RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Thinking of retrofitting

Here's a nifty little windows program that does tons of conversions.

http://www.joshmadison.com/software/convert/

It's great and it's Freeware.

Matt



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Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Thinking of retrofitting


What is 1076 oz-in in ft-lbs or Nm ? What is the conversion?

Regards
Jess

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> Hi!
> I'm in about the same place you are...
> I'm getting the impression that the more electronics you know, the
> cheaper
you can do it.
> If you're an electrical idiot like me, you end up paying more for
> other
people to assemble
> things for you :-)
> It's looking to me like my Mill/Drill conversion is going to cost me
> under
$1000. How
> much under? I don't know yet. (depends on how much help I can get
> from a
friend of mine
> who is an electrical engineer ;-).
> If you want to start out real good with one component that's usually
expensive; go to Dan
> Mauch's site (Camtronics) at http://www.seanet.com/~dmauch/ and buy
> three
of the
> heavy duty stepper motors he's got!
> They're a fantastic deal!
> AND he carries all the other parts for the conroller end of things
> too. Hope this helps!... one newbie to another.
>
> Paul F.
>
>
> --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "skunkphallus"
> <skunkphallus@y...>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I recently purchase an older mill/drill and am thinking of making a
> > CNC machine out of it. This will be the first time that I tried
> > anything like this, but I am pretty sure I can do it. I am just
> > wondering if anyone can give me a ballpark of what it will cost for
> > all the components? Or if anyone has finished this project, what
> > components did you use and about how much did you spend?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
>
>
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