Originally Posted by
Craig Day
What sort of gantry clearance do you have now? I wonder if it's changed at all to the current stinger II? Their website states 7" at the moment. When I talked to Cody he said this should be more like 6" with the table top installed. I think this should be enough vertical clearance for all of my planned uses. I would worry about the rigidity of the system with a raised gantry when machining the harder materials.
I think it's about 6" but I don't recall specifically. Cody knows the specs for the new iteration of the Stinger machines (4x4 and 4x8) Note that the Desktop is no longer using the Stinger name.
BTW, one major change with the new version is the change from WinCNC to a Centroid controller with digital communication. That's good in many ways, both physical/reliability related as well as better resolution, which again, may be very good for your specific application as machining non-ferrou metal tends to require increased accuracy over wood based materials due to the much smaller pass depths that have to be repeated for full depth, etc.
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Michael, the Stingers use very heavy aluminum for the gantries and they are indeed built like tanks. They did go to steel in the truly industrial machines up the levels, but for affordability, the heavy alumiunum is great. It's not anything like the "kit put together" type aluminum machines...it's heavy half-inch thick stuff that in some cases is more than used in heavy dump truck beds.
Last edited by Jim Becker; 01-26-2024 at 2:45 PM.
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