On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:49 AM, gene heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 12:35:24 AM Igor Chudov did opine: > > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:28 PM, gene heskett <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Anyway, <http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/emc> > > > new toy is left pix in next to the last row. > > > > Looks awesome. I still have not completed my high speed spindle. > > I put a slightly used Bosch solid carbide 1/4" upcut spiral bit in it to > play with this evening, and swept it back & forth over the end of a short > stick of white ash, a moderately hard and dense wood. If I only advance it > about 1/4 of the diameter, the finish is so smooth I could plate it & use > it for a mirror. Absolutely no tear out at the edges of the cut, it will > do great for carving tenons in woodworking. > > I mounted a half inch router bit in my HF grinder and used it to face the sacraficial board on my table. It powered through it nicely. I currently run my HF spindle using a 1/8" endmill 30-90 ipm at 0.1" passes. > I will fault the on-off switch though, that puppy is stiff & not near > enough of a finger purchase to slide it, I hope it breaks in before it > breaks. > > The switch is not one of the better points of this tool. I bought a dual relay board and one day I will hook it up to avoid having to fuss with the switch. > No idea if its a PM field or plane universal motor, but I suspect the > latter. If it was a PM field, I'd hook the mills speed controller to it, > but that would need a 5 amp fuse then, currently the mills own motor is a 2 > amp fuse limit. > I would be interested in donating my spare HF grinder for experimentation if you want to try and figure this out. > > But at 25k rpms, I'd ought to be able to carve at 15-20 ipm as long as its > a climb cut. Pretty fast for that toy mill. > > I have also run 1/4 inch up spiral endills at .75" in MDF due to improper gcoding on my part. Amazingly it powered through that at 20 ipm. I would not recommend that too often. Thanks for sharing your photos. I would love to spend more time on my projects too, but traveling to St. louis keeps me locked up in hotels instead. > I was going to buy a Grizzly G0704, but it has disappeared from their web > page just this past week. For a kilobuck, that was a heck of a good buy. > > -- > Cheers, Gene > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > <http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz> > <http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html> > The two oldest professions in the world have been ruined by amateurs. > -- G.B. Shaw > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the > growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses > are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software > be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker > today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
