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title: CNC router arrives
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date: 2015-04-26 13:17:05
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tags: [hardware, cnc]
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series: cnc
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After 2 months of waiting - my CNC router arrives. 8 weeks lead time
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they said - 7 weeks and 4 days it was ! Who are they ?
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[TanieCNC](http://tanie-cnc.pl/) people [CheapCNC in Polish :].
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Although it may look like they don't know how to make websites AND their
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name does not instill a lot of confidence - but hey, they certainly
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know how to weld and make precise machinery ! The size of the package
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caught me off guard, I've spent an hour disassembling the crate in full
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sun. After that I wasn't able to get it through the stairs myself,
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fortunately a friendly neighbour gave me their pair of hands. Lifting
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the machine by 2 people is okay, it's still not lightweight, but
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bearable. Putting it on the table was a different affair entirely.
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Careful not to damage anything, especially the motor assemblies - we've
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put it on a impromptu wood ramp. Using heavy duty straps, we've lifted it
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up little by little. Then some inspection - the quality is really
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superb, especially of the metal frame ! After that I got an old PC with
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Windows XP and parallel port running Mach3 software - I wanted to set it
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up as in any other shop at start. Later on I'm planning on moving to
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LinuxCNC and then gradually off parallel port on to a USB stack,
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something more like an arduino parsing gcode and driving motors instead
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of relying of the accurate timing of the PC. TODOs:
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- add an MDF bed layer on top of existing bed
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- get better clamps
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- get more router bits
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- get a vacuum attachment for the spindle
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- move to LinuxCNC
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