RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Don't give up!!!

Ballendo,

Thanks for the post. This is a subject I keep harping on. Yes CNC is an
expensive hobby, but we (the royal collective we) often tech it to death
and make it far more difficult and expensive than it has to be. I think
it is very important to step back and look at the desired outcome. If
the goal is to make a machine that can cut balsa and hold a tolerance of
say .020" than there are some very low cost approaches to getting the
job done. As you mention there are low cost designs that do work and you
can cut balsa just fine with a small high speed bit. Not everything
needs to be designed to hold micron accuracy.

Tim
[Denver, CO]
Sherline products at Deep Discount
Mach1 & DeskCNC with credit card ordering
www.KTMarketing.com/Sherline

> -----Original Message-----
> Hello,
>
> Depends on what you're looking to do. And what you're WILLING to do
> to get there...
>
> So maybe you can't get a laser CNC setup for 300 bucks? You CAN get a
> balsa CAPABLE setup for 300 bucks (Dave rigotti, and John Kleinbauer
> come to mind, as well as Luberth, and others).
>
> So build one of these. Maybe you can sell some model balsa "kits" to
> others to finance the 500 more bucks you'll need to put a laser on
> Johns "Scrappy", or pipe dream, or daves Hobby CNC... Yeah, if you're
> willing to look, and learn, these prices ARE do-able. been there.
> Done that.
>
> It's pretty easy to get caught up in the "professional" side of
> looking at cnc, and forget that the hobby side doesn't HAVE to
> cost "thousands"...
>
> Good luck,
>
> Ballendo
>
> P.S. Did anyone contact mr. linear to find out where he got his diode?
>