[gcofieldd]

Where did you buy these fittings with valves? I can not find them on e-Bay.

The fittings you see in the last picture are composed of three different parts.

I got the push-to-connect fittings from McMaster Carr.

I got the right angle and check valves from:

Product Catalog | Beswick Engineering

[gcofieldd]

I upgraded the mount for my Fogbuster and thought I would share some pics of it--really happy with how it turned out.

[X2cnc]

Beswick Engineering

How much did they cost? Beswick wants me to "create an account" before they'll tell.

[DonKes]

How much did they cost? Beswick wants me to "create an account" before they'll tell.

Sounds like they are not very proud of their prices.

Don

[MrBean_pm]

Ha, just read through your log again, what an inspiration Been a whiles since I last posted here.

Cannot wait for the next instalment!

Cheers,
Beano

[Azalin]

Any news on this project?

[gcofieldd]

Hey,

Sorry for not posting much. I have been putting stuff up on Instagram.
I have been inching forward with the linear rail conversion and have been doing some other stuff.
I will post an update with everything in a couple of weeks. I am heading out of town right now.

[gcofieldd]

Sorry for not posting much, but I have been plugging along on the mill. I am still doing the linear conversion on my mill and have been slowly working towards that. The conversion will cause me to redesign the enclosure for my mill since I am switching to a larger table. I have already had the extra table I bought from Precision Mathews machined for rails. I upgraded my compressor to one sold by Home Depot. The brand is Husky and it lets me run my drawbar at 150 PSI. Once I got the new compressor, I increased the capacity of my Belleville washers to 3780 LBF. I am using a double stack of 1890 LBF washers. I don’t get tool pullout anymore. The other thing I did was put together a new spindle. The spindle I had from grizzly did not have an alignment screw for the R8 collet. The new ones do. This may not seem important, but what was happening was every time I took the R8 collet out and put it back in it would wear or score the bore of my spindle in a different place. This caused some bad runout. I was able to fix the old spindle by lapping it against an R8 setscrew tool holder. I would recommend checking your spindle regardless by bluing the inside and checking it against a good tool holder. I upgraded to Mach Standard Mill and got a touch probe. Outside of a new spindle motor, and drawbar, this has been the best thing I have done to my mill. The combination of having a tool table setup with a touch probe as the master tool saves a lot of time. It makes the mill a lot more fun to use and now my chamfers are even when I flip the part. It is better than my Haimer which will not hold a zero. Here are the pictures from what I have been up to.

Getting my tools and hardware organized:







Putting together a new spindle:





Making a spanner wrench for my spindle:





Got a new touch probe:

[gcofieldd]

Wiring in the touch probe:











Setting up my tool table:



Got a bunch of new tool holders:



Got a new VFD with encoder feedback card (getting ready for the linear conversion):





Finalizing the design for the linear conversion:





And here is where I am at today (getting ready to start making parts):





Oh, and I bought a Brother TC-225 to fixup when I have time:



Youtube Video:

[gcofieldd]

Oh, and here is my table machined for linear rails:

[Kenny Duval]

I wouldn't give up my touch probe and touch plate or Mach Standard Mill. All worth their expense. I don't even pre-measure tools. I issue an m6 t253 to insert the probe. Measure it as part of the tool change, call next tool...measure...wash, rinse and repeat. Most often I just measure during the tool change when running the part even for tools in TTS holders. I'm just simple that way.

[Azalin]

It is an old thread but I still want to ask. How much backlash with the single ball nuts do you have especially on X and Y ?