So…..the next step was to start machining the endplates for the X and Y axes. We had some 15mm aluminium plate hanging around from an aborted CNC router upgrade project that we were going to do but...
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So…..the next step was to start machining the endplates for the X and Y axes. We had some 15mm aluminium plate hanging around from an aborted CNC router upgrade project that we were going to do but...
Hi Peter, thanks for the encouragement.
Just seen your Milli thread, all I can say is WOW! We did look at composites before we got Matilda when we were weighing up the options, but we were nowhere...
So we spent the last few days finishing cleaning and inspecting the table, and reassembling the mill. Took a bit of playing around with the backlash compensation setting of the leadscrew nuts. We...
We had read reports on this forum and elsewhere that this design of mill suffers from a “springy lash” reportedly due to the yoke design. We had got a little annoyed with how the DRO would register a...
Now that we sealed the sump, there was quite a lot of unused space inside the column. So we decided to fabricate an insert in the form of an enclosure for the 2 vfds. This would ensure that the...
Following the relatively smooth experience with the head, and getting her back up and running to machine some parts, we turned attention to the lower half of the machine. The sump was the area we...
This is my first post on the forum, but have been lurking for some time gathering information and knowhow, so I thought I’d share our (mis)adventures with our current project(s).
We shut down our...