My home-made CNC router milling some aluminium
Here my home-made CNC Router is milling a scale RC helicopter tail rotor hub from a piece of 6082-T6 aluminium.
You can see me spraying spirit on the work piece occasionally for cooling. This works great for aluminium.
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This is a machine …
Great job, what is the name of this frezer and what is the price?
This is a machine that i imagine
Great job
Nice job. I fly …
Nice job. I fly helis myself and just purchased a Sherline mill for that exact purpose. Heli parts, Though I found myself routing sings for everyone…..
thank you
thank you
Hi. I have a thread …
Hi. I have a thread in the “DIY-CNC Router Table Machines” on cnczone. I can’t post a link here because Youtube is paranoid, but you’ll find i easilly if you search for my username, the same as my username here on youtube. The thread is called “Another MDF CNC router.”
hey can you show me …
hey can you show me or make a vid. how you assembled it and how you connected the electronical parts and how you programmed them if you did. im asking this cause im building my own rc heli
BTW sweet vid nice heli
cool, how about …
cool, how about showing the machine itself, and maybe other bits yourve made.
Awesome work!! …
Awesome work!! First video I’ve seen of someone using a home made CNC router for aluminium.
These are nema23 …
These are nema23 size motors with 1 Nm torque and 2,2 mH inductance.
What size stepper …
What size stepper motors do you use? I’m designing a machine now for almost this smae application. I was going with 137/in.
Thanks
This is a Kress …
This is a Kress FME1050. It’s pretty good and has a wide selection of collets available.
whats the power …
whats the power tool you are using? I was looking into making my own cnc mill, for working with aluminum, and I am wondering if a plunge router would work.. anyways, so yeah whats are you using?
It’s called red …
It’s called red spirit. A mixture of alcohol and fuchsin (for a red color).
nice, what are you …
nice, what are you using for coolant, windex?
so i have seen how …
so i have seen how easy these are to make(easy from an engineering mind) but how hard is it to get the programming and feed rate down/
what type of tool are you using? endmill?
way cool
way cool
anyone need machine …
anyone need machine parts?
u can make …
u can make keychains 4 a living!
what driver use for …
what driver use for de motors? are stepper? what model?
thanks and congratulations..
i sell milling …
i sell milling parts n blades
Just try it. It’s …
Just try it. It’s only .005″ DOC. I think you will be happy! Less heat, no galling…
Thanks, I’ll …
Thanks, I’ll experiment some more with the technique. When I mill with the 3 mm carbide end mill in the video it’s cutting 0,5 mm deep (0,02″).
6082-T6 is 50% harder than MIC-6 and twice as strong.
your feed is to …
your feed is to slow, your depth of cut is too deep, and your RPMs need to go up.
I do MIC-6 @ 80-100 IPM .005 DOC and 16,000 RPM
are you mechanical …
are you mechanical engineer.
I designed it …
I designed it around the critical parts I bought used from Ebay (the rails and screws) and built it from various materials. The table is a heavy computer desk with routed slots in it. The bridge is made from an extruded aluminium girder, side plates from aluminium sheet/MDF/aluminium sheet sandwich, and MDF wood.
I used CAD software to design it and went through several designs before I was satisfied and started building.
nice how did you …
nice how did you build it