On Saturday 03 January 2009, Kent A. Reed wrote: >Gentle persons: > >I know I should poll CNCZONE instead, but this is a much more friendly >crowd and the rate of useful information exchange is much higher. > >I recently got a Tower Hobbies catalog to look for an RC gift to my son >and/or his son. I stumbled across the brushless motors section and >thought I was in nirvana. The current discussion about the use of these >motors as spindle drives has brought me sharply back to reality. > >I am a hobbyist who's still wallowing in the world of the Dremel/Proxxon >class of rotary tools while I get comfortable with the CNC aspects of >machining but I'm always on the lookout for suitable spindles and motors >to plan on moving up to. Do reliable, low-cost solutions exist? > >I assume that Gene's response to Jon about a Rockwell/Precise >spindle---"Something us hobby types would gravitate to because of the >cost. :) "---was said in jest.
Something that wasn't actually because I was thinking of braced up dremels or Proxxon's. OTOH, I imagine the Rockwell/Precise offering is also outragiously priced, way out of my league, so that most certainly should have been taken as a jest. But at the time, I was serious without taking time to consider the whole picture. :) >Regards, >Kent > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >-- _______________________________________________ >Emc-users mailing list >Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- 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) "What do you do when your real life exceeds your wildest fantasies?" "You keep it to yourself." -- Broadcast News ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
