It might be fine for really light engraving, think Dremmel tool. But for any meaningful carving I don't think the bearings in the nose of the shaft with be up to snuff, and any milling will be out of the question. If you want an improvement any spindle motor (even the cheap Chinese ones) will be a huge step up from any consumer grade router motor. That said we still use the old Rockwell style Porter Cable 3.25hp router on a several light duty carving machines at work (noisy buggers). They'll last about 3yrs of 8 hour shifts if you are careful not to load the bearings to much changing bits and don't crash them. Once they won't run anymore we send em out to get rebuilt by the factory, and they charge us half the price of a new one no matter how much they have to replace. (Often the only original parts that come back are some of the plastic bits and the chuck.) Yes, we do try to make sure they are thoroughly destroyed before sending them out.
----- Original Message ----- From: "andy pugh" <[email protected]> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 2:53:38 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] spindle for table top mill On 18 May 2015 at 19:42, <[email protected]> wrote: > A spindle with a flexible drive might reduce the load on the gantry and make > changing motors quick I think that the lack of torsional stiffness might cause problems on interrupted cuts. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
