Pm-727m With Dro

[Greebles]

Nice! I too recently purchased a PM-727M, upgrading from an LMS 3990 (X2 variant). I just finished installing the DRO scales yesterday. So far I am impressed with this machine.

-Denzil

 

[Sourdoh]

The mill seems very beefy for its size. I know the dro is a valuable addition to any milling machine - my buddy has one on his Bridgeport and it makes backlash a non factor.

Oh and this is what I'm up to today - building a mobile stand.

And adding these

- yuri


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[wrmiller]

Nice!

 

[Sourdoh]

Haven't had much time with setting up the mill but I did finish the stand.

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[Sourdoh]

The first stand I had in mind was too bulky so I decided to simplify it to a 4x4 framed box skinned in 3/4 inch birch plywood. I am not planning on using any liquid cooling and the material was what I had in my shop.

Has anyone used cold air guns for chip removal and cooling? I was thinking of pairing a small one up with an ultra quiet compressor - using it intermittently for milling.


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[wrmiller]

From what little I know about them, cold air guns are cfm hogs. A small quiet air compressor is unlikely to be able to feed something like that. I have a FogBuster that sprays droplets and uses very little air. My little California Air Tools compressor (for dentists office and such) runs it just fine.

These non-misters (there are plans for one here on the site somewhere) produce very little excess and don't ruin the air with a cloud of coolant. Just offering an alternative suggestion.

 

[Sourdoh]

That sounds interesting. I'll dig around this site.


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[ddickey]

I noticed this mill comes with a stand. Is there a reason you didn't get one?

 

[Sourdoh]

I wanted a mobile base with a wider footprint and since I'm a carpenter I had most of the material laying around already. I figure that this can be repurposed later in life if I decide to permanently set the mill in a corner of my shop. I plan on adding a couple drawers to hold mill specific tooling.


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[jer]

Best wooden stand I've seen in quite a while.

(Don't you think you should add glued and screwed corner bracing seeing how you JUST used 4x4 materials? LOL (JK)

Better than lots of metal bases I've seen.