Re: plans to fabricate a robotic arm or APC for a desktop homemade CNC mill

This group was set up to do exactly what you wanted...But it is a
long way off from being useable.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newcim/

You may be able to use "indexer LPT" from

http://www.abilitysystems.com/



Wally





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> Hi,
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> Does anyone have, or know where to find plans to fabricate a robotic
> arm or automatic pallet changer (APC) for a homemade CNC mill? What

I

> hope to do is this:
> 1. desktop CNC mill engrave on wood
> 2. robotic arm unload wood or APC1 move out to make way for APC2
> 3. robotic arm load new wood or APC2 move into desktop CNC mill
> 4. desktop CNC mill engrave on new workpiece
> 5. process 1-4 repeated.
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> If this is too difficult to fabricate, where can one purchase them?
>
> Thanks
>
> Enviromen