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by crcarlson 5742 days ago
I built two CNC machines. The first one essentially from scratch components: bearings, plates and beams. And a second higher performance machine by converting a manual machine to servo control. Hardware is fun.
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That is a nice machine. I have been trying to convince myself that if I want to build a custom set of cabinets that should build a 4x8 router to make the whole job easier :)

Yes my web page is lame and written by hand 7 years ago, but it does have a few pics.

http://www.crcarlson.com/Personal/cnc1/cnc1.html

http://www.crcarlson.com/Personal/cnc2/cnc2.html

Those are very slick little machines that you've built there.

I've been busy converting this one off-and-on for the last two years, it's going so slow because the machine is in a warehouse almost 200 miles from here:

http://pics.ww.com/v/jacques/machines/dscf1225.jpg.html

But it's actually getting there, just a few more wires and it will be completely modernized.