What shall you do with that? What ever happened with G-man's? http://www.skibuilders.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1396&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=cnc+machine&start=0 It's main use will be snowboard building, so making cores, templates, molds, cutting bases (maybe fibreglass). ...

110 is just the total length. cutting area will be about 82cm

Thanks guys! @COSurfer: sure I read all the links you suggested! Thing is, I can get most of the parts like the steel and linear rails (Igus Drylin W type) for free. Buying a kit would be nice, but much more expensive. Could you do me a favor and measure the dimensions of your gantry beam? @OAC: I k...

Well, I might be building a CNC router over the next year and I'm currently in the process of making some design choices. Here's a couple of renders (sorry for the bad quality, the Rhino renderer takes some getting used to): http://www.bilder-hochladen.net/files/big/5ebj-23.jpg http://www.bilder-hoc...

pillow block bearing

cool video!
may i ask where you buy your fibreglass/carbon fabric?

that last design is looking really good! using full wood for the archs is deinitely the way to go. i guess you could do well even without choosing hardwood. for our base layers (the pink boards) we use 27mm formboard, which basically is a three layer plywood. http://holzco-doka.ch.celsius.ch-meta.ne...

twizzstyle wrote:(I should probably make some skis at some point instead of making tools...)

hahaha, i keep thinking that all the time! drawing up a cnc-mill in cad as i type

cheers. seems like i've been the only one to address that issue in my press design. i think it just wasn't that obvious until the double wides popped up. maybe the other cloth press guys could chime in on that topic? have a look at this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4AMjXalupo at about 1:17...

your hose is another concern i have. actually i would make the press a little narrower than your flat hose so the hose does bulge out the cordura. this way your wood structure is supported by the hose across the whole press width. otherwise i think your structure would bend along the hose (the shopv...

i totally agree with alex13. i thought about doing a design similar to yours, but finally decided against it for the above mentioned reasons. we figured that using boards in a direction they have more strength in would be better even if we couldn't get that big of an ark out of it without making it ...

looking good! you had the exact same idea that we had for the cat track works really well!

@OAC: haha, nope no autofeeder. what we have is a 500kg steel monster from the 1960ies. sniped it on a local classified for about 300 Eur! @shopvac: i wouldn't do the profiling with our bandsaw. yes, it is pretty accurate indeed, but setting up the fence that well is a pain in the you know where ;) ...

since you're doing full wood cores you could try a white stain. that should leave the wood grain visible, but will make the whole core white.

for resawing "the bigger the better" is the way to go. we recently bought a bandsaw with 800mm wheel diameter, which allows us to use a special resawing blade thats 1mm thick, 32mm wide and has 1.3tpi hook teeth (less tpi give you a pretty rough finish not suited for veneer resawing, but l...