Cncst4060

[petesos]

Evening All
Well i have completed the first part of this upgrade on this chinky machine 6040 and as you can tell had a few problems on the way to get to this point but all sorted now due to the help given on this site , Thank you Doddy for sticking with my problem .

Now on with my upgrade and for anyone buying one of these chinky machines and paying a fraction of the price of a good well built machine should understand in my opinion that the build quality and materials they use to make them is not of the best quality in some cases ( don't shoot me its just my opinion as i have had 3 of them now and the first one was a good few years ago and the quality has not got any better in this new recent one }

But on saying that they are great for getting you started but i do think they need bumping up a bit in certain areas, This 6040 is not a bad machine for the money but i found that the X axis was a bit weak and holding the spindle you can move it slightly back and forth not due to wear but due to flexing of the materials , so my upgrade was to sort out the flexing as i will want to carve sand stone in the very near future with this machine so i purchased from Amazon a MGN12H Linear rail to give the X axis a bit of strength and to stop the flexing, and as you can see from the photos it fits in snugly on the back of the axis and am very happy to say it works just as i hoped it would work ,.

This little upgrade has cost me 35 quid and a bit of my time and i am sure a little something else will eventually go wrong or break or wear out but that is the nature of the beast but the point i want to make is it is only up to yourself how far you want to go with these machines they are never going to earn you a fortune and never break down but with a bit of cash and a bit of time you can make a half decent machine that does work well .
Pete