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Does that include the bearings?

I have been looking at the spindles available on Aliexpress for around $600. Starting with one of those as a "kit" of parts that may need some TLC is appealing.
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Azalin. I am very impressed with your build so far.

Do you know roughly what your costs have been so far?

I recently acquired two harmonic drives and wish to use them to build a 4th and 5th axis head. It will be similar to a doughty drive. The harmonic drives are only the large ring, the flexible cup and...

I realize this is an old thread but it comes up in a Google search.

I was replacing the tapered roller bearing in the spindle due to a grinding noise. The top bearing sounded fine so I left it...

When I ordered my G0619 mill recently, I also ordered a G7154 5" Milling vise. I wasn't really paying attention to the overall size of the vise. It (barely) fits on the table and it is rather tall...

The tear-down and reassembly of the mill is almost complete now. I kinda forgot to take pics in the middle of the reassembly. Even though the wires and pc boards are clearly marked, I took plenty of...

I have posted the pics so far in my photobucket album.

New lathe and mill pictures by SpookyDad - Photobucket
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I went with the 602 and the 619. They arrived Wednesday. I am still cleaning them

It isn't that I can't cut threads, it is more that there is so much slop in everything that the threads are almost unusable. When I got the lathe, I didn't know enough to determine whether I had a...

I have owned a HF 7x10 Mini Lathe since 2000. It has been a love/hate relationship as it has frustrated me, as much as it has taught me. I have tried many of the tuning and adjustments available on...

I check out Bakelite, WAY too expensive. Bakelight was used for a lot of radio equipment, mostly field telephones, but it was cast under pressure.

Painting the MDF is what I am doing now. The...

I make reproduction antique radio face plates. I have been making them out of MDF but I am concerned about long term durability. They are subjected occasionally to the wet weather and I am worried...

I have a 24x48 Joes 2006 router and I am using a Porter Cable 1/2" router.

I was wondering if there was some sort of toolholder system that I can use. I am not looking for any sort of automatic...

is there a thread for the setup and tuning of this style machine? I have some questions.

Neil

No. I never did. I did get a full refund after 45 days. The refund was timely and without a hitch.

Neil

Is it possible to put a chamfer on an opening without changing to a dedicated chamfer bit? Can a hole be countersunk?

I noticed on the menu that there is a "new chamfer" item but it seems
to be...

I was considering putting a 3/4" MDF sheet on top of the torsion box of my table as a spoil board. Then it occurred to me if I machined t-slots into the MDF I could also use it as a way of holding...

I was running a test piece from Vector Art 3D machining. It is the fleur d'li. The first roughing pass went fine. During the second pass, the stepper motors seemed to stall for about 2 seconds and...

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hobbytoolplans was the one I was thinking about.

A few weeks ago I was surfing links off of CNCZone. I ended up on a site for a tool holder for Porter Cable routers. He was selling them for around $10-$15. Now I thought I had saved it as a favorite...

When building your own woodworking machine, do you install limit switches?
Is this overkill?

Ok the videos helped a lot but the problem was not covered there.

The problem was in the motor outputs section. the ports for the step and dir
were set to 0 instead of 2. The port is in reference...

The port address is now correct. Windows reported the address to
be 378. I tried the steptest.exe and out of desperation, tried all port
addresses. On the 3BC setting the motors started moving.
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I purchased a 3 axis kit with the 269oz motors and power supply.
I have assembled everything into the case. All connections were
double checked and seemed fine.
I set the vref voltage to 3.35v and...

Ok that makes it a lot more clear. The article indicates, "...the value should never exceed 67% of the total...". So the 5.0 amps would be 2/3 of the 7.5 amps rated. I think I will buy the kit and...

Is there a tutorial/website/set of instructions on how the transformer/bridge rectifier/capacitor(s) would go together? I think this is (sadly) pretty basic stuff as far as electronics theory goes,...

Ok I found the following transformer: http://www.mpja.com/category/Transformers/24V_CT_(12-0-12)10A_TRANSFORMER_7846_TR.asp

Can this be used without any additional components?

I am not afraid of soldering, but I think that is a little beyond my comfort zone. I am looking for a solution with plenty of guidance. I am not looking for the absolute lowest cost solution.

Joe do you have a part number for the 24v 10a power supply?
I can't find it on MJP&A's site. Maybe I am searching for the wrong thing.

I have a 2ft by 4 ft MDF table with a 1.5 hp Porter Cable Router. I am looking to mostly do wood carving but would like to be able to do aluminum occasionally. Actually I cheated and got an old table...