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Hi there, I'm building 1 cnc and restoring another. It's taking a massive amount of time, even though I put time in every evening, forever. Reckon Ive been at this over a year now, but I dont mind, its a fun project and the endgame seems worth it. Approached slowly, I can afford to get nice components, monthly, which I have been doing.
First daft question;
So the machine I'm restoring, below is the spindle, I took it back to bare metal and resprayed it, but the collet bit, don't know what its called, is rusty. Does anyone know of a way to stop bare metal rusting?
This thing will be rotating at thousands of RPM. Might sand it and put some, oil or grease or something on it.
I restored this control box also, its not asembled yet, it's a control box for the spindle. That unit is a VFD and controls the speed of the spindle.
I got this very long gantry off ebay a few days ago, its nearly 7 feet wide. Its for a 5x10 plasma water table I intend building next month, all going well.
You can see the coupler for the motor got bent in transit, other than that it looks good, and the leadscrew is replacable.
First daft question;
So the machine I'm restoring, below is the spindle, I took it back to bare metal and resprayed it, but the collet bit, don't know what its called, is rusty. Does anyone know of a way to stop bare metal rusting?
This thing will be rotating at thousands of RPM. Might sand it and put some, oil or grease or something on it.
I restored this control box also, its not asembled yet, it's a control box for the spindle. That unit is a VFD and controls the speed of the spindle.
I got this very long gantry off ebay a few days ago, its nearly 7 feet wide. Its for a 5x10 plasma water table I intend building next month, all going well.
You can see the coupler for the motor got bent in transit, other than that it looks good, and the leadscrew is replacable.