Yet Another New Machine

I might not be allowed to talk about it here though.  Except for setting it up it probably won't see much metalworking.  I wanted a bigger CNC machine for sheet goods.  I really wanted something in the 5'x10' size envelope, but everything I liked was out of my price range, and I struggled with where I would put it.  Even the machine with the 4'x4' cut range I ordered might get put in the garage instead of the shop.
All of my planned first projects with the new CNC router are in wood, plywood, MDF, or HDPE.  Drawers, hold down table (of course), rod racks, cabinets, etc.
I think with extendable out feed rollers and good indexing plans I'll be able to work on upto 4x8 sheet goods and not tie up all that space when its not in use.  It is however not a real "pro" machine.  High end of the hobby range is my hope.  Then again I started mold making as a business with a low/mid range hobby machine, so there is no telling what this new toy might wind up doing.
The thing that excites me most about it (Onefinity Elite Foreman) is the Masso G3 Touch controller it comes with.  It looks like its instruction set includes everything my main CAM software can put out, and a few things more.  If I like it I may use a Masso controller on the Bridgeport.  It would simplify a lot of the controller planning over my earlier plan to run with LinucCNC and a MESA I/O board.  At 4GB of code capacity per program that means millions of lines of code.  No bottle neck there thank goodness.  I do run code files over a million lines, and have run a few well over 2 million lines.
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Bob La Londe
CNC Molds N Stuff
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