Homemade CNC Router Milling Aluminum

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The Wizard of Overall Creek

The Wizard of Overall Creek

3 жыл бұрын

Just an initial test cutting aluminum, and I'm totally happy with the results. Next test up is mild steel!
Pretty sure the machine can handle a lot more but just getting this kind of result initially tells me it's absolutely usable for framing projects with aluminum and precision locating features and connections to machine parts. Interference fits and bearing surfaces might not be in the cards, but hey, that's what I have a milling machine for.
Cut Data:
16700rpm
0.25" 3 flute helical carbide endmill (uncoated)
0.010" Depth of Cut
0.125" Width of Cut
90ipm feed rate
Machine specs at time of recording (it will likely get steppers upgraded soon):
Merlin the CNC Router
4'x8'x7"
1.5kW 24krpm spindle
Ballscrew driven
300ipm Rapids
DM556 drives
3.0A NEMA23 steppers
Powered by LinuxCNC w/ homebrew ATC (PMATC)

Пікірлер: 2
@RATZ114
@RATZ114 3 жыл бұрын
Love your machine and what you are doing with it. Demonstrates perfectly that you don't need the expensive pre-built stuff to get good results. Please keep us up to date with all your improvements.
@calphis
@calphis 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks much. As each usable component becomes refined enough to do so I'll make the designs freely available. The tool rack would be the first. It's just a router cut 3" strip of material (like MDF for example) , and uses 1/4" steel dowel pins and 3/8" compression springs. So you can make your own for less than $10 probably. With just that one part you can do semi-auto changes. The system would prompt you to tighten/loosen the collet nut only. It would auto get/put the right tools and measure the offsets. It's a lot more useful than it sounds for what you put into it. Human error like loading the wrong tool, messing up the tool offset measurement or coordinate system -- all that stuff goes away. I had a lot of workpiece (and machine time) waste from human error. So the time saved was not so much about tool changing, but in lowering program failure rate.
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