Snowboard CNC machine

posted Jan 1st 2007 4:44am by Will O'Brien
filed under: cnc hacks, misc hacks

Happy new year! I think we’ve covered the DIY CNC stuff a plenty, but I can’t resist posting this one. Remember the DIY snowboard? Recently, quite a few small quantity and home builders have cropped up. (I’m even planning to build my first board later this month.) [Mike Magruder] of happy monkey snowboards built a CNC gantry router just for cutting out wooden snowboard cores. The frame is built from structural aluminum (not cheap) with the usual steppers and some gecko drives running the show. The cable guide track and dust collector even make it look like a professional product. [Mike] also built a sweet press, but I’m going to be using vacuum bagging.

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Posted at 4:59 pm on Jan 1st, 2007 by Kolby Dukes

Its Happy Monkey, not Happy Money.

Posted at 5:12 pm on Jan 1st, 2007 by Josh

Is there any reason that there’s no link when I go to the DIY Snowboard? I can’t find the link to see how that was done. I’m using Firefox 2, and I can’t find any link on the page that points to how it is done, etc… Any reason for this?

Posted at 8:10 pm on Jan 1st, 2007 by Mike

Say, does anyone know what the name of the material used for structure in the above picture is? I remember there was an entire company that manufactures a bunch of stuff in the same fashion, like a big Erector/KNEX set.. just can’t remember the name. The aluminum bars are what I’m talking about.

Posted at 8:50 pm on Jan 1st, 2007 by Max Kelley

does anyone have any DIY snow makers out there?, just out of curiosity.

Posted at 12:19 am on Jan 2nd, 2007 by david

david, if you’re looking for plans, here you go.

http://www.snowathome.com/free_plans/SAH-SG1_y-type_internal_mix.php

Posted at 3:04 am on Jan 2nd, 2007 by matt

It is called T-slot(ed) Aluminum, there is a huge ebay store devoted to it here:
http://stores.ebay.com/8020-Inc-Garage-Sale_T-Slot-Extrusions-Fractional_W0QQcolZ4QQdirZ1QQfsubZ6479546QQftidZ2QQtZkm

Or search Mcmater(.com) for “t-slotted extrusions”.

Have fun!

Posted at 4:19 pm on Jan 2nd, 2007 by ...

that should be mcmaster.com

Posted at 6:48 pm on Jan 2nd, 2007 by ...