The New "What did you do with your Z today" (with off topic replies) XXV

ChaseZ

I'll pm you my PayPal.. don't want to pay no stinking fees though

killrain

I'm not paying them bloody fees either!

madwi

I want a cnc router so bad now.
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ChaseZ

That's a big *** cnc table!
I'd be happy with 24x24

Heck, I'd be happiest with only 6x6 but it has to be solid enough to mill 316L Stainless. 4 axis preferred of course, but that's a set up think probably falls outside of the DIY category to assemble off eBay parts lol

madwi

Lets think about this and come up with a sweet 5 axis milling machine

ChaseZ

I could get down with that, but I already know from talking to a supplier in the past even a small mill, or perhaps especially a small mill, will need to be extremely heavy to be stable enough to mill really hard steels like that.

So my 6"x6" table would still end up taking up half of that bedroom lol

madwi

I was just joking. I was an aerospace machinist for over a decade, I cant imagine a cnc capable of cutting steel in a bedroom or even a normal houses basement.

Everybody I know runs them in a pole barn or some other type of outbuilding. one of my old bosses had one in his garage attached to the house and he was always complaining about how much it sucked.

ChaseZ

I wouldn't even put that guys table, which I assume is for wood, in the house. His setup looked cool but the though of all the dust inside made me cringe. Even a pretty good dust collector system still blows a lot of dust around, especially if you're working with MDF. Used to hate cleaning up the shop after that stuff!

I would however tolerate a good mill in the garage no problem. Just set it and go for coffee