Basically he ripped me off then he made some smart remarks about my
design having never seen it. Read the page! With friends like that who
needs enemies. Since the Brute will cut aluminum it is fine the way it
is. Some people have made some changes. For more power I came out with
the Jester. To date I have built over 30 machines and I provide plans
for 10 models. Most homemades and some plans have my centering blocks
and other ideas.
--- In
Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Stefan Trethan"
<stefan_trethan@...> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 19:20:09 +0100, Dave Mucha <dave_mucha@...>
> wrote:
>
> >> For anyone interested in an excellent writeup on building and a free
> >> set of plans and a Brute-type CNC, take a check out this article form
> >> American Lutherie Magazine:
> >>
> >> http://www.liutaiomottola.com/Tools/CNCRouter.htm
> >>
> > The one thing that is bad about that is that they are John K's design.
> > The author did not engineer or design the thing, he just ripped off
> > John K. Bad form.
> > On the other hand, the Z axis needs support. it is not hard, John did
> > not like my suggestion as it would only increase the support by about
> > 4x, but unfortunatly, it would have cost another $10.00 in parts.
> > Dave
>
>
> I don't see how the author did anything of bad form. He freely
admits that
> the machine is similar to John Kleinbauer's, but that he has not
seen the
> plans, even gives a link.
> There is nothing wrong building something similar to John's machines
by
> yourself, and if my memory serves me right John has even encouraged
it,
> right here on this list, to look at his pictures and build something
> similar.
>
> ST
>