Re: Plans for dirt cheap etcher?

Want plans that are...open source [best way I could put it], been
over at CNCZone looking. Cash is in very short supply for me, the
$36 for the "Brute" would take 1/3 of my budget.


--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, R Rogers <rogersmach@...>
wrote:

>
> You might try this guy...
>
> http://www.crankorgan.com/
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> krashking405 <krashking405@...> wrote:
> Should have called it something other than an etcher, guess I

really

> want a small 3 axis CNC, say around 6" travel from the center in X
> or Y axis.
>
> --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Jon Elson wrote:
> >
> > krashking405 wrote:
> >
> > >Where might I find plans to make a very cheap small etcher?

Price

> > >range would probably have to be under $100US and hopefully be
> able to
> > >use surplus/scrap that I already have or can aquire.
> > >
> > >
> > The big problem is making it with no metal other than Titanium

in

> it.
> > And, no Nylon, either. Nylon crumbles within minutes after
> exposure
> > to FeCl2, and all other metals but Titanium corrode at various
> rates.
> >
> > I built an etcher entirely of Plexiglas, including the pump. It
> was a mess,
> > but it did work. The Kepro etcher I found in the trash has pretty
> > standard Little Giant pumps, but the shafts are Titanium. All

the

> rest
> > is grey PVC.
> >
> > My spray nozzle was a piece of PVC pipe with holes drilled along
> the side.
> > The Kepro machine uses one nozzle and shoots through a piece of
> > fiberglass window
> > screen.
> >
> > Jon
> >
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