[groundhog719]

Pretty much finished moving the electronics of my Syil X4+ from the back.

The first picture is the 24"x24" NEMA enclosure. A little big to be sure, but I had the room and the box. The electronics are from the back of the mill (I decided not to move the read-out or controls from the front of the mill). The large enclosure leaves plenty of room for future expansion.

Pic 2 is the enclosure today. I still need to wire mill enclosure lights and flood cooling (when I finish that).

Pic 3 is the left side of the mill in the enclosure. I cut the original tin back along the internal angle (that the partition screws to) and welded a new back plate. The result is that the tin back only sticks out about 1 1/2" from the base.

Pic 4 is the piece I cut off the tin back (along with removing the screw-on rear housing).

5 is the intermediate box. I wanted the entire mill to be able to be broken down for moving easily. Since I would need bulkhead conduit fittings anyway it seemed much easier to just terminate the original wires in an intermediate box and use it instead of bulkhead fittings. I "spliced" the wires with European style terminal strips from Radio Shack and ran the other end into the control electronics through water tight flex conduit.

6 and 7 are the front and rear of the new control box.

Some things I might do different; move the MPG plug to the front of the box, install several switched outlets with individual front switches (instead of 1 four gang), use fewer and smaller flex conduits (although 1/2" was as small as I could get locally), use both NEMA boxes with doors rather than removable covers.

What I did right? took lots and lots of pictures before I removed a single wire, used a shrink tube labeler & ferrules & panel punch from work.

All in all, not too hard of a job. Took longer than I expected though.

Any questions send me a message

Groundhog

PS. I'm about finished with the mill enclosure. I'll post another thread on that in awhile.

[john_t_h]

Great work! Thanks for the post. I've got a few ideas on how to do mine now.


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