Case Studies

VMC

http://webpages.charter.net/bengvall/emc/emcconversion.html Dave Engvall's Mazak conversion

Mills

[Stuart Stevenson's G&L Horizontal Boring MIll]

[Stuart Stevenson's Dah-Lih]

jlmjvm's bridgeport using steppers with encoders

Mini Mills

[chr0n1c's homebrew mini cnc mill]

http://www.geocities.com/ddfalck2002/halmayshop.html

[Chris Radek's MaxNC retrofit and improvements]

Weyland's RF31 retro-fit

[Opti BF20 with steppers]

[Lerneaen Hydra's Opti BF20 retrofit with steppers]

[xemet's desktop CNC (Proxxon MF70)]

[X3 Benchtop Conversion]

Lathes

[Lerneaen Hydra's Emco compact 5 retrofit]

[Kirk Wallace's Hardinge HNC with tool turret]

Lasers

Micges Laser 2.1m x 1.3m, 2,5d laser

Micges Laser 2 2m rotation laser

Plasma

Robin Szemeti's plasma 2.5 x 1.25m plasma cutter

[Jarl & Carl 2.5m x 6.5m plasma cutter]

John Thornton's [Portable Plasma Cutter]

Routers

[Micges Table Mill]

Les Watts' router a really nice big servo-driven router

Robin Szemeti's router cheap and cheerful 3 axis router for signmaking.

[Nathan's router] a DIY 3-axis wooden router

Grinders

Weird kinematics

Alex Joni's toy - a small cable tripod that proves emc2 kinematics working

Koppi's toy - a bipod that proves emc2 kinematics working

[CNC Inverted Cable Tripod] (using kins to fly a ghost around the yard!)

[dave anderson's small cable hexapod] and till franitza's hexaglide model

a [a thread on hexapod designs] that repeatedly mentions LinuxCNC?, although nobody has actually built anything, the slackers

Components

[Hooking up a jogwheel]

Other

[Enhanced Machine Controller Antenna Range (EMCAR)]

Dewey Garrett's [Ornamental Turning Engine]

EMC Installations in progress

VMC

MazakRetro notes on the retrofit of a Mazak V machining center

Mills

Michael Cormack's [Jet JVM-830 CNC Conversion]

Kirk Wallace's [Shizuoka ST-N mill conversion]

Plasma

See also the Videos page

To Add your machine to this page follow these [Basic Steps]

Link Broken http://members.optusnet.com.au/~cncmill/cnc.html Andrew Garths 3 Axis CNC mill (testing in progress)