All i know is Rockler tool seem to be selling a lot them heard CS was good with all the CNC people on here some one surely can help you.
Good info, if you replaced the router mount with an aluminum one, would you recommend it then?I own an early Shark Pro, and have a Shark HD2.0 where I work. All CNCs made by Nextwave Automation have a plastic Z axis router mount. It is the achilles heel of the design.
I'm sure you could swap out all the HDPE parts for aluminum and end up with a much more accurate and useful CNC, but I'm not going to recommend a CNC where you have to rebuild it once you get it to make it worth its price. I still get occasional use out of my old Shark Pro. It only carries a lightweight trim router though. I've already replaced the router clamp with a much more effective version. The bed design is a solid t-track plane over a feed rod that pulls a bottom gantry beam back and forth. No real option there for opening up the bed to clamp parts vertically beneath it. For roughly the same money I bought my Meteor from Probotix and have twice the cutting area along with an all aluminum and steel bed frame. Two Y axis steppers pull the gantry back and forth, leaving all the area inside the perimeter frame available for jigs and brackets and fixtures and magic. By mounting my Meteor on essentially just four 4x4 posts I've been able to cut a menagerie of different parts and joints that you won't be able to cut on any more conventional solid bed CNC.Good info, if you replaced the router mount with an aluminum one, would you recommend it then?
Steve.