Re: My Drill/Mill has arrived!!

Hi Jeff,

Who/where did you order your Mill from? What model #? URL? How's it
looking? Sounds like quite a handful to move around, and set up.

Alan KM6VV


cadman@... wrote:

>
> Got my ENCO Drill/Mill yesterday afternoon. It looks real nice. No
> rust anywhere. (That was a worry of mine) I'm quite overwhelmed right
> now. The weight is more than I can handle. I got the head off the
> machine with the help of a friend. We setup the stand and was able to
> put the base unit on top of it last night. Now with the base on the
> stand it places the top of the column about head high. This will make
> placing the head on it real hard.
>
> I'm going to use it manually for a little while before I design my
> servo motors to fit it. Right now I'm very confused on how I will
> ever fit it with ball screws. It's the y-axis screw that will be
> hard. Not from a design stand point, but because it's under the base
> and the pure weight of things make it impossible to just flip it over
> anytime I want to work on it.
>
> To all you guys out there who has added ball screws to your drill
> mill….. How did you do it?
>
> Jeff aka CADMAN