What kind of airplane is that? Is it experimental? I'm jus curious because there isn't much opportunity to make and install your own parts unless the aircraft is experimental. It definitely looks much nicer than the previous version.
Looks great. Have you checked it for squareness yet?Made a cylindrical square on the new lathe to test out the headstock alignment. Came out damn near perfect. Couldn't measure any inconsistency in the diameter with two different mics. Big improvement over the old chattering Atlas 12".
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It will do something to metal! With a little help... First of all, you can use it to do your layout with dykem. Dykem burns off easily with laser light. I've done it on an older, low power CO2 laser at a shop where I used to work. It worked great.This one has a 2.5W laser and around an A3 operating envelope.
I had been slowly collecting components to build something similar with the intention of building an XY gantry and being able to swap between a laser, router and possibly a plasma cutter torch for the actual tool. But then I saw this kit on special so decided to go that way as this playing around with CNC is all new to me so is probably easier to start with something that should work first (and we can Frankenstein it later and expand).
http://www.banggood.com/2500mW-A3-3...re-CNC-Printer-Assembling-Kits-p-1003863.html
2.5W should allow me to engraver (well burn) wood and plastic and cut paper, foam and leather. Wont do anything to metal - you need to go to 50W CO2 lasers for that sort of thing, But I do hope to have some nice tool control foam inserts for my cabinet drawers in the my near future.
Will start a thread with the assembly and trial operation.