Beavermill conversion to CNC

**John S** · 11-09-2010

No I am still looking.
It was a tiny picture as it came off Craigs list when the machine was up for sale after the owners death.
It looked like a casting as the lower bolts were short ones and sunk into cast pockets at the side.
The head was part of a J head in that it used the spindle and quill and had the varispeed motor arrangement at the rear.

Still looking.

**Andre** · 11-09-2010

John with the riser you mean the Z axis i supposed ?
Because I did a complete redesign of it on my machine and if you want some more pictures I can provide.

**John S** · 11-09-2010

It was a conventional manual bridgy with nod and tilt head but it had a horizontal spindle thru the riser, front to back.

**Andre** · 11-09-2010

After the bolts were finished we put on the turret.

**Andre** · 11-09-2010

The next thing I wanted to do was rebuilding the spindle.
But first we had it disassembled.

**Andre** · 11-09-2010

And some more of the same.

**Andre** · 11-09-2010

And more pictures

**Andre** · 11-09-2010

This was part of the dismantling .
Now we going to modify it some and put it back together.

**Andre** · 11-09-2010

First measure the part and make some notes and later I made some extra holes in it to be used in a later stage for mounting a ring to get cooling on to the workpiece.