Re: My Drill/Mill has arrived!!

Hi Jeff,

Since I ordered my Mill/Drill without the stand from Enco, I built my
own with structural tubing for legs and a 12GA top/drip tray. I just
cut out a rectangle under the machine base, staying inside the mount
pattern. If I want to use flood coolant, I can just seal around the
base to the tray. There is no way to install a nut mount for the Y
axis without having access to the bottom of the base. I also
converted to CNC 3 axis, with the 4th on the way, and things are
running very well. By the way, for the Z axis, a NEMA34 frame will
fit nicely up inside the casting behind the quill to power a
leadscrew connected to the quill collar.

Enjoy,
Allan

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., Alan Marconett KM6VV <KM6VV@a...> wrote:
> 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@p... 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