One more concern I think is worth mentioning is that temps significantly below freezing can damage electronic components like electrolytic capacitors, shortening their lifespan. There are a couple of these on the controller. And condensation when it warms up can also be a risk. If you see moisture on other steel/iron tools in your shop when you first get in, be sure to give everything adequate time to reach equilibrium again. It should also be noted that propane actually releases water vapor and increases humidity when it burns.
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If you have an 80mm spindle then here is what it says about it.
Environmental Requirements
The spindle kit should be operated when the ambient temperature is between 15°C/59°F and 30°C/86°F.
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Thank you everyone for your replies and advice. I have decided to put the Shapeoko in one of the spare bedrooms in the house. It gets heated in the winter and has AC in the summer. I have all my bases covered now.
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I hope you are considering the dust generated by the machines and coming up with some sort of air filtration to keep that out of the rest of your house. I have my machine in 30’ x 50’ shop and even with an overhead filtration and Hepa filters on the vacuum I still get really fine sawdust pretty much over the entire shop. In a much smaller area, the air filtration would work better.
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I had not put a lot of thought into dust collection at this time.
I have a different CNC machine in the room right now that I am replacing with the Shapeoko. I don’t have a lot of time on that CNC and I am not happy with it, hence the reason why I am replacing it. I have been using a large shopvac on that machine that has worked well so far. However, now you have me a little concerned that you brought this up.
The Sweepy and Sweepy Pro are amazing at how well they work when adjusted to fit the current tool/part geometry — pair them w/ a good cyclone and a quiet vacuum w/ HEPA filter, and well, the space around my SO5 Pro in the basement is probably the cleanest area in the house.
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I don’t even know where to start. Like I said I have a shop-vac and it pulls a lot of air and I thought that would be enough.
I never considered getting a cyclone or a HEPA filter.
I am open to some inexpensive suggestions.
The other issue is the noise level. I have the compact router with the fairly quiet Dewalt shop vac and cyclone and it is loud. I wear hearing protection when go anywhere near it in my second garage. My wife would definitely not want this noise level in the house. She also would not want the dust issues in the house even with the good vacuum and cyclone. Even with the dust collection on there is quite a bit to clean up after each job.
An enclosure over the CNC with sound dampening material such as Rockwool Comfortboard80 does a good job of keeping all dust contained for the vac to suck up & noise levels significantly reduced.
But for a 4x4’ machine, that gets to be a pretty big box.