Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: wrong conversion factor but had servo question.

Hi all:
I was quoted "thirty grand" for the Haas Minimill when I inquired at my
local machinery dealership last month.
I ASSUMED it was $30,000.00 Canadian!!.
I have probably misled everybody.
My apologies to all.

Marcus

By the way, I certainly didn' t intend to offend anyone with my comments
regarding the quality of a CNC kneemill conversion.
I was really serious at one time too, about going that route.
Then I got a chance to drive a high end Okuma for a couple of months.
Boy did I ever get spoiled!
I now own a cute little Defiance VMC that I picked up from a company that
went "buns up" a month after they bought it.
I look at the construction of that little mill, and I think to myself: This
would be really easy to build!
It is basically an "L" shaped synthetic granite block with a couple of sets
of linear guideways bolted on, a simple head that rides up and down, and a
couple of surface ground hot rolled mild steel plates for the saddle and
table. It is driven by servomotors and ballscrews.
It is a HELLUVA little machine!!
It is rigid, it is dead nuts accurate, and it runs like a bunny all day,
every day,for me. (I do a lot of prototyping in plastics)
It weighs only 500 lb and it plugs into the 110 wall socket.
Travels are 12" in "X", 8" in "Y" , and 9" in "Z". The table is 21" x 7"
Seems to me that this would make a marvellous machine for a hobbyist.
Problem is, the all dressed version is about sixty grand ( this number I got
from a buddy who is getting one for cutting graphite electrodes-don't quote
me on it).
But to make one... probably not all that hard!
If I had the electronics skills I might well have done it.
From the level of expertise that I have seen in some of the posts, the guts
should be no sweat at all for many of you.
Knocking together the mechanical bits is easy by comparison.

MC
-----Original Message-----
From: ptengin@... <ptengin@...>
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: wrong conversion factor but had servo
question.

>In a message dated 11/28/00 6:27:16 PM Hawaiian Standard Time,
>dengvall@... writes:
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><< then that would be a
> considerable discount.
>
> Dave >>
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>OK, I'm with the program. Just how much of a discount? You gotta forgive me
>for living many thousands of miles away from Canada. ;>)
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>Peter
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