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I love happy endings.

Got to hit the sack, hope get somewhere soon

Paul

Nice one Rick, looking forward to continued success for you and following religiously.

.Me

Congratulations. G.

Rick, how big are the backplates. mouse hover reads 1214x880 @ 60%. BTW the design looks fantastic, G.

Loving this design Ric, nice one mate!

Just as a side note as i'm following your build log over there >>>, so read the posts about the pockets for the bearing units to fit in, i.e round cutters vs...

So anyway I thought I would share my experience as a first timer in an engineering shop. To cut a short story to a very short story basically my next-door neighbour her brother has an engineering...

Not normally a company annoys me to the point of making a negative post about them but Valuframe has done just that.

Valuframe - Aluminium Extrusions > Aluminium Profile > Aluminium Extrusion >...

All it needs is at one side of each set of bearings to have the side of the pocket line up with the edge of the bearing, so the bearing or rail Butt's upto it.
So IE: On the Z axis have say the...

:toot: Nothing wrong with being load and proud. With the input you are getting Ric will turn out a very nice build. Rome was built together and not by one man (plus a huge amount of slaves)

+1 to that Rick. To me that is the best thing about all the people here who take the time and trouble to contribute. I'm not interested in fluffy platitudes, I'm interested in getting it right.

if only everyone could read jazz's comments in the same way!

New transformer has been fitted but not yet tested, and I also found that C6 (.47J100) {470nF 100V Polyester Capacitor} has also failed, so that will need to be replaced.

I also don't trust the...

OK, but still, are the secondaries series or parallel connected?

Other useful info I just found... the Lenze 530 series manual has this interesting pic:

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So we know it is an EI30 series...

If you are on about the big black unit bolted to the end plate, that is a VHF 28-08io5
Half Controlled Single Phase Rectifier Bridge, and the small transformer go's nowhere near it.

The two...

You can have belts made to any length you want, that what I did with mine. I use a local bearing company so try your nearest decent bearing place.

Regards the belt design and heres one way using 2...

Beltingonline.com

I was looking for a lawnmower belt online and stumbled upon this company. Not only more belts you can shake a lawnmower at, but lots of other items that might be useful to CNC...

there is also a model with a cam to operate the atc fitted to the top of the spindle which will allow a direct drive motor, i'll see if i can find the link.

http://www.aliexpress.com/product-fm/540553447-EN027-Spindle-with-synchronous-belt-for-CNC-milling-BT30-ATC-steel-ball-clamp-disc-spring-drawbar-wholesalers.html

Use your own motor to suit,

About the only decent lathe program I have seen is Dolphin.

Many software writers treat lathe as a two axis mill when in fact it isn't, believe it or not lathe is far harder.
On a mill the...

Hi Rick
Only just seen this and dont know if your still looking but the plastic your after is also used for scratch plates on guitars etc. Search "3 ply scratch plate"

or look here...

Hey Rick,

looked back in my records and found ref: to Pantograph supplies, changed name now but you will find all kinds of sheet here tell you now will be expensive.
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This site has the manualon the VMC260...but its £40 :surprised:
http://www.lathes.co.uk/manuals/

Sorry, I was thinking Denford, had no experiance of Boxfords.

I did find this comment on the web:

"Here i have for sale an excellent condition Boxford 260 VMC cnc milling machine with R8 easychange toolholder, which is converted to Mach3" so there's a...