RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: type of mill table slides? (drawer slide CNC tips)

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the additional information and corrections!

Too bad we couldn't get permission to post drawings and text from the
original article. I'd bet there are many that would be interested. Or
maybe you could make your kit/plans available again.

I noticed a spot weld this time when I was finally able to download the pix
(I couldn't find my copies). I also saw corner gussets. I didn't know
about the fixture, 'tho.

Alan KM6VV

> Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: type of mill table slides? (drawer
> slide CNC tips)
>
> Nope, I used Accuride drawer slides for the XY axis and Johnson for the Z
> axis.
> Wow! that was really a long , long time ago. The picture Alan posted was
> not my pcb driller but one that one of my customers built from my
> plans/kit.
> The key to it's perfomance was the fiXture that I made that aligns the XY
> axis slides for spot welding them together at a perfect 90 degrees.
> I still remember converting epislon drill files to Dancam format.
> Arrggghhhh!
> I demonstrated that machine in the early 90's at the Seattle Robotic
> Society. They were impressed but not as impressed as when I demonstrated
> the wire wacker ( it CNC measured and cut wire to length.) I think it was
> because it sounded like a machine gun :)
> The other machine that got a lot of interest was when I retrofitted one of
> those cheap horizontal/vertical bandsaws from Enco. I retrofitted it so
> the vice would open under cnc control, the stock would move in, the vice
> would close, the saw motor would turn on and then the saw would feed it's
> way through the stock and then rapidly rise to clearance shutting off the
> motor then repeating the cycle as many times as the program required. It
> used a quick basic program I wrote.
>
> Dan Mauch
> low cost stepper and servo motors.
> cases for Gecko drives
> kits and assembled 3-4 axis drives
> www.camtronics-cnc.com
> www.seanet.com/~dmauch