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milling spindle upgrade
bertie_bassett:
plate is about 9mm thick and bolted down to all 4 corners of the angle frame of the cabinet, ill have to see how it goes when I get some tooling, can always be braced from below if required. or the base repaired. though I quite like the height its at now belts are about on my eye line
vtsteam:
Well that was quick! It does look nice! :beer:
bertie_bassett:
--- Quote from: vtsteam on April 04, 2015, 09:18:53 PM ---Well that was quick! It does look nice! :beer:
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Wasn't all that much to fix really, just the screw and nut.
Managed to find a small precision vice I made as an apprentice and a t slot slot clamp which fits perfectly so thats a start on tooling :) will probably build my own vice for it along with everything else I need.
Collets and cutters are first on the list though!
Best I start on the other jobs, and many finish off the lathe milling spindle
bertie_bassett:
not made any real progress since last week, was going to do some today, but after working 23 hours solid I decided to go to bed!
have orderd up a collet set from arc got 6 10 12 and 16mm. as thought that would be a reasonable start. also order up a range of 4 flute hss mill from richon to play with, so now just waiting on bits to arrive.
I did start making some adjustments and measuring of backlash, looks like I might need new gib strips as they go in further then I think they should also need to look at the slipt nuts on the x+y as they have been drilled but not tapped?? so plenty to keep me occupied.
oh and got to build a starter panel for it. original had reverse, but I cant see any reall reason to have reverse on a mill?
PekkaNF:
--- Quote from: bertie_bassett on April 08, 2015, 01:59:54 PM ---..... original had reverse, but I cant see any reall reason to have reverse on a mill?
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I can imagine reverse used on threading, but don't the new ones have button on the down feed lever?
Pekka
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