Homebrew PCBs

Hi all,

Do any UK members have experience of or use one of the Milford Instruments 3-axis CNC robots thing to drill homemade PCBs holes?
I'm not looking at CNC based PCB etching, simply drilling through holes in noramlly etched boards.

Details here: http://www.milinst.com/robotics/robotics.htm#axis

I know this is a hobby CNC but it does come with a program to drill using Excellon hole data files directly.

Just wondered if anyone has any comments on it?


Cheers all

Kev/.

P.S. I was hoping to use it to make front panels too!



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On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:45:22 +0100, Kev Pearce (kevp.com)  
<email.me@...> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> Do any UK members have experience of or use one of the Milford  
> Instruments 3-axis CNC robots thing to drill homemade PCBs holes?
> I'm not looking at CNC based PCB etching, simply drilling through holes  
> in noramlly etched boards.
>
> Details here: http://www.milinst.com/robotics/robotics.htm#axis
>
> I know this is a hobby CNC but it does come with a program to drill  
> using Excellon hole data files directly.
>
> Just wondered if anyone has any comments on it?
>
>
> Cheers all
>
> Kev/.
>
> P.S. I was hoping to use it to make front panels too!
>

Others have reported drawer-slide mills to work for drilling, so you  
should be fine
as long as there is no backslash and the drill has a good collet with no  
outrun.
Do you have this mill? How bad are the drawer slides really?

ST

> >
> > Do any UK members have experience of or use one of the Milford
> > Instruments 3-axis CNC robots thing to drill homemade PCBs holes?
> > I'm not looking at CNC based PCB etching, simply drilling through holes
> > in noramlly etched boards.
> > Just wondered if anyone has any comments on it?
> >
>
> Others have reported drawer-slide mills to work for drilling, so you
> should be fine
> as long as there is no backslash and the drill has a good collet with no
> outrun.
> Do you have this mill? How bad are the drawer slides really?
>
> ST

Hi,

I haven't bought it yet and the rail were the one thing worring me...

More a hobby CNC problem though than a pcb drilling one though...

I was just hoping someone was using one for pcb drilling...


Kev/.

Andy at:

http://www.gloomy-place.com/cnc.htm

has a Milford machine. You could reach him at his email address at the
site. He built himself a CNC machine because he found the Milford
limited. So he has related experience.

Grant

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Kev Pearce \(kevp.com\)"
<email.me@k...> wrote:
> > >
> > > Do any UK members have experience of or use one of the Milford
> > > Instruments 3-axis CNC robots thing to drill homemade PCBs holes?
> > > I'm not looking at CNC based PCB etching, simply drilling
through holes
> > > in noramlly etched boards.
> > > Just wondered if anyone has any comments on it?
> > >
> >
> > Others have reported drawer-slide mills to work for drilling, so you
> > should be fine
> > as long as there is no backslash and the drill has a good collet
with no

> > outrun.
> > Do you have this mill? How bad are the drawer slides really?
> >
> > ST
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I haven't bought it yet and the rail were the one thing worring me...
> 
> More a hobby CNC problem though than a pcb drilling one though...
> 
> I was just hoping someone was using one for pcb drilling...
> 
> 
> Kev/.