The New Altmill CNC Router Preview - FAST!

if you've heard about the alt Mill CNC router from CNC Labs the new one that is now available then this video is for you because they were very kind to give me the footage of that machine so you can see how badass this thing is IDC woodcraft.com I'm Garrett with IDC Woodcraft a company to provide you with your CNC router bits if you have a Long Mill CNC router which is one I've been using for a couple years now or are in the market for CNC router not sure what to get then you might like this video as to what you can actually do with a CNC router and particularly with the alt Mill considering the price point which blows me away I'll talk to you about that in a minute but I want to talk to you about the alt Mill real quick and then we're going to get into this footage of this badass machine you're going to be blown away at how fast this thing runs so CNC Labs is the company that makes the longmill CNC router and they make some other CNC products and they're coming out with a CO2 laser the only company in North America that's actually building a CO2 laser for the home based Market but this is about the alt Mill so the alt Mill is a 4 in uh sorry 4x4 machine 48 in x 48 in that's the size of the work bed of my Phantom here which is a big machine that's that's a $111,000 machine the alt Mill you're going to be blown away by this $3,000 for a ball screw driven machine closed loop system another $500 you'll get a spindle on it and it has like a killer feed rate and Cut Rate which you're going to see right now so if you want to check this thing out just remember I got a link down below to the web page that they have for CNC Labs has for the alt Mill so what we're going to do is we're going to get into this video mix that that I put together that they were so kind to give to me so I could show you of what this alt Mill does so I'm going to just say one more thing you know most of these like benchtop CNC routers we have to build our own table for them the alt Mill at that price point of $3,000 comes with its own table already 48 in x 48 in when it comes to CNC rers Size Matters and for you if you're a little on a tight budget you will probably be very interested in this machine particular at the Clos loop system comes with a super long board we'll talk more about it as you watch this video I'll show you all the stuff that they've added to this machine to make it so badass so let's go so here they are surfacing the wasteboard with the machine and this looks like it's running at about 300 in per minute and okay so now we're doing this is 3/4 in plywood cabinet grade plywood one pass 8,000 mm per minute now that is 315 in per minute it with a compression bit so they're going all the way through the material in one pass look at look how fast this thing is and you can tell this is not sped up right you can tell by the way that the wood chips are coming off the machine there as it's making its cut that was a fast cutout of that part so I'm not sure what they're making here but this is wicked wicked fast so if you have a Long Mill then the max feed rate is 157 in per minute and they are running this thing at 315 in per minute okay so here's something else again this is 3/4 in Plywood And I didn't see what that was that oh that was a down cutter and that thing is running currently at uh about 180 in per minute that's my best guess now look at the Gantry on that machine that's one long piece of aluminum that looks extremely rigid and also they're using two linear bearings for to guide it both on the z-axis and the um x axis which goes across and on the y- AIS now everything's ball screw driven which is a nice little step look at the left side of the screen right now at that motor you see the extra wires on that that is a closed loop system and what that means is it knows if it's lost position and if that happens it will stop and look how fast it's cutting through this plywood of whatever they're making this is all one pass you see a little jump that the router makes every once in a while that's cutting a tab out and this is still the true speed of it okay so they did it on an 8T piece now it cuts 4T by 4ot so half a sheet and now it looks like they got Walnut the roughing pass are using a/4 inch roughing endmill 24,000 RP M uh 200 in per minute and this looks like the Beast or the bad yeah the beast from IDC Woodcraft and that thing is rocking and rolling through that now it is the Beast is a by the way you want to get this router bit you see how fast you can run it that's designed to hog out material doesn't leave the cleanest finished that's something you get at IDC Woodcraft I will link that down below but look how fast they're running it at and this is uh I can tell they're using the stepover uh that that I prescrib for that 80 80% stepover and they're running at twice the speed I recommend probably three times and they're doing a ramp in here to do that Final Cut and wham bam bam bam okay here's a bull bit and this looks like it's running at about 80 in per minute no didn't get enough of the bull bit and now we're doing a uh down cut cutter cut out and they're doing it at 150 in per minute and it looks like they're doing this in two passes there's a a ramp down right there now when you're ramping down you want to uh you want to keep the uh feed rate at the feed instead of a plunge feed but so two passes and it has cut that bowl out and they've cut multiple B holes that's Walnut though okay that's rapid going all the way across that looks like 500 in per minute and so now they're using 1/ in plywood this is an 8 in down cutting bit or an E8 in compression I didn't read that fast enough and this looks like it's running at about 250 in per minute very quick now this is aluminum composite at 157 in per minute RPM's 24,000 depth of cut eigh of an inch so it's E8 in ACM and what ACM is it's a uh aluminum plates and and and they're like uh on the outside of a plastic sheet so it's uh plastic on the inside aluminum on the outside and this is this is an O flute bit or single flute bit and that is cutting exceptionally well for that type of bit at that feed rate I'm really impressed with what this machine is doing cutting ACM is much cleaner than it is Sal uh cutting wood because you don't get nearly as much sawdust now this is a slab 3 in thick slab there's surface in it speed at 275 in per minute with a 1in surfacing bit and I couldn't tell there step over but that is wicked fast for a machine so you can see the linear rails there it's a spindle so that spindle is a $500 upgrade to the $3,000 machine now this is where it really blew me away this big ass slab is a 3D car very complex and you'll see in a minute but what is really blowing me away is how fast it's doing that intense detail I did a project like this once that was only about 7 in tall and about 3 ft wide took 9 hours to do and what's different here over what I've got my Phantom is what I'm seeing is the acceleration rates see how fast it's moving up and down there's a big thing when it comes to CNC routers is acceleration that what that's what will take up the time when you're doing 3D carbs and this one has got a phenomenal acceleration rate which really cuts down on your runtime now you can see how fast it's running this is not sped up you can tell by how fast they're moving when they're vacuuming good Lord that is quick they're using a uh very tight taper that's a 6° taper uh ballnose endmill and a very small tip on it now I don't know how long this is taken so far but I'm going to guess they've probably got about 3 hours into this job at this point and you can see it's starting to come out uh pull out that detail that piece of wood there is probably $600 $700 now you can see the Gantry there it's some big stocky piece of aluminum and if you get a chance look at the Gantry frame in a very thick bracket that's holding the Gantry to the rest of the machine very pretty piece of uh project there let's see what this looks like huge nice nice job sitting on top of the machine so that gives you an idea of the machine now this is what really blows me away is the aluminum so this is run at 20,000 RPM at 2100 in per minute which is about 80 in per minute so 2100 mm per minute with the surfacing and now they're using a/ Quin up cutter you cannot either an up cutter or an O flute um you cannot cut aluminum with a down cutter um obviously sped up this 24,000 RPM 1500 mm per minute uh 1,500 mm per minute is about 60 in to 70 in per minute look at that rip around the side of that this blows me away for aluminum 4 4700 mm per minute that's 180 in per minute um very surprised that this thing can hand aluminum that's not traditional in CNC routers of course this sped up here they're using a ballnose on this but the the actual finish on this whole thing is actually coming out quite well which is very surprising for a a CNC router even as a CNC expert myself I didn't think CNC routers could really handle aluminum now they're doing a chamfer endmill again 24,000 RPM and it looks like it's probably traveling at about 60 in per minute maybe 50 putting a nice little Edge on whatever they're made here now that's still in thece you can tell that has not been cleaned up that's the condition right after the cut without cleaning up and it's a vice handle very very cool so I'm going to link this down below in the description of this video so I am very impressed with the alt Mill I already ordered mine um I know they're on back order but you might want to check that out so link Down Below in the description and check it out if you're in the market if you want to upgrade your CNC router $3500 with the spindle one of these things which is what you want over a trim router this is the way to go IDC woodcraft.com

Channel: IDC Woodcraft

Views: 13,167

Keywords: cnc for beginners, cnc router, Garrett Fromme, vectrix, longwood cnc router, long wood cnc router, long board cnc, idcwoodcraft, idc woodcraft

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Length: 11min 58sec (718 seconds)

Published: Tue May 07 2024