King Midas mill conversion

[diy-john]

Latest is:
1) At garage, have a crude build ready to plug motors in
2) At home, have a pc with with LinuxCNC + motors running on table ( this has in fact been ready already for months)

Next steps are
- put 1) and 2) together... by Christmas time will take pc, monitor, motors, drivers, to garage and plug them in.
-- before that, need to study calibrating LinuxCNC X, Y, Z -axis

Lessons learned recently:
- making crude build takes more time than expected. Probably spent 4 days x 8 hrs = 32 hrs to make it, over a few week period.
-- need to buy small sundries here and there
-- compressed air die grinder similar to this is helpful. I find it safe to use (no sparks + quite difficult to cut yourself accidentally), and cuts material quite quickly, but not too fast. Makes a nice sound, too. Of course not a CNC -machinist / milling machine operator approach, but hey, one haven't got a mill running now.

- have already noticed a few design errors by making a crude build, so it has been worth it.

- Longer term plan:
-- Once machine is running, make revised intermediate parts. Use possibly less thick Aluminium than one would have in final build. Cheaper. One expects there will be errors as I am a newbie in all this.
--- want these parts to be relatively rigid, so that it is possible to make good quality "final parts" later.
- Hope to submit more photos next weekend + a compulsory video