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  1. #1
    Hey everyone,

    I am a metalworker professionally and as my hobby. I always wanted to have a CNC milling machine.
    Hearing the prices of repairs on our CNC machines at work , I gave up my ambition to buy one.
    Then I met some people who build their CNC by themselves.Then the idea came to me to rebuild my old Beaver Mill .
    A decade ago I bought a Beaver Mill VBRP.
    After standing in a corner of my workshop all this time, I put him back in the spotlights. The idea is to convert him into a CNC Mill.
    Last Saturday I started cleaning him.
    I will let you know how the rebuilding goes along.

    Here are a few foto's from before the clean up;
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    Last edited by Andre; 29-11-2009 at 04:58 PM.

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  3. #2
    Welcome to the mad house,
    I think JohnS has a beaver mill or is in favour of them.

    peter

  4. That's a nice thing to have standing in the corner of the workshop (Actually, It'd be quite nice to have a workshop with a spare corner!)

    I suggest you look at ball-screws rather than using the existing lead-screws (for X and Y), with servo motors, rather than steppers, for a machine of that size.

    Are you thinking of motorising the knee or just the quill?

  5. #4
    Hello everyone,
    On Sunday I managed to partially disassemble the Beaver and to clean the table so it is presentable again.
    I already had a ball-screw for the Z axis from a CNC mill that was refurbished.
    And I am planning to change the X and Y axes with ball-screws as well.
    Does anybody know which are the best axial bearings with zero tolerance
    and preloaded so that I don't need belleville washers.
    I don't know what they use in real CNC mills as axial bearing.
    Kind regards ,
    Andre.
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  6. #5
    Good pics Andre! I think a lot of the blokes on here like Beavers especially John! I am sure he will chime in with some advice soon.
    Will

  7. #6
    On sunday I did some more work on it.
    I removed the elecktricity so we can put some new on later.
    Disassembled the turret and cleaned the coolant tank which was full off slurry . Dirty work it was.
    We also discoverd a tag with an award from the Queen.
    And as you can see the year is 1967 so I presume it is build in the same year.
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  8. #7
    On Wednesday I cleaned the body with prepaint and put some paint on it.
    yesterday we cleaned some parts off the turret.
    Today we did some milling on the ram so if at a later date I want to make a toolchange or something else than there is already a plane and holes to bolted it on.
    also on the rear I made some holes to connect a high speed motor.
    Later today we painted the turred and started some milling on the table console .
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    Hi Andre,

    That is some serious equipment! Thankyou for sharing this project with us - I will be reading along with interest...

  10. #9
    Hello Tom,
    Serious jobs demands serious equipment.
    It is not always easy when you only have small machines.
    Yet many of you are also making beautiful pieces with small machines .

  11. #10
    Last week I had a lot of work with scraping the verticale slider mounting surface. on the link below you can see real pro's at work.
    http://www.moriseiki.com/dixi/englis.../scraping.html
    I did some assembling from the turret.And I found a protection for the Z axis.
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