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He is still working on printing the mount for the bf30 motor for the mill :stickpoke

found this on cnccookbook.

The Home Machinist! • View topic - 4 X 6 bar feeder
CNC Cookbook: Blog, August - September 2008

Lol. I hear you. When I was going to school for MMT they said all these machinist would be retiring and there would be a shortage of machinist. Well that turned out not to be true.
O well,...

I have a question? Is it fair that a machine shop phases 24 bridgeports and 21 (3 shifts) skilled machinist and replaced them with 4 VMC’s and 1 programmer and 6 (3 shifts) operators?
That is 20...

I have several products from Glacern tool. I have a hobby shop, and I have noticed several things:
There are many choices. I have chosen Glacern for my vices because of a few factors. Quality...

How about a endmill holder. Here is one for $70. Glacern Machine Tools - Endmill Holders
After shipping you will have enough for a 12 pack.

It must have been a mistake. They did short me a pulley, but after 2 emails they shipped one out to me. I have always had good luck with them. CoB

Luis Van Damme How cool would it be if you started your own thread, then we could read your progress without getting hoss’s thread hi jacked. :)

Respectfully CoB

:idea:That looks like a great part for some local jr. high or high school kids to do. Bring it down there and have them help you.:idea:

:stickpoke

somthing done!!! yea the 3rd pic is not the right plate, but it was close for the pic, lol

I have 1,000,000,000 carbon credits for sale at 50% OFF!! act now! Send me a check and I will send you all that you want!

bubba, do you have any pics how you did you Z axis??

That is always true, you always can find a need for more. But this mill will become a dedicated machine, I have some brackets that I have been farming out, and now I have some more free time. So...

:cheers:
I have one, it has the travel that I need. It will not require a lot of Z travel. So it will be great. There are people that have made some great parts with a round colum.
Plus if it...

So here is my G0705 thread. I am going to be converting it to CNC, and would like to see any Pictures any one has about any improvements they have done.

Why? I need the longer travel then the...

How much is it worth to you? What is the spindle runout? Backlash all the way around? What does the head sound like? Where do you live? (Availability depending on where you are)
Imagine you are...

Good news to all, I am back in the US after a short job over the big blue, so now lets get some work done. I just landed and went threw customs. I will be back home in 5 hours. So my goal is to...

High school is a place to “express” your self. Collage or trade schools is the real world.

About 11 years ago I went to a community college for machine tool technology I
remember it being a...

I got the mill all dissembled. I got the flash Milled away. Here is my g0704 on my g0705 next to my 6 in GMT vise…..looks kind of small hu? lol

fyi dave's mill is on ebay right now

ehttp://cgi.ebay.com/CNC-MILL-AUTOMATIC-TOOL-CHANGER-/180623844892?pt=BI_Mills&hash=item2a0e05261c

fun fact

cool beans with the rf. I did not want to grind away the flash to fit the ball nut, and since i am drilling a hole in the back for ball screw, i though, why not.

http://cdn7.grizzly.com/specsheets/g0704_ds.pdf
265 lbs total
about 172 for what i said, plus 77 lbs for the stand.
16 lbs for every thing eles. all abouts.

imperial system is my game here in the good old usa. Pounds. :)

one more. just geting rid of some flash.

here is the g0704 base on my g0705 next to my 6in vise. my GMT vise is bigger then the g0704 base, lol. just a fun pic.

-CoB

Here is the weights of my machine (With all the components removed):

Base 41.6
Head 28.9
Cross slide 9.2
Table 45.2
Column ...

Nice to see a clean shop!!! ;) I also like the open space. it is nice to be able to move around frelly. dont get me wrong, that VF-2 would look really nice in my one car garage shop :bat:

2 sets of Ball screws showed up to day. one for me and one for a fellow cnc zoner.

I cant wait!!! Lets get these screws a-turning

Thanks bob.

3 bolt mod to the head. easy 10 min thing to do. I also did the oil groves on the head slide. Now just have to drill the holes and tap for the oil line. come on enco!!! I hope they ship...