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Small cnc router books and plans

Small cnc router books and plans

2004-05-05 by satchid23

Can somebody on this group give advise on "Small cnc router books and 
plans" to rout pcb boards and ocazionaly engrave a copper plate.
I would like the max size of the effective routing area to be like an 
A4 sheet.

This book should include all the areas on cnc routing. The 
mechanical, electronic, and software stuf.

I am good in metalwork and have a reasonable knoledge of electronics 
but very litle of programing.

Please, can someboddy help me?

Satchid

Re: Small cnc router books and plans

2004-05-06 by Dave Mucha

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "satchid23" <satchid@p...> 
wrote:
> Can somebody on this group give advise on "Small cnc router books 
and 
> plans" to rout pcb boards and ocazionaly engrave a copper plate.
> I would like the max size of the effective routing area to be like 
an 
> A4 sheet.
> 
> This book should include all the areas on cnc routing. The 
> mechanical, electronic, and software stuf.
> 
> I am good in metalwork and have a reasonable knoledge of 
electronics 
> but very litle of programing.
> 
> Please, can someboddy help me?
> 
> Satchid

this list offers some experiance and expertise in mechanical routing.

There is a T-Tech machine on E-bay right now, complete with software.

if it is like mine, you download the g-code from your program and it 
will do the conversion automatically.

A more home brew method is to buy John K's set of plans.  that seems 
to be the most straightforward approach.

Since each segmemnt of what you asked is well covered by seperate 
lists and seperate books it would take some reading.

Jameco has some books on steppers.

If you get John's plans, you get 90% of what you need.  and that last 
10% is won by experiance.

DAve

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