projects from the lathe and milling machine
We have an ambulance built on a 1994 Ford E-350 cutaway chassis. It is a 7.3 IDI diesel. After swapping out the battery I discuss my future plans for the vehicle. Some of the ideas are creating an ambulance camper conversion, use it as a party bus, build an ambulance based tiny house, or a […]
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Trying to push some production out the door this week and noticed an issue on our little X2 CNC machine. Replacing the spiral aluminum stepper motor – lead screw coupler with a jaw type coupler. This CNC is dedicated to machining aluminum electronic enclosures. As such I have made some modifications to it over the
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Counterweight Fabrication This week I focused on replacing the missing Z axis counterweight. Again, having no history for the machine I have no idea why it was removed- but it certainly needs it. A few visits to CNC forums found some pictures of what the original was supposed to look like. Armed with that information
Dyna Myte DM2800 Restoration Part #002 Read More »
I’ve owned this milling machine for over 6 years. It was purchased at an auction and it has been an on and off project since then. In this first installment I cover the progress up to this point and discuss a bit of the future direction of the project. The machine has been completely taken
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