I bought a Taig CNC mill about 2005, when I wanted to make cues It sat in a closet all that time Fast forward almost 15 years, and I have a new day job, that has a use for it. I brought it into the office, and got it making some parts. I'm at a startup, and I set up the whole shop.
I'm an intermediate I'd say at CNC, and thought it would be fun to share my 15 year journey in the making
Pictures below.
Wheeling it into the office after 15 years in the house collecting dust.
CNC setup. I had everything 15 years ago (computer, software, axis driver, steppers, etc), but never did anything with it except one test engraving of my name all those years back. Its running Mach 2, Xylotex cheapo 4 axis driver, I think 24v power supply, stepper motors. I upgraded it just now to the ER16 spindle. It had the old style Taig spindle before, that only accepted up to 1/4" shank tooling. Now I can go to 3/8".
Space was super tight, and I wanted to get a minimum of basic tools in this room. Cheapo drill press from Amazon.
Makita metal cutting saw with aluminum specific blade. I'll be cutting a lot of 8020 T-Slot. It works amazingly well.
High quality knock-off vise, 2 ton arbor press, 1" kalamazoo belt sander, delta disc sander.
Continued next post.
I'm an intermediate I'd say at CNC, and thought it would be fun to share my 15 year journey in the making
Pictures below.
Wheeling it into the office after 15 years in the house collecting dust.
CNC setup. I had everything 15 years ago (computer, software, axis driver, steppers, etc), but never did anything with it except one test engraving of my name all those years back. Its running Mach 2, Xylotex cheapo 4 axis driver, I think 24v power supply, stepper motors. I upgraded it just now to the ER16 spindle. It had the old style Taig spindle before, that only accepted up to 1/4" shank tooling. Now I can go to 3/8".
Space was super tight, and I wanted to get a minimum of basic tools in this room. Cheapo drill press from Amazon.
Makita metal cutting saw with aluminum specific blade. I'll be cutting a lot of 8020 T-Slot. It works amazingly well.
High quality knock-off vise, 2 ton arbor press, 1" kalamazoo belt sander, delta disc sander.
Continued next post.
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