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while i'm at it here's a pic today of the setup. my *huge* 8" vise seems to fit ok and everything else is holding up well so far. haven't had any difficulties with the machine at all once the motors...

thanks for the compliment mate. was a bit of effort to get it the way it is, but i'm quite pleased with the result.

now for hockey pucks! a picture is worth a thousand words! i used a hole saw on...

i'm not following you... it's bolted down so it doesn't walk anywhere!

good question tommy!

i spent some time recently tuning my 320's by ear and they seem to be working well... my motors were humming like crazy and i don't have access to an oscilloscope so there...

thanks gentlemen. i ran it for another 10 hours today and temperatures seemed to level off about 140. cuts were a little lighter today. i would like to see it a little cooler, but as you mentioned...

well. not too much to say. a shot of mine below (it's in there i promise). and a link to my build thread.

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=88517
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almost forgot. i have a question for you guys!

1) what head temperatures are you running?
2) what type of oil?

i am running whatever oil it came with, but plan on changing right away, and...

i kinda forgot to update this thread to let you guys know i'm alive. more importantly the cnc machine is alive! i've got about 20 hours (so says the hour meter) on it now and am very pleased with the...

no steel frame at all. i isolated it from the machine with hockey pucks... [insert crazy canadian joke now]... they are about 3/8" thicker than the plywood and are great viration isolators... looks...

hi pete.

i built the enclosure out of 1.5 x 1.5 square, then screwed 1/2" ply to the outside. for waterproofing i first sprayed a coat of polyester resin, then one layer of matting with polyester...

thanks guys.

the servos are supplied by aaron and as he said "are big enough to seriously break sh*t!". not sure of their exact sizes. that seemed good enough for me ;-] ballscrews are rockford...

hi all.

i've been about here for a while, but don't post too often so i had better re-introduce myself. my name is colin. mechanical engineer during the day, car racer/make stuff/get into trouble...

i work for a company that was recently acquired by mercedes. we have used pro-e forever and will be adopting catia over the next year as it is mercedes gold standard. from what i have seen thus far...

he he... that was fast! :rainfro:

now this is a project i'd like to see! throttle bodies are beaty.

what did you end up doing to the ballnuts to get the backlash sorted?

thanks mate. i almost popped a blood vessel when i couldn't find it. good to hear we're getting even more support. one more positive about owning an industrial hobbies machine!

maybe i'm off base, but have you looked at industrial hobbies? not production, but great for removing flash.

i built a little cup for the drain and filled it with steel wool. filters out most of the chips. the rest can be scooped out of the coolant sump.

hey zumba... finish it!

the new mills have bigger z axis flanges (more rigid heads), hardened ways, and other things that make them a bit better. assembled your mill (and i have one too so i'm...

not sure about adding bearings, but isn't abec7 a little excessive? what do you feel the benefits are as opposed to the abec1/3 is? they're $20... and the 7's are almost $600 for a pair.

never mind... found the link is still active on the ih site. here it is copied (so i don't lose it again).

does anyone have the bearing part numbers for this spindle? looks like aaron took them off his web site when he shut down the shop.

what do you lot think of using a 1/2hp, 1200gpm sump pump for flood cooling an ih mill? hmmmm?

i'm thinking of choking it from 1-1/4" npt down to 3/4", then feed two click together coolant tubey...

nicely done bohica. what is the main frame made of? would love to see it once the mill is in place.

says it all...

mine was square, but there was a substantial amount of bondo in there

do you know how the mice feel? i do dammit! all your comments have been recorded and we expect your defamatory comments will bite you in the rump once our class action suit has been filed. the mice...

cat 30? ??? tell me more. please?

i use two campbell boards and one of his relay boards with my ih cnc. can't recommend him enough. excellent product and... you do get what you pay for!