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I am looking at fitting an electric motor to my carriage for auto feed fo the saddle and cross slide.
I am NOT going to use it for threading.
It is a Hercus (sb 9 clone). As I dont have the worm and wheel for this machine I am thinking if I fit the gear that runs from the worm wheel (normally driven by the leadscrew) and drives a plain spur gear to connect to the saddle/cross driven gears with a small, (probably mains) electric motor and some sort of speed controller, I will hopefully have a nice, compact, infinately variable, simple reversing auto feed.
The mains wiring is straight forward for me, (but happy to go low voltage if thats easierer/betterer).
The nuts and bolts I can do, (jerry building stuff is my middle name), I am just not all that clued up on variable speed drives or what I need to adapt existing motors to do what I want. It doesnt want to be too big as it will be mounted on the apron front where the clutch would normally be and this is limited radially by the carriage handwheel and feed levers. Obviously it can protrude towards the operator, but limiting this would be desireable also.
I am thinking that I will only be needing 0-20 'ish rpm on the motor output shaft
Cheers Phil
I am NOT going to use it for threading.
It is a Hercus (sb 9 clone). As I dont have the worm and wheel for this machine I am thinking if I fit the gear that runs from the worm wheel (normally driven by the leadscrew) and drives a plain spur gear to connect to the saddle/cross driven gears with a small, (probably mains) electric motor and some sort of speed controller, I will hopefully have a nice, compact, infinately variable, simple reversing auto feed.
The mains wiring is straight forward for me, (but happy to go low voltage if thats easierer/betterer).
The nuts and bolts I can do, (jerry building stuff is my middle name), I am just not all that clued up on variable speed drives or what I need to adapt existing motors to do what I want. It doesnt want to be too big as it will be mounted on the apron front where the clutch would normally be and this is limited radially by the carriage handwheel and feed levers. Obviously it can protrude towards the operator, but limiting this would be desireable also.
I am thinking that I will only be needing 0-20 'ish rpm on the motor output shaft
Cheers Phil