Building a storage shed

Customer Rating: Got the machine a couple of weeks ago. It was simple to assemble. I was up and running my first piece in a couple of hours, including the time it took to download and install the software on my Vista laptop.

I cut some mdf and it worked wonderfully. But it made a dusty mess. So, it needs some sort of dust collection, especially with the computer nearby whose fans suck up the dust. I built an enclosure around it with mdf sides, a Plexiglas front and top, added a 4″ port for the dust collector and made another 4″ hole at the opposite end of the enclosure. Total cost of the enclosure and hardware was about $50. At the end of a job, I blow it out any remaining dust and shavings with the blower end of shop vac. Two unanticipated benefits of the enclosure are that (1) the servo’s and router stay pretty cool since the air is constantly flowing around them which should make them last longer, and (2) it quiets it down enough that I can work on the next program without earplugs to muffle the whining router.

Being my first experience with a cnc machine, quite a bit of experimentation with bits, feed rate, and pass depth, was needed to get as clean cuts on hardwood that I get by hand with a router.

The Vcarve software is fantastic. It is very easy to use. I thought I’d need a CAD program for design but Vcarve is fine for my CAD needs, and it’s much simpler to learn.

The controller software works but there a couple of minor annoyances. It has button controls that let you manually move the router along the axes at any of three speeds to move the router to its start point. Problem is that after you run a program, it moves very very slowly and the speed buttons don’t work. The only way I’ve found to get it to function properly after running a program is to shut it down and restart it. I emailed New Wave Automations about it and got no reply. The other annoyances probably aren’t worth mentioning.

This review is getting toolong so to summarize, the machine and software perform very nicely and I am very happy with them, especially when comparing the price of other CNC routers. Sorry I didn’t get one sooner!

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