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Posted 11 years, 6 months ago 7 comments

Here's some pictures that have been maturing for a couple of years, I think it's about time they were posted. These machines were built to order for some very patient customers. Travels ~330 x 230 x 230 mm XYZ, brushless servos and ground ball screws all round, on THK caged ball linear bearings, running Granite Devices VSD drives.

Pardon the mess...

Electronics enclosure - front

Electronics enclosure - back

Improved Z axis chip protection

New back panel

New, larger electronics enclosure

Michael's mill - back.

Front.

With way covers - front

Back

Comments

Jan

11 years, 6 months ago

good to see you back :)

Jack

11 years, 6 months ago

Jason

Beautiful milling machines. I like the new enclosure for the Granite drives.

Please post more pictures if possible.

Jack

Wheldon

11 years, 6 months ago

Fantastic work as usual Jason. Drive enclosure looks great. Do you get any heating issues? Also have you looked into their new Argon drives?

Jason

11 years, 6 months ago

Thanks Jan, Jack and Wheldon :) I appreciate the kind words, I'll try for some more pictures before too long!

I haven't had any heating issues at all. There's a small (40mm) 12v fan in there and that seems to be more than sufficient to keep the heat under control.

I'm looking forward to the new Argon drive! Any day now, surely :) The VSD-E will likely continue to be our first choice for multi-axis drive situations where the cost of the power supply is less significant on a per drive basis, but I expect to use the Argon for spindle/headstock applications where we really need higher voltages to keep currents sensible at the higher rotational speeds. In those applications it'll let us control speed and position more closely than a VFD and should open up the opportunity to do things such as rigid tapping which would really be something special on a desktop machine.

Regards,

Jason

Zeno

11 years, 6 months ago

Same! Good to see you back! Are you the owner of the http://pocketmachines.co.nz/? I have been trying to get to that site for months and was always down!
Your work is really great. Good luck!

Regards
Zeno

Anonymous

11 years, 6 months ago

Hi Zeno - yes, that's my site. Really sorry about the protracted downtime, but I think we have it sorted now so feel free to go order tons of products :)

Thanks for the kind words too :)

Best regards,

Jason

Chris Trenholm

11 years, 6 months ago

Hey Jason,

I am very interested in your machines. Could you please send me an email at cntrenholm@gmail.com. I have a few questions for you.

Thanks,
Chris

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