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Sawing, drilling, threading - manually!

A project log for Self replicating CNC for 194 (or more) countries

Creating a design for a CNC that is easy to replicate and suitable for diverse drives.

norbert-heinzNorbert Heinz 08/22/2016 at 14:480 Comments

The automation section of this year's HackadayPrize is over, but mechanical work on my CNC continues.

In endless hours I have cut square tubes (16 pieces 20x20x2x2000mm) for the framework:

After drilling, threading and finally putting some parts together, it looks like this:

I need a larger photo studio...

Next thing to be done is adding cross bars for higher stiffness of the base frame (CNC machines never can be stiff enough) as shown in the latest OpenSCAD file:

I am waiting for the flat iron bars to arrive...

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