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• candeira 16y ago
  When you feel you really need a home router, you will have a Biesse Rover you can use to make the parts for your project. That's a real luxury! The reason I posted the Mantis and not the one from buildyourcnc.com is that the Mantis is student-grade: simple, cheap as hell, small volume (not only working volume, but also external envelope) and easy to align by design. You could probably build it using only manual tools.
• vessenes 16y ago
  I couldn't tell from the site if the machine could be used for machining something other than circuit boards; you seem to have experience here, can you comment about it? I would certainly love to have one of these guys in my shop. Just don't need circuit boards cut.
  • Keyframe 16y ago
    You can cut a lot of stuff with 3-axis gantry machine. I use it to cut spearguns of my own design for example, It's a bit tricky to make a precise machine with a lot of Z-depth though, but you can turn around the material and mill from both sides (double the depth in that case). Pretty much anything can be done on that machine. In hindsight, I should have maybe gone with a fourth axis too (rotational) since that would suit me more in this case.