On Tuesday 25 December 2018 12:21:11 Jon Elson wrote: > On 12/24/2018 10:03 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 24 December 2018 15:07:59 Jon Elson wrote: > >> > The mill is supposed to be here around the 4th. But at > >> > >> 55+ kg, how is one man going to unload it? > >> > >> It might come in several boxes. > > > > I just got another msg from the vendor confirming those measurements > > are in cm. What in tuncket would make it 94cm tall? > > Maybe that is the width? Didn't look that tall in the pics, > for sure. Well, all will become clear when you unbox it.
Yes, its not assembled ack the vendor, so I'll have to build it. > For mini machines, I have a machine with a rectangular > column. I added a ballscrew for the Z axis, and it works > fairly well, although the original Y travel is REALLY > limited, like 4". But, there are retrofits to get more Y > travel. Anyway, that machine is mostly for demos, I use the > Bridgeport for actual work. I occasionally drill holes or > something on the mini. That sounds about like my little HF, but when I rebuilt it useing the LMS bigger table kit, I think I wound up with pretty close to 5" of Y, then lost over an inch when I put the training wheels on the Z. The Y table hits them when the head is down. Sure makes Z work nice though, no more stiction. :) If I ever find that bag of balls, I'll try to fix it again. Not found on ebay these days either. And I have spent some time looking. But a bag of 500 .0635" balls isn't very big and seems to have found a good hiding place. Plus this time when I put the nut back in its carrier, the retainer will get some green locktite and tightened to about 1/16 turn from stripped, then left for the locktite to cure for a few days. it worked loose and the backlash was back up to around 10 thou. And tightening it, where its at, will need a custom wrench invented. Gotta find a way to keep it tight, and green locktite now looks like the "how". Gonna take warmer weather though... > Jon > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
