Surely you could hire a buff mechanic from down the road and totally supervise/instruct him what to do?
On Sun, 26 Jun 2022 at 16:45, dave engvall <dengv...@charter.net> wrote: > Hi, > My Mazak V5 has been down for a few years. First for brushes on the > spindle motor and then a much more serious broken belleville stack. > Unfortunately, the spindle on this model comes out from the top which > means pulling all the hydraulics and the spindle motor/transmission and > getting them out of the way. I don't see that is it possible to replace > the stack w/o fussing with all of the above. > Note: I'm 4 score and 4 and not as energetic as I used to be. > A couple of solutions present themselves but neither are ideal. > Simply use the M6 shcs that hold the dogs in place to secure the CAT40. > Balance and adequate strength/safety would seem to present problems. > The other solution is to simple punt and epoxy a CAT40 in place and live > with the restrictions. > Candidate CAT40 is a SK16 with holders for end mills up to M16 and at > least consider adding an ER20//ER16 with a M16 stub (custom dia) to > drill/ream. I have sets of ER20 and ER16 collets. > Note: spindle is 4000 rpm and 5 HP geared. > > If anyone has a better idea I'm all ears. > As usual TIA: I seem to be out of easy/ideal solutions. > > Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
