hey everybody norm from tested here at Bay Area Maker Faire 2019 now here with
Erin and Sammy of formerly CNC router parts we've seen your products before
use them love them but you guys have a new name now Erin what's up well that's
right we've been cnc router parts for a long
time but about five or six years ago we started selling more than just parts we
started selling complete solutions and really we felt like a name that
reflected our excitement about cnc and the fact that we can get people into it
was more appropriate for our company so here we are as avid C&C avid cnc now
we've put together one of your big routers and also plasma cutters over
down at frank shop and you get you guys i love you your presence at maker fair
because you always have a cool project to show off the capabilities Sammy what
is it you're holding here this is our ping-pong ball crossbow mechanism and it
illustrates a lot of the different types of machining that we do here we have the
front bow which was plasma cut and we have a couple different aluminum inserts
here that were also routed and it's the body also shows off our new 4th axis
rotary attachment that's a new thing this year there's a whole fourth access
is it installed yes right there tell me how this works there alright so the
fourth axis system is a ten-to-one planetary reducer coupled to a four jaw
self centering Chuck and effectively what it lets you do is hold parts and
machine them for multiple different sides so you can do continuous rep
rotation and cutting but you can also index and cut parts from different sides
which you can do without a rotary system but it's painful and clunky because you
have to keep flipping parts and you know refining them whereas the rotor you can
just hold them and let you keep going is this something that works as an add-ons
you for existing customers they can abide and added ons they're the CNC
absolutely it's it's intended to be compatible with both our bench top lines
and our Pro Series machines how's that melted on so we have a couple different
configurations where we can mount the rotary system you can mount it
lengthwise on the bed and just on top of it so for customers who don't who use it
occasionally and are doing smaller work pieces that might make sense it's also
designed so it can be recessed in the bed of the machine and that's nice
because you can get larger work pieces in there and underneath the gantry one
of the things that really impressed us as we put together
the three access the big three axes one how big it it was scaled up to you right
the big gantry fits full you know four by eight sheets but also how rock-solid
the the just the design if it was how much engineering goes into developing
another access and an experiment iterating to get it working to your
standards yeah there's been a significant amount of effort that's gone
into making this the robust system that we really wanted it to be we've had
customers do third-party add-ons rotary systems in the past but they're really
not strong enough to hold the part well or to resist the cutting loads that we
really want to be able to put on pieces we're routing solid maple on this taking
quarter-inch passes at about four hundred inches a minute so to be able to
withstand those sorts of cutting loads we needed a really robust mechanism so
our engineering team has put in a lot of time to making it that way your
customers are making all sorts of things all sorts different fabrication but what
are the things that you recommend for this class is system one of the
materials and what the type of things are your customers building so we've got
customers this is really intended for objects that have a lot of sculptural
aspects to them so it's great for plastic and wood and foam for people
doing props and things like that so I'm sure testing crews gonna be interested
in that it's also possible to cut metal on this or to put a part in it
that just needs to have holes punched in it from multiple sides we have a lot of
customers wanting to just do some one-off applications like that so if it
can fit in the rotary system it's probably a good application for it is it
available now or is it shipping soon we're taking pre-sales now we have quite
a list of people who've been asking this for a long time so we're servicing that
group first but then yeah contact us if you want one and we'll be able to get
one to you soon probably in a month of a month or two months at the latest very
cool is great see you both here at Maker Faire and I'm we can't end this without
a demonstration of this launcher can we get one Sammy
that is so cool great to see you about they have a great maker fair