Homemade CNC:I looked at a bunch of designs and decided to try a fairly simple 3 axis machine as my first effort. The idea was to use a Dremel tool for the cutting head and use the machine to engrave aluminum front panels for my guitar amps. As it turned out the machine isn't accurate or rigid enough for that. A dremel just has too much slop in the bearings for accurate machining. The machine will do a reasonable job machining soft materials like plastic and soft woods, and it does quite a good job of plotting PCBs. I haven't tried drilling PCBs yet but I'm pretty sure it'll handle that too.
I found a couple of old Datasouth printer chassis at a computer surplus place and the printhead mechanism supplied the linear bearings and 1/2" hardened rods for the axes. I used the rods as is for the X and Y axes so they are quite long - about 18". I discovered after building the machine that the rods will bend under load and the accuracy of the machine suffers as a result. OK for plotting but machining requires very stiff axes.
The rest of the machine is made from 3/8" and 3/4" MDF - its easy to work with, quite stiff and very stable. I have a few rough sketches of this machine but its very specific to the Datasouth parts so there's not much point in reproducing them here.
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