Yea... i'm bummed out. I had a real nice deal with my laser cuter.... he did all the work. I just sent him an order and from that he would make the entire kit and ship it.
I have nearly everything a need to make my cnc router.... except a nice set of linear rails for the long axis. and i'm lacking in skill/tools to build the machine. I have the steppers, controllers, power supply, some short slides, and the rotozip for cutting. But i never wanted to go in production for kits. I was thinking of making servo mounts like the old grimracer mounts..... but the biggest I could make it is about 20" x 12" I need longer slides to make at least 12 x 48 to cut kits. so unless someone wants to help build my machine.... and have long slides i'm at a no go.
I have some of these from www.bwc.com but they are only 30" long so I would need to put two together to get it long enough.... and I have 4 of them but they have a big bump between them when I put them together..... so it looks like it wont work
id love to have my own laser but my budget
I don't really make money from my hobby to speak of.
so i'm going to check out some of these laser cutters.... but even that I would need $$$ to buy like 12 at a time or so and then do all the extra stuff myself.... big project. that's why my last guy was so awesome.... 1 order at a time he was all setup... it worked great.
I'm going to try to figure it out.... it really sucks as now is the time of year I usually get all my orders.... november to january I usually sell more kits then the rest of the entire year.