Well, I guess 4 years late is better than never. I need some help guys. I bought the HF X2 clone literally 4 years ago. Unfortunately, my youngest son became very ill shortly after the purchase and was in and out of the hospital. He was sick for months. I had unpacked the mill but that is as far as I got before I tucked it away on a shelf where it has sat for the last 4 years untouched.
He became my priority so everything else was on hold.
Anywho, I’m back at it. My major problem is that all the research I had done back then has completely left my head. I want to finish this project up pretty quickly this time so my oldest son can spend the summer tinkering. I was trying to do a full CNC conversion. I have the following items sitting on the shelf with it.
1. HF 44991 Milling Machine
2. Reinforced Column
3. Belt Drive
4. CNC Fusion 3-axis conversion kit with backlash couplings
5. Lots of tooling/endmills
I hate to even ask for help but my wife travels all the time and I work crazy hours now so my time it getting limited. I’d like to spend some of my free time with the kids and less of it researching everything again so I figured it doesn’t hurt to ask. What I was wondering is should I buy a 3-axis CNC kit? If so, what kit should I buy? I just can’t remember what I was getting next. I do remember I was leaning towards 382 oz NEMA23 motors and I was getting dual shaft. Past that, I don’t remember much. I have a PC to run it but was also interesting in trying to use a Raspberry Pi to control it if that can be done. I have my son’s 3D printer setup using Raspberry Pi and I really like having that to load the gcode without having to have a PC attached directly to the machine. It saves space in the workshop. Where the heck do I go from here? I don’t have to go the Raspberry Pi route. I just need to get something up and running ASAP.
Thanks for the help...