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Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] how to get started

Posted by Vince Negrete
on 2015-02-28 10:57:46 UTC
Fantastic Post and Links to your pictures.  Thanks!  Giving me ideas to get mine finally converted with my Servo's.
Please leave the page up for a while or if your going to take it down please let us know so I can grab everything for my upgrade.
I have an older Rockford that is BEGGING to be upgraded.   But its going to take me a Week or so to Finally Clean my shop!  ha!

Thanks again!
   Vince


On 2/24/2015 9:54 AM, 'CS Mo' cs@... [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] wrote:
 

I have some pictures of my conversion of a 10x50 Bridgeport Clone here:

<http://www.smidgie.com/928/machineshop/comet/cnc1/> (X-axis)
<http://www.smidgie.com/928/machineshop/comet/cnc2/> (Quill)
<http://www.smidgie.com/928/machineshop/comet/cnc3/> (Y-axis

It just covers the mechanical conversion, not the electronics aspect. I thought I had a page on the controls but I can't find it.

If I was going to do it again, I'd convert the knee instead of the quill as I find the quill much more useful for the occasional manual use, although I guess manual use of the knee is good for my forearms. :D

Rockford Ballscrew has dropin X/Y/Knee screws for bridgeports I believe. No idea how much they cost nowadays.

--CS

>I am in the process of buying and restoring a bridgeport mill and I
>would like to make it a cnc machine. It seems like a big task but others
>have done it so I can as well.
> Where is a good place to start? THANKS. Dave
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>I am in the process of buying and restoring a bridgeport mill and I
>would like to make it a cnc machine. It seems like a big task but others
>have done it so I can as well. 
>Where is a good place to start?  THANKS.    Dave
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>Posted by: davelegg@...
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2015-02-24 04:02:59 UTC how to get started Jon Elson 2015-02-24 08:56:17 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] how to get started CS Mo 2015-02-24 09:54:52 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] how to get started Vince Negrete 2015-02-28 10:57:46 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] how to get started