With prompting from Corbin I'll relate the construction of this machine. First a warning; the pictures I have are not digital so what will be shown here are "pictures of pictures" which I found hard to do without any glare. My CNC router journey started with "acquiring" 3 vacuum column tape drives (…

This is super super cool. I remember way back in the day I had a XT. I think it even had a hard drive too! Mine was never connected to a CNC though. I’d love to see some of your other builds!

Thanks for the “nod” Eric! I built that machine thinking I would get into the sign business. During that venture into entrepreneurship I discovered that I really wasn’t a salesman and getting out there and selling is very important. So just being able to build it isn’t enough. I do have quite a few …

This is a really cool nostalgia post, thanks for sharing! How far we’ve come…

Construction of my first CNC Router Table circa 1988

bcer960 April 21, 2023, 2:43pm 4

great build for a first machine. Mine was a JgRO. All MDF. Ran it for 13 years till I finally wore it out.

Ray

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Construction of my first CNC Router Table circa 1988

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