Looks like a nice clean setup! I took a look at http://www.8020.net/ earlier in the game and decided to weld my setup. The difference for the large frame was like $400 to $4000 so I decided to buy steel and skip the profiles. But then... the machine is substantially larger than yours. Rainer
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Rob Jansen<[email protected]> wrote: > Andy Pugh wrote: >> 2009/6/10 Rainer Schmidt <[email protected]>: >> >> >>> I just visited an exhibition in NYC in the Javits Center and >>> Bosch/Rexroth were there as well. Nice components! And with the >>> economy right now... they even talk to the smaller guys. >>> >> >> Handy stuff indeed, I used it for the case of my CNC controller > > There are tons of ways using this stuff. And not just the Bosch profiles > - there are other brands out there with cheaper stuff using different > fasteners. > My machine is built up using 80x80mm extra strong profiles. I found a > local shop selling this stuff and they even cut the stuff with a 0.1mm > accuracy and exactly square. > On youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRhcYF9Vfbk) there is a short > movie showing the first movements of my machine with a ball pen attached. > > Just to give you an idea: the gantry is 1.20m wide built using 2 80x80 > extra strong profiles. After mounting both profiles on one endplate I > could just drop in the bolt on the other side without having to force > the profiles into place. > > Nowadays the machine looks a bit different; there is a 15mm alu plate on > top of the profiles with a 20mm T-nut profile screwed on top and the pen > is replaced with a 2 kW 18,000 rpm spindle to do some more serious stuff. > > Rob > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- _________________________________ Rainer M. Schmidt Complex Consulting LLC [email protected] Mob (646)-275-0296 VoIP (646)-233-1002 FAX (646)-435-9216 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
