Mobilizing a CNC Router

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Robert Cowan

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@Moakmeister 3 ай бұрын

Yoooo Robert, I’m super glad to see that you’re still happy and thriving. I wish you the best, friend.

@brettturnage533 4 ай бұрын

Glad to see you using the Tormach again. I have those casters on my CNC mill’s stand. Made moving it into place super easy and when on super stable.

@Marcus_Caius 4 ай бұрын

Can't wait to see the result. Good luck!

@75keg75 4 ай бұрын

2:53 those are fancy. The others I’ve seen have a foot and castor that you drop down with a foot press. More for quick moving I guess, but way more bulky. This style are a lot nicer as way more compact. the retractable ratchet is good too.

@RobertCowanDIY 4 ай бұрын

I have 4 sets of those drop-down ones. They're awful with any amount of weight. The problem is they put a LOT of side load right on the stem of the caster and cantilever the load away from the mount. They're good for small workbenches and tools, but anything 'serious', they aren't worth the trouble.

@aserta 4 ай бұрын

4:03 FYI, you can change the stem. Just take the existing bolt or stem out, be it just removing it (careful to not lose the balls) or cutting it off, drill the holes to the proper size using a jig (for accuracy and concentricity) and then adding an extra smaller washer up top to make up for the lost strength (as they do have that bent profile for a reason). I've modded a similar set (the white and red ones) and it worked really nice. For the drill out, i made a jig that picks up on the wheel's stem for the base with the foot fully backed out so that the base rests on the jig with its frame, not the foot and for the hex washer i just cut a pocket hole in a piece of HDF. Used grade 8 bolts because i had them. For my wheels, i had to grind the hex head by about ~2 mm to fit past the mechanism. Dunno if this ones are the same.

@aserta 4 ай бұрын

My CNC is also movable as it sometimes has to go into storage. Because it has to travel over rough terrain to its connex box, i built a wheeled "table" for it. Basically, two sheets of 1.5 cm tego with a zig-zag structure inside made from 1mm thick 2 cm wide flat stock that's bolted on the tego sheets through holes in the tego that correspond the dip opposite to the ones that fit on that face. The zig-zag braces inside are custom bent so they fit for spacing between sheets and they're both longitudinal and perpendicular to it. When i tested it, i rested about 600 kilos from the sandwich, with it held under the twines of my loader over an edge at one third of its length. I had less than 1.4 cm of deflection, with six wheels, that's basically zero in the real world when the CNC (same as the on in the video) is bolted on top. Finished it in early 23 and it's already had quite a few trips so far with no "damage" up top. It's actually so good that i can park it on two paint dots with the "front" wheels and it's always level. Zero setup required once it's parked back in its home. Probably one of my best mods i've made for the CNC so far outside the receptable ports for power, computer, and vacuum this whole thing slides in once home. The fact that i can move it to clean in the area post projects alone, is life changing vs previous iterations where i would have to bend about and fish pieces and vacuum around it etc. The only annoying thing, there's no tego sheets (at least not where i could easily get them) that fit the footprint of this CNC perfectly, so i had to make it out of 4 sheets of tego, therefore, the whole project + the CNC bent zig-zag spacers wasn't easy on the pocket. Still would do it, but yeah... one of those projects.

@The_Chillguy7 4 ай бұрын

Cool

@georgemichalopoulos5169 4 ай бұрын

I feel my workshop keeps me off drugs too!

@OriginalJetForMe 4 ай бұрын

Even better than having the CNC do work while you’re doing other work in a part is having it do all the work. It’s very good at drilling and even tapping. Not sure why you didn’t do it all on the machine.

@RobertCowanDIY 4 ай бұрын

If I was doing more than a dozen of these, I would have. BUT tapping can be tricky to setup, especially on the 440. It can only do thread milling. With the cycle time, I was able to drill and tap when it was running, no problem.

@ganeshakalburgi2003 4 ай бұрын

Nice

@talbech 4 ай бұрын

I have one word.. forklift 😅 I leave all my stuff on the ground, but modify it so I can easily move it with my little 1,5 ton forklift.

@thefekete 4 ай бұрын

So no floor jack and jack stands? Anyways, super jealous... nice toys and nice shoes for them too ;)

@jman51 4 ай бұрын

Any issues with flexing the table/axes while you jack up one leg at a time? Haven’t used an avid so not sure how things work. Those casters are nice!

@ChristianCarr-o4e Ай бұрын

After a couple months how does it work? Have you had any issues knocking the table out of square (spindle out of tram) moving it on the casters ? Looking to get an avid with very very limited space and i feel like your video might be my solution.

@RobertCowanDIY Ай бұрын

I haven't used it much, but that's not an issue. They're quite solid when in place and adjusted. You'd want to re-level and potentially tram after moving though. It's more for moving it occasionally, not necessarily for 'putting it away' after each use.

@_IanOfEarth 4 ай бұрын

Robert doesn't know about smaller-izer drill bits?! They work great to shrink holes, unfortunately you can only use them once because the thermodynamics of the situation means there's a small-grade atomic detonation when it happens.