Re: Do Learn Build

Well said. The one I'm building will only secondarily be used on
metal, and then likely nothing harder than aluminum, brass, and
bronze. Heck, I'm thinking I can use this to make engravings for
woodblock printing and rubber stamps for an artist friend of mine.
The concept is that she gives me an ink drawing and you can figure
out the rest. Ultimately I want to teach her to use something like
CorelDraw to produce it herself and just pass the file on to me to
cut.

I've had my eye on a trim router for $50 from Harbor Freight (local to
me, about a mile away) but considering how much better quality
everything else from Enco has been so far, I think I'll see if Enco
has something similar.

Lawrence (Glaister) and I are using the same steppers, so I too am
looking for an inexpensive drive that will put out a max of 5 or 6
Amps. Steppers are 4.7A 1.xV Unipolar, or driven Bipolar I think it
works out to 3.3A. I'm fairly handy with a soldering iron and a slide
rule, but for a first project I may just build a 5804 based controller
and add some power MOSFETs and power resistors.

Steve "Newbie" Greenfield

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com, "Tim Goldstein" <timg@k...> wrote:
> Just because a topic is not of personal interest is not reason to
discourage
> the discussion if it is along the lines of the groups scope.
Discussing CNC
> wood working is probably of far more interest to most than
digitizers they
> will never build or buy. If you notice the name of the group it does
not say
> that it is only for CNC in metal.
-snip-
> > Hope this thread (about woodworking) doesn't last long...but you
> > can do just
> > as accurate work on the router table sans CNC if you have the
right
> > accessories.