CptBlondBeard
Senior Member
Item: CRON Craft CNC Machine Kit - LARGE (assembled) plus extra CNC bits and assortment of exotic and pine wood offcuts (roughly 1/2 cubic meter's worth)
Age: Bought 13 July 2020
Price:R12 000 R10 000
Payment Method Accepted: EFT (confirmed in my account before I release the goods, not just a proof of payment), cash (although EFT is preferred).
Warranty: No warranty came with the machine
Packaging: No
Condition: Excellent
Location:Randburg, JHB Pretoria East (Recently moved back to PTA in preparation for emigration later this year)
Reason: Likely emigrating later this year, busy clearing the garage in anticipation
Shipping: Nope, machine is assembled so prefer not to disassemble
Collection: Yes, preferred
Link: CRON Craft CNC Machine Kit (Select Large in machine size dropdown)
Machine has seen only relatively light use (no metal only wood and acrylic although you can cut and engrave some lighter/softer metals) as part of lockdown keeping busy mode the towards end of last year. I have recently 'refreshed' the spoilboard (MDF) by cutting it with the machine itself to clear cutting marks as well as to get the bed as level as possible with the machine itself for more accurate engraving. I have also cut holes in the spoilboard and cut/assembled parts for an additional clamping system (see below YouTube video, machine in video not the CronCraft) in addition to the clamping system that comes with the machine. I have found that a combination of the two systems works nicely for buth cutting and engraving.
As per the below photos I am including a bunch of CNC bits, most of which I bought separate from the machine, most are regular widely available bits, the one compression spiral bit was quite hard to find and was around R300+ on its own.
I am also including an assortment of exotic wood and pine offcuts that I bought from Maple Street Timbers (Maple Street Timbers). I bought a cubic meter pallete from them a few months back and I have thrown away the really crappy pieces and kept the great and good pieces, and only ended up using a small amount of the wood before the garage clearing process started and I mostly worked with acrylic anyway. So there is roughly 1/2 cubic meter's worth of exotic wood and pine offcuts remaining and not all of it is pictured below as some of it is sitting on the lower shelves of my workbenches. If you would like all the offcuts with the machine purchase, great, but if you only want some of it with the machine purchase that's also fine. Exotic wood sold off site
The machine overall dimensions are 590mm x 1165mm x 460mm (W x L x H) and even though 3D Printing Store mentions a cutting area of 1000mm x 400mm I have found that I can safely and worry-free cut with in an area of 992 mm by 423 mm (see photos for the cleared/leveled area which are these exact dimensions).
The machine runs GRBL firmware (grbl/grbl) and I use the free version of Inventables Easel browser based software (Easel | Free CNC Software | Inventables) for running cuts etc. I use the free version of Autodesk Fusion360 for the designing of parts and engravings but you are not limited to only the mentioned firmware or software as there are plenty of options available on the web.
FYI
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Age: Bought 13 July 2020
Price:
Payment Method Accepted: EFT (confirmed in my account before I release the goods, not just a proof of payment), cash (although EFT is preferred).
Warranty: No warranty came with the machine
Packaging: No
Condition: Excellent
Location:
Reason: Likely emigrating later this year, busy clearing the garage in anticipation
Shipping: Nope, machine is assembled so prefer not to disassemble
Collection: Yes, preferred
Link: CRON Craft CNC Machine Kit (Select Large in machine size dropdown)
Machine has seen only relatively light use (no metal only wood and acrylic although you can cut and engrave some lighter/softer metals) as part of lockdown keeping busy mode the towards end of last year. I have recently 'refreshed' the spoilboard (MDF) by cutting it with the machine itself to clear cutting marks as well as to get the bed as level as possible with the machine itself for more accurate engraving. I have also cut holes in the spoilboard and cut/assembled parts for an additional clamping system (see below YouTube video, machine in video not the CronCraft) in addition to the clamping system that comes with the machine. I have found that a combination of the two systems works nicely for buth cutting and engraving.
As per the below photos I am including a bunch of CNC bits, most of which I bought separate from the machine, most are regular widely available bits, the one compression spiral bit was quite hard to find and was around R300+ on its own.
The machine overall dimensions are 590mm x 1165mm x 460mm (W x L x H) and even though 3D Printing Store mentions a cutting area of 1000mm x 400mm I have found that I can safely and worry-free cut with in an area of 992 mm by 423 mm (see photos for the cleared/leveled area which are these exact dimensions).
The machine runs GRBL firmware (grbl/grbl) and I use the free version of Inventables Easel browser based software (Easel | Free CNC Software | Inventables) for running cuts etc. I use the free version of Autodesk Fusion360 for the designing of parts and engravings but you are not limited to only the mentioned firmware or software as there are plenty of options available on the web.
FYI
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