New Member Introduction

1845 Views 16 Replies 17 Participants Last post by Stick486, Sep 22, 2020

Joe Millar

Discussion Starter · Sep 7, 2020

Hi All
I am very new to these projects. My background is Electronics, however, the last 25 years of my working life involved building, designing, commissioning and eventually managing a deep tank fermentation business used for agricultural inputs.
I am retired and due to the Corona Virus restrictions cannot travel as I would like, so to keep myself occupied I decided to build my own CNC Router. I used the Tops CNC Heavy instructions and using a Ender 3 Pro 3D Printer to print the components along with an Arduino Controller connected to a dedicated Laptop for control. So far I have produced some door plaques for my grandchildren and a couple of other minor projects. I live in Wodonga, Victoria Australia.
Cheers
Joe

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dirt_dobber

· #2 · Sep 7, 2020

Howdy from Bee Cave TX.
there are a lot of great people here, far more skilled than I and ready and willing to offer all kinds of suggestions and help.

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RainMan 2.0

· #3 · Sep 7, 2020

Welcome to the forum Joe

Nickp

· #4 · Sep 7, 2020

Welcome to the Forum, Joe...a great and helpful community of CNC'ers are available on here. You've come to the right place...!

difalkner

· #5 · Sep 7, 2020

Welcome to the forum, Joe! Add your first name to your profile to clear the N/a in the side panel and add your location to your profile, as well.

We do like photos so show us your shop, tools, projects, etc. whenever you're ready. What sort of woodworking are you planning or doing with the CNC? Build threads with lots of photos are popular, btw.

David

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thomas1389

· #6 · Sep 7, 2020

Hi there, Joe. I'm from Damnerhitcha, Ontario, Canada. Welcome to the forum. A great place to rest.

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roxanne562001

· #7 · Sep 7, 2020

Welcome to the forum

DesertRatTom

· #8 · Sep 7, 2020

Glad you decided to join the fun. I suggest you post in the CNC forum section where the CNC folks hang out.

Semipro

· #9 · Sep 7, 2020

‘Hello and welcome to the router forum, Joe

old55

· #10 · Sep 8, 2020

Welcome to the forum Joe.

jw2170

· #11 · Sep 8, 2020

G'day Joe.

Welcome to the forum.

Can you sneak over the border for a beer.....VBG...

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marecat3

· #12 · Sep 9, 2020

Welcome to the forum

Roy Drake

· #13 · Sep 19, 2020

Glad you are here, Joe. Welcome.

Cherryville Chuck

· #14 · Sep 19, 2020

Hi Joe and welcome. There are lots of helpful people on here and a good number of them are from down under like you.

DaninVan

· #15 · Sep 19, 2020

Hey,Joe; welcome! (ignore Thomas 1389 ..."I'm from Damnerhitcha", he's been into the maple syrup again

)

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JamesFitts

· #16 · Sep 22, 2020

Hi, My name is James Fitts. I am a new member of this forum.

Stick486

· #17 · Sep 22, 2020

JamesFitts said:
Hi, My name is James Fitts. I am a new member of this forum.

Hello James, welcome to the forums...
We're happy you found us...
now to add you name to your avatar block to clear the N/A...

Here is some recommended ''light reading'' of pertinent/relative information on routering that we've put together at this here link for ya...
You should find most everything there (at least most of it) quite useful and a lot of help to get you up and running in the world of routers...
Enjoy...
Do take some time to read the safety PDF's... PLEASE!!!
Blood and trips to the ER, we find, are very annoying... Not to mention – expensive...

You have question about something??? Anything???
We welcome all questions here on just about any subject you can come up w/....
Not only that, we love and excel at spending money... Lots and lots of money... Especially when it's yours....

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