Mark,
I've got a D&M5 in my garage now. I'm going off memory now, but I think it does something in the range of 5" over bed, and less than 3" over cross slide. Between centers looks to be about a foot, but I've had a few beers since I've looked at it, so I could be wrong. It's got cute little ballscrews on both axes, a ~1 HP PM DC motor, and was sold with an auto toolchanger and autochuck available, but I don't have either. I think they came with a Dickson type S00(Zero-Zero) QC toolpost, at least that's what mine has on it. Tailstock is MT1. Mine is the version without the built in CPU. I've wired from a breakout board into the existing stepper driver boards, and I've got them moving pretty much where they are supposed to at slow speed and no load with Mach3. I'd have it running now but for burning up the spindle motor control board somehow. Probably going to replace it with a KB board. The gibs are set-screw adjusted, and I've cut shims to make it a bit better. Cast iron bed, telescoping spring ballscrew covers, limit switch on -Z, optical speed pickup for the LCD tach, and also for threading operations. Mine came with a live center as well.
Before I started the conversion, I picked up an ISA controller card off of eBay, and LabVolt sent me the software that ran it, gratis. Old DOS based stuff, was able to make it work with manual coding and also with the supplied test program. A bit too clunky for my tastes, and I can't ever leave well enough alone.
Sorry for the rambling nature of my post, but I'm just writing down everything as it spills out. If you have any other questions, I'd be more than happy to help, but I probably won't be on here much until after New Years.
Have a good one,
Adam  |