King Midas mill conversion

[diy-john]

Hello!

Well, it has been some 6 months since this project has been on hold.

Not much has happened since. Got screws machined - thanks to Jonathan. Then got tied up with work, had to put all hobbies aside, and let's leave it at that. Really quite embarrassed and sorry for being away for this long.

1) Plan now is to pick up the pieces, try to remember which planet we are on, and get the mill running. Not pretty. Not good, but get it running.
1.1) For that need some bearing mounts made. A local machining workshop will make some simple mounts, hope to get them in a couple of weeks
1.2) Need attach the ballscrews
1.3) Need attach the ballnuts

For 1.2) attaching the ballscrew on Z-axis, I have today started removing the Z-axis existing pinion / spring.
- For reference, discussed this Z-axis matter earlier here: http://www.mycncuk.com/forums/diy-ma...onversion.html

What I have done today is:
A) Started removing these levers


B) So far quite easy, just use a HEX -key to open screws


C) After about 5-minutes, got already most things away from right-hand-side of the mill



D) Spring mechanism was on the left-hand-side


E) Now the spring-mechanism was easy to remove, but this is as far as we got today


F) On the other (right) hand side it looks now like this:



Now, would appreciate some tips:
- please should one remove the rest of the gears?
-- Reason I would like to remove the gears,is that I am hoping to use the hole(s) for attaching a rigid structure, on either side of the quill, to mount Z-axis bearings + motor
-- Or do you think one would be happier having the hand-lever to lower the quill?
- If gear should be removed, how does it come out? Attached is a technical drawing of the mill components, if someone would take a care to give an opinion (on how to remove the stuck gear/shaft)?



Thanks for reading