Hello!
I would love to hear from anyone who is using their machines for regular nested cabinet work or similar. I'm a Mechanical Engineer and I work in marine and factory automation. One of my side projects/hobbies is making toys and I built a 6' by 12' router last year for this. It's been working for about 20 hrs per week for about a year without any major hiccups.
So when my friend asked me if I could help automate his countertop/cabinet business with CNC capability I jumped on it. I'm going to build him a 6' by 16' machine that he can use for his wood/corian/etc countertops and to take in-house and external nested cabinet jobs and some sign work. - at least, thats the current idea. :o
I think on a machine like this one, vacuum hold down is probably unrealistic. I imagine it would need at least 30 or 40 Hp vac pump. On my machine, I use screws/tabs and it works great for what I do (its a combo of large and very small cutouts) - there's no vacuum hold down.
I want to reassure my friend that tabs are a viable option, even for production cabinets as I am convinced of this. But tyhen again, I've only done small cabinet jobs on my machine. It worked great (I think), but I want your opinions before I move ahead. Is anyone here volume-producing nested cabinet cut outs without vacuum hold down?
Thanks for reading such a long pre-amble. I appreciate your time and thoughts!
I hope to hear from many of you..
I would love to hear from anyone who is using their machines for regular nested cabinet work or similar. I'm a Mechanical Engineer and I work in marine and factory automation. One of my side projects/hobbies is making toys and I built a 6' by 12' router last year for this. It's been working for about 20 hrs per week for about a year without any major hiccups.
So when my friend asked me if I could help automate his countertop/cabinet business with CNC capability I jumped on it. I'm going to build him a 6' by 16' machine that he can use for his wood/corian/etc countertops and to take in-house and external nested cabinet jobs and some sign work. - at least, thats the current idea. :o
I think on a machine like this one, vacuum hold down is probably unrealistic. I imagine it would need at least 30 or 40 Hp vac pump. On my machine, I use screws/tabs and it works great for what I do (its a combo of large and very small cutouts) - there's no vacuum hold down.
I want to reassure my friend that tabs are a viable option, even for production cabinets as I am convinced of this. But tyhen again, I've only done small cabinet jobs on my machine. It worked great (I think), but I want your opinions before I move ahead. Is anyone here volume-producing nested cabinet cut outs without vacuum hold down?
Thanks for reading such a long pre-amble. I appreciate your time and thoughts!
I hope to hear from many of you..