Generally stone is cut with diamond tooling and lots of water. Spindle speeds are relatively low, between 1500 and 8000RPM depending on the tool.
A router will work for a while but the water will kill it pretty quickly. As Ben says, the dust/mud gets everywhere so you need to overbuild and pay lots of attention to keeping it out of the screws and rails. Obviously rust is also a fairly major problem. Make sure you have grease nipples on your ball nuts and slides so you can regularly grease them. If you want to do a lot of machining, making up some sort of central lube system would be worthwhile. Les On 03/09/12 21:44, Erik Friesen wrote: > What would be the minimum setup needed for doing an inlay on limestone? > > My dad in law was asking about this, and I don't see a lot of easy info > about this. > > Could we use a slow router, say 6000rpm, and some type of diamond bit, and > take all day to do the job? > > Is water a requirement? > > Is there some basic reason why a typical cnc router setup won't work? > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
