I'm curious to hear from anyone who's done this before...
It's quite easy to remove the hot end and extruder from my Prusa and I can put something like a Dremel rotary tool or engraver in place with vertical gravity feed (with a little effort). I'm assuming that most of the people who do this are more interested in CNC in wood and other materials whereas engraving copper (and other flat metals) is mostly 2D.
The things I'm interested in are what type of tools have you used (to keep the cost down but get good clean lines)? Some engravers meant for hand-held use produce a lot of vibration which needs to be either dampened or might make it unusable.
I don't need to control tool speed etc. for now, just want to affix an engraver to the X carriage in place of the extruder / hot end assembly and turn the tool on and off manually, then run G code.
It's quite easy to remove the hot end and extruder from my Prusa and I can put something like a Dremel rotary tool or engraver in place with vertical gravity feed (with a little effort). I'm assuming that most of the people who do this are more interested in CNC in wood and other materials whereas engraving copper (and other flat metals) is mostly 2D.
The things I'm interested in are what type of tools have you used (to keep the cost down but get good clean lines)? Some engravers meant for hand-held use produce a lot of vibration which needs to be either dampened or might make it unusable.
I don't need to control tool speed etc. for now, just want to affix an engraver to the X carriage in place of the extruder / hot end assembly and turn the tool on and off manually, then run G code.