Building a CNC Router and Plasma Machine! 

Spokesman from the company did an excellent job explaining everything and selling the product (w/o seeming like he was "selling"). Made me want it! nice job.

Drew knows his stuff. Says a lot about the capabilities of Pro Plasma and CNC Router Parts as a company.

He's a great technical sales-man. Easy to watch. I'm rubbish on camera; so am very impressed!

I have the CNC Router Parts 48x24 Pro machine with the spindle and couldn't be happier. The CNC Router Parts folks are very helpful and have answered all of my questions...even the dumb rookie questions.

This guy knows his stuff. Impressive the amount and detail of considerations that go into such a machine!

Man this cnc guy really knows his stuff..... i was a lil unsure about the mdf stuff but to seemlessly switch to talking about metal (my thing) very impressive....... there's some super smart people on this planet...

I had to watch 4 Ads to be able to watch this ad !!

Drew seems incredibly professional and knowledgeable. Give him a promotion.

Sweet multi-aspect gadget. Frank leads a charmed life.

You had me at "plasma" …but more seriously, seeing the capability of such efficient manufacturing is awesome. It's very inspiring! I could even see a future version that will be able to place its own plastic nails after recognizing where on the material was safe to place them. Next step: machine orders its own supplies after you tell it what you want it to make… I love it!

Building, its a professionally built machine, when i watch these young blokes do things like this and the knowledge they have compared to me is that i feel like i am living in the bronze age in comparison.

I want one for my everlast plasma cutter! The fact it can route too is an added bonus.

Its a beautiful piece of kit thats for sure.

It’s a really nice way to understanding how your tool works! And it’s fun to build stuff...

Hey that's cool, this CNC company is only about 30 minutes away from me. Well done, Drew from North Bend, cool job you have. Doing the name proud.

Great questions and Drew was excellent at explaining. Thanks guys

Thanks for the video. It will help me build my own.

Upward/downward force due to pitch of bit must always be taken into account when finishing or removing material. Really cool that material variance and end mill pitch/profile has been taken into account.

This is what I want for Christmas. I have been a good boy.

OMG ,I just noticed the fridge ,love it !

Don't know if Frank names his tools and machines, but if he does he should totally call this one Captain Plasma.

I like the idea of combining the plasma with the router. However, anyone doing so would want to pay real close attention when using the plasma after the router. One of those sparks into any sawdust around the shop can light it up. A spark can sit there for a period of time before bursting to flame in sawdust. Make certain that your shop is spotless beforehand. I like this machine. It seems to be well worth considering for our operation.

Would love the first project coming out of Franks shop

By far my favorite Tested video! So excited to see this develop!!

I am such a geek! I have watched this twice, it's exactly how I want to set mine up. Thanks for sharing!!

I drooled through this entire video. 🤤 If I win the lottery that Pro Series CNC dual router & plasma cutter machine will be the first tool I buy. 🤑

Looks like a well designed machine. A CNC router is a wonderful tool to have. Such a pleasure to watch your imagination come to reality.

Frank looks so happy :D

All in all, one of the best educational videos I've seen on youtube or anywhere else for that matter, you guys covered all the questions I had and wondered about. Only bummer for you is others will surely take this video and use it as a template, just remember that saying about imitation and flattery. Peace

26:14 Ayy FIRST Robotics. It’s cool that I’m starting to hear it mentioned more and more in places that aren’t directly involved

Worth the investment - CNC Routers, even though initially expensive, can pay for themselves just like any other tool, it just might take a little longer. You can also make multiples of some amazing things. You can make 50 of something and it doesn't burn you out like it would if you were camped out at your band-saw for a week.

Amigo, eu liguei minha corte plasma na minha cnc com arduino e a plasma gerou uma interferencia nos motores fazendo com que eles se movessem sem comandos e isso acabou fazendo o arduino nao funcionar mais. Voce sabe me dizer o que pode ser?

Thank you for the helpful video.

best video yet on cnc I have watched. what will a machine like this cost?

thats a nice setup nice work on the gear drive

Thanks, very interesting and in depth look you dont normally get!

What a great video!!!

Really interesting video! Thanks for showing the process!

In my opinion for setup of squaring and truing the machine. A dial test indicator would be more efficient and accurate then cutting and measuring. And also less material waste.

I used to work for a major Japanese CNC mfg for machining, mainly metal. I have also worked with many other industrial CNC machines during my lengthy career. Every single one of them, considered the longitudinal direction, the X-axis. What they are calling the gantry, would be the Y-Axis. It's kind of tomAto tomato, but it just seems strange that these and some other router machines have X and Y swapped - VS the machining world. I will say that the structure and the mechanisms look really well done, for an extrusion based machine. Another thing, the Japanese company I worked for made very large CNC mills (machining centers) which had ball screws for axes over 16ft and we had no issues with ball-screw whip. Why? Because those ball-screws were over 3" in diameter. They were also hollow and had chilled oil running through them. As well, they had followers, whose job it was to keep the ball-screw centered. I'm not saying he's wrong, just saying that what he said does not apply to all calibers of machine.

The raptor nails at around 22:00 need more discussion!

Very nice 👍 job 👌 My friends

sweet set up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the video pretty fascinating how these are put together. I am in the granite countertop and people in my industry use these but they're much more massive and cost a quarter million. You guys ever try to build one to use as a router for doing sinks?

I recognize this guy from school. Pretty cool!

Awesome machine :) Thanks for the elaborate explanations!

That would be cool to have for my everlast plasma cutter.

What are the advantages of using a belt drive versus a direct drive from a stepper motor?

Wish these things were available in the UK

It’s very very very Awesome

its been a few years now...are you guys going to upload an updated video on the Avid CNC..?

I love Frank's Artemis shirt!

It never gets old I swear, its like a guy doing a video of his first rat rod. He did a good job and proud of it. Of course he realizes there are fancier , more sophisticated ones out there but for now this suits his needs and he's moving forward learning. When all of the sudden right out of the clear blue sky some asshole starts shitting on some guys parade, comparing his first Rad Rod to the fucking space shuttle. What amazes me is with all the experts and down trotters that appear to exist. Why aren't more of you doing how to video's to help some of the less engineering inclined . Lmmfao!!!

really solid infomercial

great machine - I want one

Bringing more toys I'm never gonna afford ;o)

So just to be clear, an assuming my knowledge of CNC is not very good (which it isn't), does this machine require a five axis controller or are you somehow tying the two "Y" axis motors to one axis?

Where can you get the design for the chair

Love it. Excellent idea doing 1/2 plasma table and 1/2 wood table. Edit: Wonder if you could put a full-length water table on as a permanent fixture, then a wood table on top if you wanted to cut wood parts intermittently.

Drew has deep knowledge :o

why didnt you make a full size water bed , lower it a bit and cover it with a full sized removeable router table?

Good job Sue , ,!

When they mention FRC ♥️♥️

I'm watching this video as I program my CNC machines at work!

What about attaching a 3D Printer head? What is the travel of the Z axis. Would have liked to have seen the control board and power supply setup. Construction plans and specifications. It was more a a pay for play add.

Norm: So, now you have to calibrate it? Drew: *spends four minutes explaining the calibration process* Norm: Okay, so… yes, you have to calibrate it. *nods understandingly*

You're not get your plasma cutting fix here, only five seconds of out of focus video, out of 28 minutes. They said they had a special plasma cutting control package that cut clean Edges, that what I wanted to see.

What are the details in the control panel i would like to build a simiar table

real cool cnc router. i search for a workshop today. if i find one i build also a cnc Machine. this times i make with a little Laser Cutter und a Diy 3d printer some projects. but my channel very litte at the beginning. i hope i can make some cool vid. like yours :)

You guys are killin it with the content recently!

Great questions, very interesting.

Raptor nails and staples, composite that is stronger than metal. - mind blown

SO AWESOME EPISODE !!!!! THANKS SO MUCH FOR SHARING WITH US. CAN'T WAIT TO GO BACK TO MY "OPEN BUILD" CNC :)

Данные станки эксплуатируются уже на протяжении нескольких лет. Опыт который приобретён за это время говорит, что : - делать стульчики на высокотехнологичных станках слишком дорогое удовольствие. Необходимо соизмерять сам инструмент и задача которая ставиться перед ним. Нельзя микроскопом забивать гвозди ! - совмещение на одном станке фрезера и плазмы только удорожает станок. Это разные по своему технологическому процессу операции, которые требуют и разных условий их выполнения.Тем более совместно они просто не требуются для выполнения Ваших задач. Можно, конечно иметь лопату, на ручке которой с противоположной стороны насадить вилы. Но так ли они там нужны Вам в земляных работах ?

What size profiles do people think are being used for the table? They look pretty big.

You should give this to William Osmon...he needs it more.

what is the poin of separating in half cut and half mill...instead of full size cutting and fulll size milling?

...I need one! I've been shopping for a gantry style CNC for a few years now. This one certainly is robustly built! Inexpensive for what you are getting too.

So awesome! I want one

You should try putting a 3d print head on the thing.

what's the benefits of using closed loop nema 34 instead of the simple ones ,are we gonna eliminate the end stop switches

Does anyone know if this product exists anymore? The link in the comments shows the item is not found and there are only dedicated router or plasma CNC systems that are between $10-$20,000.

Clever people are getting younger....oh I hate getting old. :(...

good project . so i can ask how many time to by this project . thanks

Muito bom parabéns 👏👏👏

Artemis shirt ;) really nice book!

Cool.

Oh, wow. Hello, Frank - looking mighty fine! ;) You should go without the hat more often 👍

These are the types of videos that tested was built on (the last 3). You asked what we wanted to see... This kind of stuff. No more stupid puppets or Weta shit.

What would be an actual price for this setup?

Want one for my everlast plasma cutter now.

If you can, make/put a vacuum table for the CNC router table surface, so so so so much better than having to clamp or nail things in place

hi cv i saw all your video and i love this machine i am a carpenter in morocco can i ask you for all the accessories from AaZ for 1m / 2m cnc machines. thank you and send me the total price of all accessories thank you very much for your time to explain to us

can this guy build one for Foam routering? love the flexibility on Size. I want to build the Plugs for a Catamaran hulls. Long, tall hulls so I need it to be pretty tall. I can do things in blocks, maybe 5' high x 10' long, and then stack the blocks to fit.

As far as the correct endmill to use you've got a handful of options and a straight flute is just a meh tool. And knowing what to use and when is important. Upward spiral tools are for a good bottom edge and tool longevity because they clear chips very efficiently but do try to pull veneers up. Downward spirals don't last as long because they don't clear chips very effectively but they give a good top finish and don't really move your stock. If your spoil board is in clean condition it should also leave the bottom edge reasonably alright. Straight flute tools give an ok top and bottom finish but far from perfect and they are semi effective at chip clearing. The correct tool for plywood is a compression cutter which has a small section of upcut on the bottom of the tool to give a good bottom finish and the rest of the tool cuts down to give a good top surface. That being said it doesn't look like this machine has the guts to actually use a compression cutter properly since you need to cut at least deep enough to hit the downward spiral in the first pass and I'm not sure that weedy little spindle could handle that at a speed fast enough to not burn out the tool.

How do I get a machine like this

How much for this whole set up?

Very nice What is the size of linear guide rail that you are using in this machine

I am interested in a SMALL hobby cnc machine that would make little circuit boards (4" X 5" biggest) on one sided copper/ fiberglass. Do you have any suggestions? Please keep them under $ 800..Thanks.

i built mine from scratch and saved a bunch of money.