Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] What's the fastest, cheapest way to build a CNC router for wood only

That's funny how that works, isn't it! I've submitted reviews on
different books that point out defects and issues, and the reviews have
all been ignored, to the best of my knowledge. It looks like they only
post the positive comments.
Mike Wood, Cincinnati

Alex Holden wrote:

>Blue wrote:
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>>Buy a book called "CNC Robotics" by Geoff Williams ISBN 0-07-141828-8, the
>>best $34.95 I have spent in a long time.
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>Be sure to read the amazon.com reviews first. I bought it on
>amazon.co.uk where there were no reviews listed so I decided to take a
>risk and was pretty disappointed with it. If you want to follow a
>detailed, and in places rather patronising, set of instructions for
>building a DIY cartesian (gantry style) CNC router it's not too bad. But
>even then it has some padding (50 pages of manufacturers datasheets for
>stepper motor controller chips and a chapter on etching your own PCBs)
>and some weird unjustified design choices (eg. the slides used in the
>design are salvaged from a rare professional camera). If you want to
>build any other kind of CNC machine it isn't really very useful.
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>BTW I submitted my own fairly negative review to amazon.co.uk and they
>have silently ignored it...
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