Bit more on this tonight.....

Thinking about Ralphs predicament in only having one handle I decided to do some re-thinking. Besides I belive the whole set-up will be more stable with the changes I have made tonight.
I ditched the delrin coupler and turned a new one from alloy.
I wanted a good fit so I used my bore gauges for a change to size the bore as I was going along. In fact it turned out so exact than when I tried the freshly machined and still warm coupler on the shaft, the cold shaft cooled it and I had quite a job to get it off again !!!


This will be fixed to the mill shaft with an 8mm grub screw

Next I decided that I needed a mounting plate for the motor, I decided to use a piece of MDF for the mockup and see how it goes. This could then be the template for the real thing later.
Note the pointy spotters for marking the hole locations on the MDF


I didn't take any pic's of making the board, but you'll see it later.
Now I needed a way to mount the motor board to the mill. So off with the leadscrew bearing block, marked it up for drilling and tapping to 10mm.

Sometimes things just ain't big enough, so you have to improvise


A pair of tubes

Ends threaded to 10mm

Studs fitted to the leadscrew bearing block

And two tubes fitted.
Two inserts made with 6mm threaded ends

These slide inside the tubes and are a snug fit

Motor board fitted onto the sliders


Slide the motor onto the gear wheel to engage

Slide back to dis-engage

Simple pimple

And this nut stops it falling off, motor board slides to the nut when dis-engaged.

Another view