Re: how to build a mini mill???

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Nicholas J Waitkunas
<WaitkunasNJ@j...> wrote:

> Hello Group: I hope I'm doing this right: after sitting in the

wings for

> a couple of weeks, there is finally something at my level to which

I can

> respond. All you Einstein types can tune out while "Simonho" & I

make a

> quick exchange.
>
> Simonho: I've a reprint from Nuts & Volts dated Jan '99 which

means the

> original was published before that. It's titled CCNC a series of

CNC

> shop equipment built on the cheap. I can say that mechanically

they work

> fine. Unfortunately the electronics are beyond my abilities. The

author

> of the series was a Dan Mauch. I hope he is still contributing to

the

> public and that I can eventually ask him a couple questions. The
> articles are specific enough to build either the drill press, the

mill,

> or the saw, the wire cutter required a little imagination. I've

been able

> to build working, manual versions as proof of concepts. A-OK!
>

Funny, I read that article too, back when I was thinking if I could
learn enough about CNC to make one. used the computer at the local
library to get on-line.

Dan is not only still around, but a member of this list !

Dave