old sherline Y travel wasRe: SuperCam & PCB Trace Milling Software

Alan wrote: Now to figure out how to get any "Y" travel with the

>tilting angle table mounded. I have an old Craftsman Sears/Sherline
>mill, and the "Y" travel is shorter. Houston, we have a problem!

Alan,

Your mill is equivalent to the CURRENT model 5000 with 3 inches of Y
travel.

You can get more USE of the three inches you have, by adding the 1.25
mill head "spacer block" sherline sells.

A second way to increase the USE of the travel you have is to make a
spacer which raises the entire mill column a couple inches. (you
could probably get this from sherline also: as the extra block
used/cut off when using the horizontal mill conversion plate.) This
works because sometimes the work "runs into" the upright dovetail
"bed" of the Z axis when you still have Y axis travel.

Hope this helps.

Ballendo

P.S. What did you pay for the CY545's and IRF540's? What are others
paying?