New 12z Owner Here

Any plans to mod your new mill with a DRO or anything? Or are you going to enjoy it as is for a while?
 
Dro as soon as i can afford it. Then id like a 3phase motor and belt drive.

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Looking real good. Yea, a parts washer is on my 'required' list of things to get next year. Just received my little bench top blasting cabinet last week. Slowly getting there...
Keep that cabinet on the opposite side of the garage. Typically with mine anything within 6 feet of it gets sandy.

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Keep that cabinet on the opposite side of the garage. Typically with mine anything within 6 feet of it gets sandy.
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Which DRO are you looking at, if you don't mind my asking?

Duly noted regarding the cabinet, thanks. I will be using glass beads in mine, more for putting a finish/texture on small parts than anything, but I suspect those will blow around and get into everything as well. A good mask will be a must. It is a cheap cabinet, from Grizzly. I will attempt to seal it a bit better if I can. Any suggestions?

You will definitely be wanting the X-axis power feed once you start cranking that table back and forth any appreciable distance. For an Old Guy like me it was a necessity. As I've said before, the 3hp/VFD upgrade, coupled with the belt drive upgrade REALLY changes this mill. Day and night IMO. Once you dump the significant parasitic losses of a bunch of gears swimming in a oil bath you can really spool that spindle up to some decent RPMs. Spooky quiet too. When the time comes, make sure that Paul sends you the upgraded spindle bearings with the motor/VFD upgrade as that by itself will give you the speeds on the right side of your spindle rpm chart. When you do the belt drive conversion, you get to replace the front plate on the head and throw that spindle rpm chart away. :D
 
Which DRO are you looking at, if you don't mind my asking?

Duly noted regarding the cabinet, thanks. I will be using glass beads in mine, more for putting a finish/texture on small parts than anything, but I suspect those will blow around and get into everything as well. A good mask will be a must. It is a cheap cabinet, from Grizzly. I will attempt to seal it a bit better if I can. Any suggestions?

You will definitely be wanting the X-axis power feed once you start cranking that table back and forth any appreciable distance. For an Old Guy like me it was a necessity. As I've said before, the 3hp/VFD upgrade, coupled with the belt drive upgrade REALLY changes this mill. Day and night IMO. Once you dump the significant parasitic losses of a bunch of gears swimming in a oil bath you can really spool that spindle up to some decent RPMs. Spooky quiet too. When the time comes, make sure that Paul sends you the upgraded spindle bearings with the motor/VFD upgrade as that by itself will give you the speeds on the right side of your spindle rpm chart. When you do the belt drive conversion, you get to replace the front plate on the head and throw that spindle rpm chart away. :D
Id like to get a fagor f40I with the fancy display screen. But 2500 dollar dro on a 2500dollar machine is overkill.

I use ultra fine glass in mine as well.

And yeah that belt drive is a badass. I think Paul mentioned they replaced the bearings already but ill have to double check on that.


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If you want a cool touch-screen display, you might want to take a gander at the DroPros EL700. Magnetic scales that you can trim to any length, and you can buy the kit for either the column/head or the quill.

And about $800 bucks cheaper than the Fagor.

As you saw on my DRO, I went on the column/head for my Z-axis but later added a scale on the quill for milling pockets. If I had it to do over I probably would have just ponied up for the 4-axis EL700 and called it done. Even that is 500 bucks cheaper than the Fagor.

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If you want a cool touch-screen display, you might want to take a gander at the DroPros EL700. Magnetic scales that you can trim to any length, and you can buy the kit for either the column/head or the quill.

And about $800 bucks cheaper than the Fagor.

As you saw on my DRO, I went on the column/head for my Z-axis but later added a scale on the quill for milling pockets. If I had it to do over I probably would have just ponied up for the 4-axis EL700 and called it done. Even that is 500 bucks cheaper than the Fagor.

Hindsight is always 20/20...
Ill have to look into them. Id like something that will be accurate in the tenths. Those fagor .01 micron scales are mighty fancy. But like I said overkill for most all machines.

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I have .0001 resolution on my lathe cross slide, everything else on all of my other machines is .0002
 
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