OT: more "heavy metal" in the garage !!!, Bridgeport CNC ;) |
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OT: more "heavy metal" in the garage !!!, Bridgeport CNC ;) |
Mueller |
Feb 11 2004, 12:01 AM
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914 Freak! Group: Members Posts: 17,146 Joined: 4-January 03 From: Antioch, CA Member No.: 87 Region Association: None |
Well, i finally moved up in the world and picked up a "real" mill to add to my home shop......2200+lbs of cold steel/iron (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smash.gif)
I had gotten out bid by hundreds of dollars and at the last minute, the highest bidder retracted his bid and I won it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) The mill looks perfect (not at home yet, I inspected it at the shop), the biggest challange will be figureing out how to use the darn thing since it has no provisions to manually move any of the axis and the CNC controller is pretty ancient...... I'll also have to convert the main spindle motor from 3 phase to 2 phase or use a static or rotary converter........ (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) My workshop pad should be going in this weekend, originally I was only going to pour it 4" thick, now i think I'll make it 6" thick with more rebar......... |
Mueller |
Dec 31 2004, 01:49 PM
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914 Freak! Group: Members Posts: 17,146 Joined: 4-January 03 From: Antioch, CA Member No.: 87 Region Association: None |
I finally got the mill into my workshop, bad part was that I had to angle the head to get the thing out of the garage..that was easy, moving the head back to the normal position was a different story...I broke a damn worm gear behind the head (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/headbang.gif)
the head weighs in the 250+ pound easily.....the hard part will be getting the head off without crushing myself...I was going to build a frame to lift it off, but I was lazy and figured out another method.... ...wood and expandable foam !!!!! now the head is off and I have to figure out to access and remove the worm gear (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wacko.gif) this is a picture of the head being supported by my "mickey mouse" engineering (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif) notice the "tilt"? for normal use the spindle should be straight up and down Attached image(s) |
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