Milling Machine Advice

[Washout]

Thanks Neil

Those are perfect and looking at the lead screw mounts/bearing blocks I think those will be fairly easy to adapt to ball screws/steppers - clearance underneath looks a little tight, but I guess a custom coupling can be made also.

I'm guessing that a 1605 size would fit in there?

I'm 90% sure I'll be buying the same machine or the dovetail Z axis variant.

[Clive S]

I converted this mill about 9 months ago using the existing screws. with 3.1nm motors and now
I am just changing the lead screws to ball screws if this helps on my Warco WM-18 mill I will be use 1605 screws.

I machined a slot out under the X table with my router very slowly 1mm DOC 200mm/min with a 6mm carbide 4 flute at 5500 rpm.

The yellow endplate on the X table will have the boss taken off and the hole opened out to 42mm, then a boss will be made to insert into the 42mm hole.

The boss will then have a 32mm hole cut out for the AC bearings offset by 3 mm to bring the screw up into the machined slot under the X table by that amount.
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The Y screw will fit using the original boss just opened out to 32mm for the AC bearing.
Then of course there is the Z to think about. ..Clive

[JAZZCNC]

I machined a slot out under the X table with my router very slowly 1mm DOC 200mm/min with a 6mm carbide 4 flute at 5500 rpm.

BUT BUT BUT CLIVE dont you know Routers can't Machine Cast Iron they must only EVER be used for cutting compressed paper according to ROBINS law.

[Clive S]

BUT BUT BUT CLIVE dont you know Routers can't Machine Cast Iron they must only EVER be used for cutting compressed paper according to ROBINS law.

Very sorry about that, I will never ever do it again ..Clive

[JAZZCNC]

Very sorry about that, I will never ever do it again ..Clive

You bloody well better do it again mate otherwise don't bother ringing me anymore.! .

[Clive S]

You bloody well better do it again mate otherwise don't bother ringing me anymore.! .

Eh Eh OK boss. I might try titanium and see how that goes.

[Washout]

Eh Eh OK boss. I might try titanium and see how that goes.

How hard can it be? ;-)

[JAZZCNC]

Eh Eh OK boss. I might try titanium and see how that goes.

Ok and I'll get the tissues ready and my book of sympathy words. .