Beavermill conversion to CNC

[John S]

No I am still looking.
It was a tiny picture as it came off Craigs list when the machine was up for sale after the owners death.
It looked like a casting as the lower bolts were short ones and sunk into cast pockets at the side.
The head was part of a J head in that it used the spindle and quill and had the varispeed motor arrangement at the rear.

Still looking.

[Andre]

John with the riser you mean the Z axis i supposed ?
Because I did a complete redesign of it on my machine and if you want some more pictures I can provide.

[John S]

It was a conventional manual bridgy with nod and tilt head but it had a horizontal spindle thru the riser, front to back.

[Andre]

After the bolts were finished we put on the turret.

[Andre]

The next thing I wanted to do was rebuilding the spindle.
But first we had it disassembled.

[Andre]

And some more of the same.

[Andre]

And more pictures

[Andre]

This was part of the dismantling .
Now we going to modify it some and put it back together.

[Andre]

First measure the part and make some notes and later I made some extra holes in it to be used in a later stage for mounting a ring to get cooling on to the workpiece.

[Andre]

We have to make a new motor support because it is having a special flange