[QUELAB CNC] Status of the shapeoko,

[John Benedetto]

We have a Shapeoko 2.

Here are some links with pics to show the difference:
version 1 -
http://www.shapeoko.com/wiki/index.php/Assembly_overview_%28SO1%29
Version 2 - http://www.shapeoko.com/wiki/index.php/ShapeOko_2

Andres email me privately last night that he HAS purchased the X-Carve
upgrade kit.  This is basically a Z-Axis upgrade kit. As I understand it,
the X-Carve is basically the Shapeoko 2 with the improved Z Axis, wire
management comes built in, along with a  few other misc. things.

As part of the Black Friday sales, the upgrade kit was $100 off; this
results in a 50% discount on the normal $200 price!  In addition, orders
over $100 get a $50 gift card, so he is planning on buying the Bosch Colt
router mount with the gift card, once he has it.

Frankly, a router will be more powerful than a dremel or even the DC
spindle. The DC spindle gets points for being quieter than a router!
Because of this, I am pushing forward with using the Bosch Colt Router that
John A. bought (even though it won't really do steel like he hoped).  I
hope we can use the 'extra' DC spindle Troy has in his possession to
'eventually' upgrade the Blue CNC machine.

As for point of contact on the project, I am taking charge of it.

JT

On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 11:37 PM, Adric <adricm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Andres, was showing some of the black friday 'sales'  that inventables has
> and was all amped up about perhaps buying the upgrade kit for it,  but the
> one he pulled up was to convert from shapeoko 2 to xcarve, we have a
> shapeoko1 (right?) not sure of all the differences, but id much rather any
> money put into it was for the right things, and in the direction of making
> it keeping it operational rather than making it a bigger project.
>
> I'm a firm believer in making things work, and if they get heavy
> use/traffic/interest then see about upgrading.
>
> I know there was some talk of using the bosh, or the router from the
> blucnc, or a dc spindle. any decisions?  what else? I know most of all we
> needed someone with the interest and the bandwidth to keep poking this
> along.
>
>
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