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

Want a bigger machine for a lot less money? XYZ = 26", x 9" x 14"

You'll have to build it from bolt together components tho'

Smoke
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From: Marcus & Eva <implmex@...>
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 10:41 PM
Subject: 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:
>>
>><< then that would be a
>> considerable discount.
>>
>> Dave >>
>>
>>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. ;>)
>>
>>Peter
>>THRD, Inc.
>>Honolulu Hawaii
>>
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