My Anilam converted BP that is the weak point the little connection to the quill. Do you have any thing drawn up of what your considering?
John On 3/2/2013 11:14 AM, Kirk Wallace wrote: > On Sat, 2013-03-02 at 15:36 +0000, andy pugh wrote: >> On 2 March 2013 15:10, Roland Jollivet <roland.jolli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Instead of trying to snug up the quill, mill/grind the front of the machine >>> to be parallel with the quill. Now you can mount linear slides and a plate >>> that grabs the quill at the bottom! >> I think what you are seeing is just the way that the CNC feed has been >> coupled to the quill. >> >> However, that doesn't mean that your idea isn't a good one. >> > My Shizuoka, and I suspect the mill on eBay, are just like a Bridgeport. > The quill has a post that travels in a slot in the front of the housing. > A ball screw drives the post. I've seen Bridgeport conversions that > drive the post, and others that have a clamp added to the bottom of the > quill. It's hard to find a place on the Bridgeport to mount the motor > and belt and still have access to the head adjustments. This is another > example of how converting an existing CNC machine is much easier and > cheaper than converting a manual machine. For my Bridgeport and > Cincinnati mill, I am hoping to make a new head that replaces the quill > with a rigid spindle which mounts to a dovetail slide between the > spindle and ram. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
