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Rebirth of a Denford MIRAC CNC Lathe

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kayzed1:
I was thinking some thing along those lines, when i were a lad :lol: we used to fit the rubber to the frame then insert the glass, last the locking strip...in Mini's and Ford Escorts and the like..
Lyn.

awemawson:
I've actually tried it both ways chaps with equal failure  :bang: Actually I've come to the conclusion that I've left too much gap between the size of the opening and the size of the polycarbonate so will re-make the window a bit bigger.

Today the PS2 sockets arrived allowing me to do the final drilling of the PC mounting escutcheon and give it a coat of paint. I did pick up some sockets a week or two back, but when they arrived they proved impossible to mount from the rear of the panel - I wanted to be able to remove the cable as an assembly rather than have to make it in situ and the PS2 plug end wouldn't fit through the socket mounting hole, and the thread on the socket wasn't enough to penetrate the escutcheon (2 mm)

The new ones have pigtail flying leads and rear mount onto the panel :thumbup: I'm sure that there used to be a male / female bulkhead PS2 fitting but I couldn't find one.

So today the escutcheon has been finalised and given a couple of coats of paint, and the keyboard and mouse PS2 cable assemblies made up ready for when the paint is hard.

Meanwhile my supposedly creamy white paint for the rest of the cabinet has arrived, but looks far too white to me - sample drying as I type.

awemawson:
So with the paint reasonably dry (good stuff this paint!) I've populated the PC escutcheon, and re-routed the cables so at long last I don't have monitor, keyboard, and mouse cables erupting from the open enclosure rear door. So now the door can be closed and all those extraneous cables within have been tidied up  :thumbup:

I made another M6 bolt to celebrate  :lol:

awemawson:
After supper I bent up a little bracket to support the Enclosure Isolator Switch Shaft, as it tended to droop a little and didn't always engage correctly.

Went remarkably well considering the two gin and oranges before and the can of Old Speckled Hen during supper  :clap:

At least now the two parts come together in correct alignment  :thumbup:

awemawson:
Time to sort the stand today:

Lift off using Forklift and strops, then invert, remove castors, slap a coat of paint on, put the castors back on, put it back upright and paint the bits that were previously inaccessible.

All fairly straight forwards. I'm using the brushing version of the chassis paint that I sprayed the panels with - went on OK but a bit gloopy

I'll leave it overnight to harden before putting the machine back on.

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