2018
10/12/18
Burly Mpcnc V4
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The lowrider was created because a few dumbasses kept making huge mpcncs. 
5 foot square will just about fit a half sheet of plywood.
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Ryan, this is awesome. Thanks for putting this together.
I had to look at my build thread to see when I started. It was March, 2016. I am shocked that was over 4 years ago. I remember asking in TV, “what is the hardest part to print? I want to make sure I can print it before I start everything”. And Ryan responded right away. The vitamins from your store got me started and I have had a CNC machine ever since.
I vaguely remember not being that active, and coming back to the forums a few months later. I have been here often ever since.
So great to take a look at how much change has happened in these short years.
Thanks Ryan. 
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I guess I was solidly onboard by Dec 2015… with a couple of larger-format (4’x3’ and 4’x4’) needle-cutter machines (one on wall, one on work table)
Thanks, Ryan!
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October 2016 for me for the MP3DP stuff, I’d already built my MPCNC but I’m going to have to get on a different machine to find those emails. Aha! Looking at my pictures on the phone, I started assembly on the MPCNC on September 12, 2016.
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I will try to dig through my pictures to piece together more of the timeline and any other fun pictures along the way. I am enjoying the look back.
PS Thanks to you guys I am still here and having more fun than ever…seriously who would have thought we would make it this far.
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For some reason, this popped into my head…
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This is really cool. Makes me wish I would’ve gotten into this kind of stuff earlier and stumbled upon you guys back in the beginning of it all.
I remember randomly finding a youtube video about the MPCNC while working on the road at the beginning of '19. I had been dipping my toes into woodworking for about a year or so. I kicked around the idea for a while and watched as many youtube videos as I could about it. Then I finally stumbled across these forums. After seeing how welcoming and helpful of a place it was, I decided I needed to be a part of it!
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I got my printer on Dec 26th of 2015:
By Dec 27th at 10:42PM I had my first part…that part is actually still installed on that printer (it was meant as a LCD mount, but now it’s used as a wiring standoff)
Not sure exactly what day I started building the MPCNC (I could probably figure it out searching some old threads on flitetest.com) but by Feb 20th I had the corners printed as that’s the next photo in my archives:
Six days later I had a center section:
By March 10th I appear to have pretty much all the parts ready:
But…that black filament was absolute trash. I had parts crack across layer lines and break while they were just sitting on my desk a day after printing.
I was on a crazy tight budget at the time. My wife was not very happy about me spending money on the MPCNC…but she was curious enough and impressed with seeing it come together so she didn’t complain and let me keep going. But that lousy black filament slowed me WAY down. I was also having some extruder issues with my printer.
But by March 13th I had a first test assembly:
And realized my plans were too big. I needed it that size to cut 20"x30" sheets of foam board…but I didn’t have room to set it up and work on it at that size! So scaled back to get it working while tried to get my shop cleaned up enough for the fullsize machine:
Since I didn’t trust any of the black parts…and was now sure it had to live in my shop where things get kind of warm in the summer…I decided to reprint the whole thing in PETG. I splurged and got nice filament from Atomic for it too since at this point I had a good feeling it was worth it. I also designed some upgrades for the extruder on my printer around this time and got it working much better.
April 30th I had all the parts reprinted in PETG and started wiring. I had my first moves late that night before I went to bed:
Sunday May 1st 2015 at 6:15PM I did my first “real” test with a pen and made my daughter a penguin:
May 3rd I mounted a dremel with a dremel grinding bit and tried engraving dollar tree foamboard:
By Saturday I had successfully used the dremel to carve a coaster for my boss…he still uses it daily:
May 13th I started experimenting with David’s needle cutter:
But spent most of that weekend cleaning out my shop to make room for the big table.
I could go on…but…the rest is documented in other threads already 
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I was just writing a new topic to document my new printer build, and discobot was nice enough to recap my builds for me:
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Jason I remember most of those pictures!!!
Heffe, Even I do not have a list that cool!
Updated 2015-18 in the first posts.
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Don’t forget your mentions in Digital Machinest magazine.
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I saw that on my table in one of the pics, Odd I had all of them framed and hanging above my desk. Not sure why they are not in the pictures. Either right before I got the frames or right before I moved and took them down. Gotta track down dates, for that and HAD, ASME, Big events for me.
You just made me look up when Frozen came out… time flies by lol.
Its super cool to see the history of how the MPCNC got started. I’m really glad you started this thread.
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Thanks, It is mostly fun walking down memory lane. A new launch is a lot of work and full of uncertainties so I figured now was a good time to show myself how many times I have done this same thing.
I have more details to put in for sure but the main points are in.
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I don’t know if it’s possible but I think many who missed it first time around would enjoy seeing your interview (I forget the site) if you could post a link.
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