[chbot] building CNC router - was Free stepper motors

Robin Gilks robin at gilks.org
Sat Jul 2 06:00:18 BST 2011


> I'll second that.  I'm using a dremel as well, but I re-built it with
> higher quality bearings which helped a bit.  The stock bearings had
> almost 0.5mm slop in the, which causes all sorts of problems.

I'd be interested in where you got better quality bearings. My Dremel is
now about 10 years old and although hasn't had a lot of use, its always
had shoddy bearing which tends to break the proper (and brittle) PCB
drills I use :(

Cheers

-- 
Robin Gilks





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