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| davro:
Hi All Though I would share my adventures of converting my SIEG-Super-X2P-HiTorque-Mill Please note I am a complete newbie to this machining business and never even used a milling machine before this one, treat me gentle ;) So far I have bought a SIEG Mill and Lathe along with an average computer installed LinuxCNC. Bought a ParPort breakout board some 1.5 amp stepper motors and drivers and power supplies managed to wire it all up without blowing anything up (this still amazes me ;) balanced a monitor on top of the Mill and am playing around with GCode doing lines, squares, circles and such. Currently I have the XY axis working and calibrated to a fashion and I am now looking into the Z axis, here is a list of videos on youtube documenting the build so far ... Cheers |
| mexican jon:
Looking Good :thumbup: :thumbup: |
| awemawson:
Welcome. You will probably find that if you hold your cutters in a 'normal' Jacob's type drill chuck that they tend to pull out so your Z position will sink. :bugeye: You need a collet chuck. |
| davro:
--- Quote from: awemawson on October 28, 2015, 05:58:19 PM ---Welcome. You will probably find that if you hold your cutters in a 'normal' Jacob's type drill chuck that they tend to pull out so your Z position will sink. :bugeye: You need a collet chuck. --- End quote --- Cheers for the advice I really do appreciate it, I have a complete set of ER32 Collets with an R8 taper shank was using the chuck for holding a Sharpy Pen while I was playing with some GCode circles :) |
| davro:
Finally got the milling machine up and running including the Z axis! Had a very enjoyable day in the garage with Adam a very smart 10 year old learning gcode and doing are engineers dance called the Squid according to Adam :) After checking out most of the tools in the garage, Adam would like and air compressor for Christmas lol |
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