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Offline Robotboy86Topic starter

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Home made CNC's are cool! :P
« on: August 08, 2007, 06:35:57 PM »
I was just googling them, there pretty awesome.  Wish I had money to build one to cut HPDE, would make life SO easy lol..


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Re: Home made CNC's are cool! :P
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2007, 09:28:57 PM »
My friend actually has one... or will. He has the mini mill, and has ordered the components necessary to make it a 2.5 degree cnc (manual z direction apparently....).

For the type of stuff a lot of us do here aka, working with plastics, this device seems like it would be awesome to have.
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Re: Home made CNC's are cool! :P
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2007, 03:31:57 AM »
You could get stuff custom laser cut. Its reasonably cheap and quick.

Try this:
http://www.societyofrobots.com/robot_parts_list_manufacturing.shtml

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Re: Home made CNC's are cool! :P
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2007, 03:53:32 PM »
ya I forgot about that stuff..

That would be super useful after I build a prototype with HDPE, if I like it and want it stronger/cleaner.. I could do that.


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