Danny where are you located, if you are in the Austin Tx area I am just 
60 miles north of you.

My spindle is belt driven by an AC servo motor max 8000 RPM. While I do 
have an addon 20000 RPM Spindle for Micro Machining it is not ATC capable.

Hubert


On 5/11/17 11:42 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> Which spindle did you get?  Options that looked appealing to me:
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-8KW-ATC-Water-Cooled-Automatic-Tool-Change-Spindle-Motor-ISO20-220V-5-4A-CNC-/112396640759?hash=item1a2b5ca1f7:g:5UIAAOSwawpXtUTl
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/2HP-1-5kw-24000RPM-ISO20-3-bearings-Automatic-Tool-Changes-ATC-Spindles-/262522320679?hash=item3d1f8cb727:g:9NYAAOSwRJ9Xhg6v
>
> Danny
>
> ---- hubert <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Jan did one for my Mill.  It uses BT30 tool holders.  I am not familiar
>> with tool holding on the router.  We used the carousel component for
>> storage and presentation of the tool.  We used pneumatic cylinders for
>> draw bar and movement of the tool to and from the spindle.  We also had
>> to make sure the spindle stopped in the right orientation for the tool
>> change.
>>
>> Hubert
>>
>>
>> On 5/11/17 8:33 AM, Les Newell wrote:
>>> I have done a lathe ATC, which was fairly painless. I have a router that
>>> is due for a retrofit and it has an ATC. I'll probably be starting on it
>>> sometime around July/August.
>>>
>>> There are various ways to do tool changers. My lathe ATC uses a Python
>>> script which I wrote as a quick hack though it works so well I never
>>> bothered to turn it into a proper hal module. For the router I'll
>>> probably use ClassicLadder.
>>>
>>> Les
>>>
>>> On 09/05/2017 21:17, [email protected] wrote:
>>>> I'm hoping to do an ATC router (primarily wood) next.  Does anyone have 
>>>> experience doing that with LinuxCNC?
>>>>
>>>> I do see some $2000 spindle options.  Any recommendations?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Danny
>>>>
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