CNC Progress

More sorting of pictures. This time, the CNC machine.
I've come along pretty far with this one, though I've had to stop due to funding and some more pressing projects, case in point the Bean's nursery. That should get finished this weekend and pay day on Tuesday, so I'm hoping to get it fully operational this week coming up.

This machine needs to run just well enough to cut the next machine. There is only a certain mark of  accuracy that I can achieve by hand. With each generation of machine cut by a more accurate machine the total end point accuracy increases exponentially.

The next machine will be of a completely different design, much simpler and cutting the parts count by more than half. The simplicity of the next design will enable them to be rapidly reproduced.

You can get an idea of the size and scale of the machine.

 Here are the motors roughly installed, the cutting bed has yet to be put in.

The cutting bed put in place and a pencil installed for testing in lieu of the Z axis.

A surplus equipment rack from work along with some salvaged equipment. Total cost on all of it. Zero dollars.

 This the the Y carriage bearing block.

Here you can see the Y axis moving freely.

That's all I have for now, more to come soon !