King Midas mill conversion

[diy-john]

Things have been moving slowly, due to work etc. commitments.

I have now officially begun an intermediate -build of the CNC -conversion.
- Focus is making now parts more rigid, and more like the final, beautiful build.
-- One is using less thick (cheaper) materials here, than in what will be the final build.

Today I have been using the mill as a manual machine, with LinuxCNC, using DRO's and Power feeds.
- Trying to get used to G-code, use simple commands like G0 somewhere, G1 elsewhere... while cutting aluminium.
- Measuring with a digital vernier, cutting a tenth here and there.

Perhaps one had thought I am going to make a fancy drawing and export it into G-code. Send chips flying and ta-da, bolt everything in place, and have a ready CNC conversion.

But it has not been like in dreams. Need to take one step at a time. It was fun cutting aluminium today. :)