[contactirfu]

Russell - the servo's are not real servo's , these are PMDC motors with encoders - the problem is that for a router there are not suitable as I did not match them to the UHU drives, the sudden change in directions required in case of the wood router result in errors on the drives and this is why I want to move on to steppers which are much more forgiving and also low on costs.

but these servos will be used probably on a mill which one of my friend is building.

RGDS
Irfan

[stef_d]

Same question as i asked on a similar build thread:
How did you make sure that your x axis rails were properly aligned ? do you have any adjustement possible within your welded base ?

[epineh]

Hi Irfan, sorry but I thought I replied to your response to my question...my bad

I know what you mean about getting decent servo's, I have a few but they always seem to be the wrong size for what I am doing...I am doing a retrofit of a really old lathe that I want to add a third (Z) axis to have a milling machine as well, I will be playing with servo drives of different types, I will post details somewhere if it works out. One idea is to use a C40 generator/starter, they have a good commutator with small segments and lots of power, maybe a good servo for heavy applications, for those of us with small budgets, I will keep you posted.

Cheers.

Russell.