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Hi All,
Been awhile, been busy with Life, and a chronic shortage of money has kept me from doing anything much with this machine.
Good news is that my finances are loosening up a bit, and I should be able to get it running in the next month or so. Yeah, it's sat where it sits since I got it in place in March. I've decided to go with an RPC for the machine. VFD's would be nice, but I wouldn't use most of the features on them. The spindle speed is infinitely adjustable with a hand crank, has Hi-Lo, and is reversible with the switch on the mill. The X axis power feed has 9 speeds, which should be enough. I think the only thing it lacks is a rapid, but that's no big deal.
I know the mill has a 2hp spindle, but the plate for the X axis power feed motor is missing. Can another owner let me know what the specs on it are? 1hp? Fractional hp? Since the mill was running when I picked it up, I have no worries about that, and I have diagrams of the wiring, I'm not concerned about hooking it up wrong (6 wires to connect), but I do worry about getting too small of an RPC. Don't want to waste money on too large of one, either. I'm looking at either a 3hp or 5hp RPC, leaning towards the 5 in case I get more 3 phase equipment.
Thanks!
Been awhile, been busy with Life, and a chronic shortage of money has kept me from doing anything much with this machine.
Good news is that my finances are loosening up a bit, and I should be able to get it running in the next month or so. Yeah, it's sat where it sits since I got it in place in March. I've decided to go with an RPC for the machine. VFD's would be nice, but I wouldn't use most of the features on them. The spindle speed is infinitely adjustable with a hand crank, has Hi-Lo, and is reversible with the switch on the mill. The X axis power feed has 9 speeds, which should be enough. I think the only thing it lacks is a rapid, but that's no big deal.
I know the mill has a 2hp spindle, but the plate for the X axis power feed motor is missing. Can another owner let me know what the specs on it are? 1hp? Fractional hp? Since the mill was running when I picked it up, I have no worries about that, and I have diagrams of the wiring, I'm not concerned about hooking it up wrong (6 wires to connect), but I do worry about getting too small of an RPC. Don't want to waste money on too large of one, either. I'm looking at either a 3hp or 5hp RPC, leaning towards the 5 in case I get more 3 phase equipment.
Thanks!