Category:MillingToolheads

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Toolheads used for milling, to make the Reprap a CNC Router.

Overview

A small handheld Dremel-like rotary tool is a popular Milling and Drilling Head for RepRap.


There have been two approaches to combining a RepRap with a Dremel-like multitool:

  • Attach the Dremel directly on the tool head. Move the whole thing around.
  • Attach the Dremel to a flex shaft. Attach only the tip of a flex shaft on the tool head and mount the Dremel itself at some other convenient stationary location.


Challenge

The DremelFlexShaftHolder was Developed for the RepMan, Marcus posted a design challenge to convert this reliably working toolhead to the RepRap Mendel.
He discontinued that challenge when Bogdan Kecman posted his FlexShaftHolder on Thingiverse after a discussion in the BitsFromBytes forum.

It is still to be converted to the limited space of the RepRap Mendel or Darwin compared to the RepMan.

There was a design contest going on to adapt an existing Dremel Holder from Marcus that was designed for the RepMan to the RepRap "Darwin" or RepRap "Mendel".
It was closed after Bogdan designed such a toolhead.

unanswered questions

A few people suggested that perhaps it would be better to make the horizontal smooth bars of the Mendel X-axis further apart, so it would be easier to put the entire Dremel and other larger, more powerful toolheads between those bars. How difficult would that be?

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Pages in category "MillingToolheads"

The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.