This is the router mount I’ve designed on Tinkercad for my MPCNC. I’ve used it for a while now and it seems to work pretty well so I though I could share it.
It mounts directly on the standard MPCNC tool mount.
There are plenty of grooves and holes for cooling.
It is fairly rigid, I’ve printed it with PLA and no problem at all.
The basic settings for my print:
0.4mm nozzle
0.2mm layer height
3 perimeters
50% infill
Supports on (not absolutely necessary but the results will be better).
I was afraid at first that the router might run too hot and soften the PLA, so I’ve used a trick to insulate the router from it. You just need an old Hair dryer.
Inside the hair dryer, you will find a sheet of fiberish material, which looks like a shiny paper. This sheet is a great insulator, which prevent the plastic to melt due to the very high temperature of the heat resistors. Just take this sheet, wrap it around your router and put the router in its support.
So far, it works perfectly. I didn’t try running without this insulator, I assume it should still be fine since the router didn’t get very hot, but I don’t really want to ruin everything in case things go wrong.
A picture in real life, doing some serious work on 20 mm crappy plywood.
By the way, I was a bit surprised to discover that here, in China, whenever they don’t have enough wood to finish their plywood, well… they just pour concrete inside!
No wonder why my saw blades dull so fast…
Heh, probably fell into the press and they missed it. When I was a kid I lived in south Georgia. Our drafting class took a field trip to a Georgia Pacific plywood factory. Pretty cool to watch two to three foot long logs fall into a chipper with a 8 foot diameter face! They had a bolt that used a 3" wrench on a shelf that fell into the plywood press. It wasn’t round anymore. Usually they run the sheets through a metal detector, but I guess concrete wouldn’t show up.
@Saaif: It is just a random no-name chinese router I’ve purchased in a shop near my house. Doesn’t really matters as long as the diameter of your router is the same,
Even if it is not the same, the drawing is very easy to edit in tinkercad, so you can adapt it to your own router if you want.
It seems great, I’ll probably use it for CNC milling some electronic circuits.
The only downside will be that It will be hard to design a holder since the shape is not usual.
