We made a sweet barrel prop for Halloween a couple of years ago and thought it was worthy of another look this year, shortened up in length a bit. Actually the 4 original videos were a hour long and now fit into a 10 minute video seen here. Wow Wee- the power of editing Original […]

This is some extra footage of preparing the CNC machine for first use. This outlines how we flatten our CNC table using VCarve Pro to design the pocket to be cut by Mach3. Product Link: http://www.vectric.com/products/vcarve.htm How I Level a CNC Table to Flatten – Cutting Room Floor Leveling A CNC Table The Guru Brew […]

Started the day off by getting organized with the small inventory of steel bolts and fastener storage. Proceed to work-ready the JGRO homemade CNC router. Fitted a self designed (polycarbonate) dust skirt and shoe to machine using PVC and bolts. Magnets were used to hold dust skirt to router head. Several vacuum tubes were put […]

Lots of work done to the home built CNC router machine in this video. We selected a router and speed control from Harbor freight. Built a homemade mount using wood, aluminum angle and plexiglass. Mr Hoover gave up it’s vac hose for the cause and I built a redneck shelf from a dead laptop. Almost […]

Today was spent installing power receptacles for the CNC machines that the spindle (Router) and Vacuums will plug into for AC power with a remote switch for quick emergency shutdown on each. Time was also spent installing dedicated grounding lines to each of the stepper motors to the metal home built controller case. It is […]