Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Surface Plate base
Posted by
Bertho Boman
on 2000-04-08 22:13:16 UTC
It has been on my "Thinking List" for a long time. I have actually worked
on several monster lasers that use about 4 x 5 x 1' surface plates as a
base and then big granite columns. It would be a fun project to make a
CNC mill starting with two surface plates mounted 90 degrees to each other.
Bertho
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Dan Falck wrote:
on several monster lasers that use about 4 x 5 x 1' surface plates as a
base and then big granite columns. It would be a fun project to make a
CNC mill starting with two surface plates mounted 90 degrees to each other.
Bertho
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Dan Falck wrote:
> On another note... It's funny that all this controversy about stone came up
> because I showed some mother of pearl being engraved. A few other list
> members had been talking about using granite as a machine base for a small
> cnc about one month ago. We were actually thinking about all those cheap
> surface plates that Enco sells. Has anyone in this group used a surface
> plate as a base for their machine yet?
>
> Dan