Reply To: ‘What LatheXXXXX sorry 3D Printer should I buy’

[Colin LLoydParticipant @colinlloyd53450]

Posted by XD 351 on 02/01/2018 19:22:16:

Colin ,Joseph and Neil thanls for the reples !

Colin , i have just had a look at those engravers and for around $700 au they would do 99 % of what i will ever need which is mostly pc boards and plastic lables do you think they are capable enough to make brass name plates using a small 1.5 a- 2mm end mill?

With the router i was thinking more along the lines of being able to machine holes in plastic and alloy up to 2mm thick for plastic and 1 mm for alloy to make front panels for some projects and carving out recesses in timber engine mounting boards etc , i currently do all this on my mill so not something i'm dsperate for !

Ian.

Hi Ian, – yes they will easily do PC boards and brass name plates – not sure about the plastic lables – depends on how hard it is – the tool may tend to melt lesser plastics. Just to show the capability of these machines, see attached "dragon" engraved on mild steel plate and a scroll-saw picture with a name label in stainless steel made for a Danish friend's son (Bjorn). I went against my previous recommendation to start off simple with the "dragon" this was one of my first attempts. I'm currently trying to do copies of old-time engravings with interrupted horizontal lines defining the image – the problem I have is trying to get the G-code to just do a single line rather than the outline of the line – this is more a design problem rather than a CNC machine problem.

Colin