johnm
07-21-2005, 01:03 AM
Folks -
Okay, we're crunching numbers for the purchase of a 'bot and I'm cutting and pasting dollars in Excel. I'm working on various options and need your feedback.
Some of the parts and accessories can be home-built, from what I gather. Is it reasonable that one could build or fabricate the Z-Zeroing Plate, Proximity Switches, and the Emergency Stop Button? That adds up to $325, and it doesn't look like there's much "there, there" by way of Hardware - Are there software or drivers that goes with these components? I am not "agin" spending the money, but that's *almost* airfare from the West coast to Raleigh for training, for what looks like about 20 bucks in hardware...
Okay, next question - 48" or 96". The wife and I have a 24x32 shop and have the space, sort of... The larger unit is a little big for what we expect to be using it for (mostly a HUGE 2D job cutting out trim) but want to take a larger view of things as well.... Do any of you with the 48 wish you'd gotten larger? Or are any of you with the 96" tired of walking all the way around it... You know what I mean.
Now, Additional Z travel... Can you give me some practical applications where the additional travel would be useful? I can see that if you were milling into the ends of something - table legs for example, that the additional headroom would be nice. What else? My head spins reading through all of these posts in the various categories, and the possibilities are wide ranging. We only want to buy once, and buy right, so I'd like to hear from those with more experience.
Thanks in advance for your comments.
John
Lakeport, CA
Okay, we're crunching numbers for the purchase of a 'bot and I'm cutting and pasting dollars in Excel. I'm working on various options and need your feedback.
Some of the parts and accessories can be home-built, from what I gather. Is it reasonable that one could build or fabricate the Z-Zeroing Plate, Proximity Switches, and the Emergency Stop Button? That adds up to $325, and it doesn't look like there's much "there, there" by way of Hardware - Are there software or drivers that goes with these components? I am not "agin" spending the money, but that's *almost* airfare from the West coast to Raleigh for training, for what looks like about 20 bucks in hardware...
Okay, next question - 48" or 96". The wife and I have a 24x32 shop and have the space, sort of... The larger unit is a little big for what we expect to be using it for (mostly a HUGE 2D job cutting out trim) but want to take a larger view of things as well.... Do any of you with the 48 wish you'd gotten larger? Or are any of you with the 96" tired of walking all the way around it... You know what I mean.
Now, Additional Z travel... Can you give me some practical applications where the additional travel would be useful? I can see that if you were milling into the ends of something - table legs for example, that the additional headroom would be nice. What else? My head spins reading through all of these posts in the various categories, and the possibilities are wide ranging. We only want to buy once, and buy right, so I'd like to hear from those with more experience.
Thanks in advance for your comments.
John
Lakeport, CA