Hmm - lots of very good thoughts and suggestions so far, obviously lots of "out of the box" thinkers here as expected.
I do have two colleagues who are unabashed hoarders of stuff, so maybe I'll ask them about stepper motors. Ralph: > You could use a Gecko G510 for a tidy little package. You could > use a NEMA17 to drive the spindle as well as X and Z, then you > could have a C axis and amaze people with tricks like machining > offset lobes on a cam, or use a flex-shaft Dremel-type tool for > live tooling. If you mean the G540 - I use one on my Sieg KX1-NU mill, and it works really well with the Mesa 5i25. Hmmm - replace the motor with a stepper - there is the "stepper head" build going on in Model Engineers Workshop, so this is an interesting idea. The little Unimats are not very solid, IIRC (I had one as a teenager in the '70s), but this one is a shorter bed, so maybe might be stronger? (less flex in the bed "rods", I'd assume) I can see this little "weekend warrior" project turning into something rather larger! ;-) JohnS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
