Originally Posted by cjjonesarmory  No I don't mind. Didn't really get any interest in it anyway. PM me with your email address and I'll send you all the files I have for it. Mostly in Alibre format, but I think I still have the GCode too. This was one of the first projects I cut with the mill and I think in the GCode I got a little too ambitious with the cut depth in steel, but it's something to work with if you are interested. |
ooh, thats cool, thanks!
my plan for this is to have it take the colombo in both vertical and horizontal, and then put index pins on the swivel at common spots i use - like 2 degrees for milling neck angles etc.
then i also have an R8 spindle shaft here that i was going to make a bearing block for and try and set up with a power drawbar for TTS, along with a servo drive to get a nice 3500/7000rpm spindle that can do rigid tapping and such.
i think the reason there wasnt much interest, aside from there only being a handful of nm200/smithy/syil x6 owners, is because it not ideal to switch back and forth with the big head. with the small r8 block i think it might become alot easier.
i got the spindle shaft for like $50 from weiss. its the same one thats in the grizzly g0704. decent AC bearings to fit it run under $100 at vxb.com. the servo is at machmotion with drive for about $650 (1hp continuous, 2hp intermittent).