If your on a budget, try Lowes home improvement. They carry a 4x8 foot by 1/8th thick sheet of fairly rigid fiberglass. Line your enclosure with this and calk with silicone. For the bolt holes to hold the mill in place, I used some long 3/8 bolts pushed up from underneath. I used a nut, steel washer, and rubber fender washer and cranked them down tight to the fiberglass sheet. It hasn't leaked a drop. But you could of course then seal that with silicone just for added protection. I lowered the mill base down over the studs and secured. Drill a good sized hole at the low corner of the enclosure base, silicone a drain pipe to the hole and feed to your coolant tank.
Turns out my enclosure was not large enough once I added the cnc gear, so I'll be building a larger one in the near future, but for now a couple shields and half a shower curtain liner keep it all contained. |