CNC Rage and/or Blurry Customs users

pescadoman

pescadoman

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I'm looking at the cnc Rage, as well as Blurry Customs. The prices are similar.

If you have one of these and can take the time to share you experience, I will offer my first born child..

Thank you...
 
If it were me I would contact blurry and unique and see if they are willing to give you one or two people that have purchased there machine so you could talk to the them personally. Or you just contact them and you could talk to them personally about the machines.
 
JBCustomCues said:
If it were me I would contact blurry and unique and see if they are willing to give you one or two people that have purchased there machine so you could talk to the them personally. Or you just contact them and you could talk to them personally about the machines.
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Joe, what you say is great but a MFG is only going to give you names of people they know will say great things. The advantage of a forum is getting out the pros and cons which will come with anything.
 
JBCustomCues said:
If it were me I would contact blurry and unique and see if they are willing to give you one or two people that have purchased there machine so you could talk to the them personally. Or you just contact them and you could talk to them personally about the machines.
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I already did that....

I know one person who has a blurry and is happy, but noone who has a rage.

So.....I know one person who has one of the two...

I want the 24x48 footprint, so I'm not confined to just cues. I can no longer afford the 20k machine..
 
I have the first rage built for sale by Unique and it has been flawless. Any questions you can pm me.
 
first born

pescadoman said:
I'm looking at the cnc Rage, as well as Blurry Customs. The prices are similar.

If you have one of these and can take the time to share you experience, I will offer my first born child..

Thank you...
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I'd do the deal but first born's tend to be intolerant.
 
I have heard many good things about Unique's CNC products, but am not familiar with the Blurry Customs products. Do you have a link to their CNC products?
 
here is a screeny of the one I am considering..
 

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JBCustomCues said:
WWW .blurry customs.com
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I followed the link to CNCzone and read a little about the machine. It is built almost identical to the one that I built for myself. Mine can cut 30"X33" and is 4-axis. One problem that stands out, and is the same as my machine and that is that the ball screws are not protected from dust and debris. So far I've had no problems but a few years ago when Jim, MC2, who knows CNC better than most know the palms of their hand, was in town. He stopped by and looked the machine over and quickly acted shocked to see that the screws and rails had no protection. I got the impression that he considered it imperative to protect these components from dust.

I built mine from surplus aluminum and mostly used industrial components that I purchased on e-bay. I built the controller using compuserve drivers and am using a 75 volt, 7.5 amp power supply. Since building the machine around 2002 or 2003 I've only had 2 problems. One driver went bad so I replaced with a Geko driver and i had one thrust bearing pre-loaded to tightly and I had to replace.

Dick
 
rhncue said:
I followed the link to CNCzone and read a little about the machine. It is built almost identical to the one that I built for myself. Mine can cut 30"X33" and is 4-axis. One problem that stands out, and is the same as my machine and that is that the ball screws are not protected from dust and debris. So far I've had no problems but a few years ago when Jim, MC2, who knows CNC better than most know the palms of their hand, was in town. He stopped by and looked the machine over and quickly acted shocked to see that the screws and rails had no protection. I got the impression that he considered it imperative to protect these components from dust.

I built mine from surplus aluminum and mostly used industrial components that I purchased on e-bay. I built the controller using compuserve drivers and am using a 75 volt, 7.5 amp power supply. Since building the machine around 2002 or 2003 I've only had 2 problems. One driver went bad so I replaced with a Geko driver and i had one thrust bearing pre-loaded to tightly and I had to replace.

Dick
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I have the machines to build one, but I'm not sure it is within the parameters of my knowledge..

I suppose I could learn. How much would it cost to screw up the first two???
 
pescadoman said:
here is a screeny of the one I am considering..
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Well you don't have a spindle. And $1300 for gecko 540 with smooth stepper is about double what it should be. You could also save some more money if you bought your own extrusion for you table else where.
 
JBCustomCues said:
Well you don't have a spindle. And $1300 for gecko 540 with smooth stepper is about double what it should be. You could also save some more money if you bought your own extrusion for you table else where.
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That includes a head, chuck, and tailstock..
 
Lee

pescadoman said:
Don't you have Lee's troubled child(cnc that he didn't support) already??

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YEs,,,I certainly f___ing DO! And he certainly F___ing didn't support it.
and I'm absolutely F___ing angry about it. lol

I've been helped with a few great guys, one of which is the designer of the machine. Jim Babcock on this site. Also my friend in N.J. has been working with me many many hours and just to fix what should have been when I bought it. As far as I'm concerned LEE owe's me about 3000$
but that's just a dream....couldn't get three dollars.... I really ought to sue him, but he probably is not sueable....lol
I'm still looking for the best solution for me to make shafts and do inlays. I also have a pantograph.
 
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