Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] PCB Mill (Was Re: small stuff (listgoals/aims/results?))

I am not the original poster, but answer number 1
should be "Dremel"

http://www.dremel.com/html/home_fr.html

hope that helps,
Mike

torquemada40223@... wrote:

>
> --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "Kerry" <kez@w...> wrote:
> > Since joining this group I have built a wooden CNC engraving machine
> > from old printers (motors guides and transistors for the drives),
> > three pic chips, draw slides, dermal, threaded rod, and mdf. I use
> it
> > to make circuit boards for electronic projects. It cost £106 to
> build
> > including the dermal and the home made stepper controllers.
>
> That sounds like the machine I've been planning to build! I've been
> wanting a PCB mill, so I've accumulated a bunch of stuff to base it
> on:
> MDF, threaded rod, ball-bearing drawer slides, dremel tool, stepper
> motors from some old electronic gizmos (scanner, plotter, laser
> printer), etc.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1) What is this 'dermal' you mention?
> 2) How good is the repeatability of your machine? (One of the reasons
> I've not gotten very far on the machine is that I worry that the
> resulting machine might not be accurate enough for making simple
> printed circuit boards.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --marco
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