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I needed to learn how to silk screen for another project I am working on so I ordered some silkscreening supplies to give this process a shot. The basic concept of silkcreening is to transfer an image to a screen which is made up of a mesh of 1000’s of tiny strings interwoven with each […]

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Well it’s been a while since my last post and my DIY CNC router machine is ‘officially’ finished, though I don’t believe that any project like this is every truly finished as there will always be upgrades and modifications. The last big things I had to do were to build a place to put my […]

Continue Reading Part 12 : DIY CNC : Finished – But is it Ever?

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted an update but I have not stopped working on the machine. I’ve done a lot of work on the machine and have even machined a few useful parts.  I built a suitable table to set the machine on top of and positioned right near the breaker box. It […]

Continue Reading Part 11 : DIY CNC : Almost Finished

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I’ve made some good progress with the DIY Router project this last weekend.  In my last update on May 4, 2011 you could see that I was working on getting the uprights mounted. Since then I’ve drilled and mounted the plates to hold the Y-axis cross beams (seen in the photos as the black plates […]

Continue Reading Part 10 : DIY CNC : Great Progress

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Assembly of the CNC Machine has been a bit slow. Most recently I mount the NHK linear rails to the table frame for movement along the X-axis of the router, mounted the linear blocks which attach to the linear cars and tie them together, and mounted the uprights for the Y-axis and temporarily placed the […]

Continue Reading Part 9 : DIY CNC : Y-Axis Construction 2

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