This is one of the immaculately constructed mini-routers that Widgitmaster from CNCZone has been selling on eBay. The first thing done with this router was to convert it to CNC and then make it portable.
This little router has 8″ of X travel, 4″ of Y travel, and just under 2″ of Z travel.
Mike sketched out some plans of a sheet metal brake and then built a great looking tool.
Many times we skip right over the sketching step and a mighty important step at that. This goes to show, you don’t have to make a set of cad drawings in order to record an idea in your head.
These plans were drawn up by Ben’s custom art out of the Netherlands. I found them on a car building website, which the person who posted it found them on a metalworking site, which has lost much of it’s previous content due to server failure with no data backup. So, in the interest of keeping this together – here is a complete posting of the plans to build your own Stretcher and/or Shrinker. Enjoy!
This lathe is another Gingery based creation. The framework is made of 1″ x 1″ square tubing and the bed is 3″ x 3″ x 1/4″ steel tubing.
Anyone that does metalworking will sooner or later benefit from having their own foundry. Melt down old metal and start casting your new creations. This is a very rewarding project, most people with a home foundry build it themselves. This particular build is one of the nicer ones in that it is 1.) Built out of stainless steel and 2.) It tilts for pouring molten metal into a mold.
What a great idea, a tachometer for your mini lathe! This project started with an idea to wrap a piece of paper, bearing evenly spaced markings (specifically, numbers), around the chuck. When the chuck was turning at just the right speed, the numbers would appear still. Using different numbers at different spacing, you could directly read various speeds.
This Jet bandsaw has quite a few improvements that would make any brand 4×6 a bit nicer. The one modification that stands out is the replacement table. It has been replaced with a 12″ x 12″ x ½” aluminum table held to the saw through
counter-bored holes, using 2, ¼-20, cap-head screws. The owner used an F drill & ⅜” end mill to achieve close-tolerance, counter-bored holes.
You can buy a router table in a store for your Dremel tool – but what fun would that be? This is a very nice how-to on building a Router/Shaper table for using with a Dremel. In this article you will find how to make use of some plywood to make a table insert and MDF for the table, which will turn that moto tool into the router you always wanted. Well, that maybe is a stretch – but it certainly will get you started making sawdust.
It would be hard to disagree that the invention of the Dremel tool has proved to be an amazing tool. As like all other things on this site, we like to highlight something that is great and show how people have adapted to make it greater. The creator of this mod wanted the ability to adjust the speed of the dremel without taking his hands off a workpiece. This lead to the idea of coming up with a foot controlled speed regulator for the Dremel.
CNC Milling Machine
Here is a Harbor Freight 47158 Micro-Mill that has been converted into a CNC controlled mill. Several parts for this conversion were made on another (manual) mill. Other parts needed were sourced from McMaster-Carr. This setup is sporting a homemade coolant system and a low-cost Home/Limit switch system using Hall-Effect sensors (Digikey part # DN6848-ND).
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