Castor for CNC
I’ve been making a castor for my cardboard cutter (to keep the material against the mill table). The cutting always tries to lift the material. Check out this marble castor!…
Read moreBody for a small CNC
I’ve been looking at the Zen which is made of HD Polyethylene. I’m not sure how rigid that thing is but the idea seems inexpensive. Plus the parts can easily…
Read moreMakergear Extruder Batch 5
Yesterday I finally started assembling my extruder that will be mounted on one of my mills. It’s uses a stepper with a gear box to control flow rather than a…
Read morePlastruder arrived!
Wohoo! My makergear plastruder arrived. It came to about 260.00 (that includes a bit of filament to get started). I also had to pay about 35 bucks at the border.…
Read moreMarauder Extruder/Mill
I realize that it’s pretty involved to make even a simple CNC mill for cutting plastics and wood. There are nice open source projects such as the Mantis. But for…
Read moreMakerbot (Thing-o-matic)
I want a Makerbot Cupcake or a RepRap. Now that I have a CNC mill, I think it would be easier to just add a plastic extruder to it. Andrew…
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