Router Options XXL

[LiamN (Liam Newcombe)]

Any sort of enclosure will help, much of the aggravating noise is high frequency from the router and the dust extraction (you didn’t forget the extraction did you?)

There’s a couple of threads about damping down the noise;

Building an enclosure

Greetings all! I haven’t purchased my CNC yet but I’m planning on doing it in a few weeks and I am already getting ready on building in the enclosure. The problem is this CNC machine is going to be inside I’m going to be putting it in a 7‘ x 7‘ walk-in closet of mine. My first question is how thick the walls have to be to cancel most of the sound? I was planning on making 4 to 5 inch thick walls With three-quarter inch thick Baltic Birch plywood and 4 inches of roxul safe and sound sound damp…

Odd CNC ‘enclosure’ decoupling and sound absorption

Hi guys, first post on here but been CNCing since the spring. Currently own a 35x35” Millright Mega V but hoping to get a Shapeoko as a second machine, due to its hackability, this community and documentation of what people have done with their machines. So I’d been thinking for a while of my perfect enclosure design that could house the two machines stacked on two shelves one above the other, before realising that the entranceway area to my house is the perfect size to convert to a ‘CNC room’ …