DIY Nema23 Motor Mounts

**melee** · 23-08-2009

Hi,

I have just about finished retro fitting a mill.

I found the easiest way to make a mount was to use 100mm box section.
It had 4mm walls so was very rigid and thick enough to tap M5 threads directly into it. Just needed facing on 2 sides.

The below is from the Y axis, the nuts and bolts are not the finished ones, just to test alignment.

regards

Melee

**irving2008** · 23-08-2009

Originally Posted by melee

Hi,

I have just about finished retro fitting a mill.

I found the easiest way to make a mount was to use 100mm box section.
It had 4mm walls so was very rigid and thick enough to tap M5 threads directly into it. Just needed facing on 2 sides.

The below is from the Y axis, the nuts and bolts are not the finished ones, just to test alignment.

regards

Melee

Now that is a neat bit of lateral thinking, wish I'd thought of it!

Since I am machining up the ballrace mount and not using a ready made one it woudn't reduce the amount of work for me significantly but for someone with limited tooling thats an easy way to go.