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I recently acquired a small Sherline vertical milling machine that was converted to CNC and sold to schools by Paxton / Patterson in the mid 1990's.
Although I did get the machine working with Mach3 software using a DB25 dongle, I found the original stepper motors lacking power and glitchy. So I stripped all the original electronics and installed new power supplies, motion controllers, stepper motors, and a parallel port break-out-board.
Today, I made an aluminum fixture plate and added a chip guard as can be seen in the photo. I also made a few Morse Taper endmill holders and some work clamps from steel.
Matt
Although I did get the machine working with Mach3 software using a DB25 dongle, I found the original stepper motors lacking power and glitchy. So I stripped all the original electronics and installed new power supplies, motion controllers, stepper motors, and a parallel port break-out-board.
Today, I made an aluminum fixture plate and added a chip guard as can be seen in the photo. I also made a few Morse Taper endmill holders and some work clamps from steel.
Matt