Bridgeport Manual to CNC conversion...

[Lee Roberts]

Looking lovely Dave, looks so much nicer cleaned up and painted, should turn out to be a nice conversion/restoration.

.Me

[Davek0974]

Got the head on, spindle in and new oil pipes plumbed in and tested.



Also stripped and painted the lower drive housings and scraped out the wax that used to be grease ;)

[lucan07]

Looking good Dave, are you fitting new ballscrews you ordered as you re assemble or are they fairly easy to access/fit without breaking down the whole thing again?

[Davek0974]

Yes, i'm at the stage now where I can't progress until I get the screws. Hopefully they will be here this week before we leave on Thursday for a couple of weeks holiday.

[Davek0974]

Ball-screws arrived today :)

Managed to start fitting the Y axis one but where the oil feed drilling is in the nut, the pipe hits the knee chip guards so it'll last about 5 minutes :(

I have emailed the suppliers as it looks wrong unless i have it fitted wrong of course but there is only one oil drilling.

[Lee Roberts]

Bravo!

.Me

[Davek0974]

Fitted some chip covers for the ways, nitrile rubber, tomorrow will be making the belt covers for X&Y drives.

Lowest and most forward position...


The front cover will just hang over the front like many of the real CNC Bridgeports do.

[Davek0974]

Got the X&Y axis chip covers fitted today...



Also found this on the welding bench....



Should help a bit :)

[Boyan Silyavski]

Also found this on the welding bench....



Should help a bit :)

Its good to have a plasma machine at workshop

[Davek0974]

Made some button tags today, i've also had the console powder-coated :)



Coming along nicely