Hey mate, Melburnium here.....I love your build (machine that is).......I've just commissioned a small jig borer to make it a mill and can safely say that once you have a mill in any shape, form or whatever you will never do things the same old way again.........having said that you must definitely add a DRO.....without a DRO you are still in the stone age.....LOL, oh yeah, and a VFD too as you can vary the speed at will......using the belt drive too to give you more torque when needed as the VDF suffers from lack of low down torque when running the motor slow. Watching the video further on and I see your UNIQUE power feed clutch engaging mechanism.........that has to be the most ingenious method I've ever seen.....so simple.
Hi Ian Thanks for the reply, I'm really please you enjoyed my video! You are correct it's a home made mill without a DRO - I originally built the mill to simply cut a few small keyways and using it for facing some parts to be flat. A DRO would greatly improve its accuracy and control to the machine, this might bee a mod I preform in future. As for the home made power feed clutch - its design is simple, effective and works well - I hope you can incorporate this into your design. Like / Share / Subscribe Thanks
X = x {cross] ways ie side to side Y= You ..towards You and away from You Z= Zoom skywards ie up and down like a rocket Hope that helps thats how I remembered in the early days👍 Nice work by the way
Have you thought about filling the tubes with concrete to increase the mass? Something like lead shot would probably be ideal to really bulk that guy up (and wouldn't make the tubes impossible to rework in the future if you ever wanted to modify the design). It would be expensive, sure, but maybe worth it? It would probably help with the issue of the thing wanting to turn itself loose and increase the stability. Building/ sourcing a dedicated stand for it would probably help, too. The bench it's sitting on right now doesn't look flimsy by any means, but maybe not providing the kind of stability the unit is needing. You could then, of course, add even more weight to the tubing of any stand you had and could even bolt it to the floor. In fact, if you could bolt the thing to the floor really well, then you may even be able get away with not weighting anything (or weighting less) and instead using some extra support brackets to transfer some of the force down into the concrete. I always figured that a mill would be totally out of reach for me unless I butchered a drill press or started selling family members. This actually looks quite a bit better than some of those hack-y drill press conversions I've seen around. I'll have to keep my eyes open for some orphaned hefty electric motors (and I threw away a pallet full of them about 3 months ago at work :/)
I know people upgrade their Seig Mills spindle motors with treadmill motors but never saw someone throw that motor in their Z axis. It’s overkill for that axis. I would say throw it on your spindle but you have an ever more overkill motor on that as well lol. That motors size looks like the motors I see on monster mills that weigh a ton in machinists garages at home.
Hi Paul - thanks for the comment. The Spindle shaft was hand made on my lathe. Additional information about the build including a diagram of the M3 Taper shaft diagram and parts used can be found at www.homemadetools.net/forum/diy-milling-machine-74852 Hope that helps.
Hi Escapi - thanks for the comment. I do have a 3 jaw chuck but I decided to use the 4 jaw as it's more accurate and can be dialed in perfectly. The 3 jaw chuck has 0.03mm runout which wasn't suitable for this project.
Hi Fenix Thanks for the comment. There really isn't that much to it, I made some small grooves in the outer wall of the drive shaft for the bearing grub screws to seat into. This process seems to work well and is easily removable for maintenance. I diagram of the drive shaft can be found in the link below - hope that helps. www.homemadetools.net/forum/diy-milling-machine-74852
Thanks for the comment, for additional information about the build and parts used please visit the links below. Homemadetools forum www.homemadetools.net/forum/diy-milling-machine-74852 Hackaday forum hackaday.com/2019/09/01/scrapyard-milling-machine-gets-work-done-on-a-budget/#comment-6176735
Hello rct2 Apologies I missed your comment. The bearings have held up well considering the load they are under. I got them for cheap off eBay from China so I wasn't too worried if they gave out. But all in all performing well.
Great mill mate, would love a mill for my workshop. I do have an old lathe with a treadmill upgrade though. But this has given me a few great ideas for me and future video builds. What part of Australia are you in?
@@MaximumDIY Cool, I'm located in Dayboro a small town 25km north west of Brisbane QLD where I run my channel from. If it's ok I'll borrow a few ideas of yours that you used on your mill.
@@DoinStuff Thanks or the quick reply. I'm happy for you to use my ideas, please feel free to use this link in your videos. Channel: th-cam.com/users/maximumdiy DIY milling Machine Original video: th-cam.com/video/1-So7Ei8V2o/w-d-xo.html DIY Milling Machine Revised video: th-cam.com/video/Hh18qEMccYM/w-d-xo.html
The cone on spindle is MT2 ??if yes working good?? I'm ask because at the moment doing a milling machine and think about the spindle ... I wont to do a MT2 cone , what you think ??
Hi Sergio - thanks for the comment. The spindle boore / cone is an M3 Taper. I choose the M3 Taper as the tooling is used on entry level milling machines and if my home made milling machine didn't pan out. I had already purchased the correct tooling for an entry level machine and could still use it. The M3 Taper seems to work well and it's the same size as my milling machine tailstock. The M2 Taper is simmilar just smaller in diameter and would be limited in size to place the bolt all the way through for securing the milling attachment to the shaft. Hope that helps. A diagram of the MillingMachine Shaft + more info can be found here: www.homemadetools.net/forum/diy-milling-machine-74852
Hi Dex Thanks for the reply but I must decline, these project are done in my free time which is extreemly limited these days. Thanks for watching, all the best.
Hey mate, Melburnium here.....I love your build (machine that is).......I've just commissioned a small jig borer to make it a mill and can safely say that once you have a mill in any shape, form or whatever you will never do things the same old way again.........having said that you must definitely add a DRO.....without a DRO you are still in the stone age.....LOL, oh yeah, and a VFD too as you can vary the speed at will......using the belt drive too to give you more torque when needed as the VDF suffers from lack of low down torque when running the motor slow.
Watching the video further on and I see your UNIQUE power feed clutch engaging mechanism.........that has to be the most ingenious method I've ever seen.....so simple.
Hi Ian
Thanks for the reply, I'm really please you enjoyed my video!
You are correct it's a home made mill without a DRO - I originally built the mill to simply cut a few small keyways and using it for facing some parts to be flat. A DRO would greatly improve its accuracy and control to the machine, this might bee a mod I preform in future.
As for the home made power feed clutch - its design is simple, effective and works well - I hope you can incorporate this into your design.
Like / Share / Subscribe
Thanks
Brilliant my brother!!!
X = x {cross] ways ie side to side
Y= You ..towards You and away from You
Z= Zoom skywards ie up and down like a rocket
Hope that helps thats how I remembered in the early days👍 Nice work by the way
Hi tribsat100
Thanks for the comment - that's an awesome way to remember X,Y,Z, correctly. I always get those mixed up 👍
Thanks for watching 🙂
Congratulations friend ... I'm trying to make one ... your video will help me a lot ... Congratulations ...
X is left/right, Y is forward/backwards, Z is up/down
How are the spindle bearings holding up after the years please? Awesome simple design I love it.
Really inspiring, great job 👍
Have you thought about filling the tubes with concrete to increase the mass? Something like lead shot would probably be ideal to really bulk that guy up (and wouldn't make the tubes impossible to rework in the future if you ever wanted to modify the design). It would be expensive, sure, but maybe worth it? It would probably help with the issue of the thing wanting to turn itself loose and increase the stability. Building/ sourcing a dedicated stand for it would probably help, too. The bench it's sitting on right now doesn't look flimsy by any means, but maybe not providing the kind of stability the unit is needing. You could then, of course, add even more weight to the tubing of any stand you had and could even bolt it to the floor. In fact, if you could bolt the thing to the floor really well, then you may even be able get away with not weighting anything (or weighting less) and instead using some extra support brackets to transfer some of the force down into the concrete.
I always figured that a mill would be totally out of reach for me unless I butchered a drill press or started selling family members. This actually looks quite a bit better than some of those hack-y drill press conversions I've seen around. I'll have to keep my eyes open for some orphaned hefty electric motors (and I threw away a pallet full of them about 3 months ago at work :/)
Great Stuff Seth
Nice work👍
I know people upgrade their Seig Mills spindle motors with treadmill motors but never saw someone throw that motor in their Z axis. It’s overkill for that axis. I would say throw it on your spindle but you have an ever more overkill motor on that as well lol. That motors size looks like the motors I see on monster mills that weigh a ton in machinists garages at home.
good!!! good work!!!!
Thankyou very much.
nice work
Where did you get the shaft from, that holds the Morse taper. ?
Hi Paul - thanks for the comment.
The Spindle shaft was hand made on my lathe.
Additional information about the build including a diagram of the M3 Taper shaft diagram and parts used can be found at www.homemadetools.net/forum/diy-milling-machine-74852
Hope that helps.
棒极了！
Great video by I’m wondering why you don’t just use a three jaw chuck for your lathe? It would save time when putting it in.
Hi Escapi - thanks for the comment.
I do have a 3 jaw chuck but I decided to use the 4 jaw as it's more accurate and can be dialed in perfectly. The 3 jaw chuck has 0.03mm runout which wasn't suitable for this project.
Nice
can you show/explain a bit more in detail how you got your toolhead fixed in the bearing blocks? Thanks
Hi Fenix
Thanks for the comment. There really isn't that much to it, I made some small grooves in the outer wall of the drive shaft for the bearing grub screws to seat into. This process seems to work well and is easily removable for maintenance.
I diagram of the drive shaft can be found in the link below - hope that helps.
www.homemadetools.net/forum/diy-milling-machine-74852
nice job over there!! would like to know how the whole construction slide on the pipe (tube) !! bearings??
Thanks for the comment, for additional information about the build and parts used please visit the links below.
Homemadetools forum www.homemadetools.net/forum/diy-milling-machine-74852
Hackaday forum hackaday.com/2019/09/01/scrapyard-milling-machine-gets-work-done-on-a-budget/#comment-6176735
Mechine enna rate sir? Epadi nanga vanganum?
Any chance of an update on the flanged bearing blocks you used, I asked 10 months back and no reply as of yet.
Hope your ok?
Hello rct2
Apologies I missed your comment.
The bearings have held up well considering the load they are under.
I got them for cheap off eBay from China so I wasn't too worried if they gave out.
But all in all performing well.
@@MaximumDIY awesome thanks for getting back to me just the answer I was after.
Great job.
Great mill mate, would love a mill for my workshop. I do have an old lathe with a treadmill upgrade though. But this has given me a few great ideas for me and future video builds. What part of Australia are you in?
G'day Doin Stuff
Thanks for the comment, I'm glad this video has helped to inspire new ideas, I'm located in Illawarra NSW.
Where abouts are you from?
@@MaximumDIY Cool, I'm located in Dayboro a small town 25km north west of Brisbane QLD where I run my channel from. If it's ok I'll borrow a few ideas of yours that you used on your mill.
@@DoinStuff Thanks or the quick reply. I'm happy for you to use my ideas, please feel free to use this link in your videos.
Channel: th-cam.com/users/maximumdiy
DIY milling Machine Original video: th-cam.com/video/1-So7Ei8V2o/w-d-xo.html
DIY Milling Machine Revised video: th-cam.com/video/Hh18qEMccYM/w-d-xo.html
The cone on spindle is MT2 ??if yes working good?? I'm ask because at the moment doing a milling machine and think about the spindle ... I wont to do a MT2 cone , what you think ??
Hi Sergio - thanks for the comment.
The spindle boore / cone is an M3 Taper. I choose the M3 Taper as the tooling is used on entry level milling machines and if my home made milling machine didn't pan out. I had already purchased the correct tooling for an entry level machine and could still use it.
The M3 Taper seems to work well and it's the same size as my milling machine tailstock.
The M2 Taper is simmilar just smaller in diameter and would be limited in size to place the bolt all the way through for securing the milling attachment to the shaft.
Hope that helps.
A diagram of the MillingMachine Shaft + more info can be found here: www.homemadetools.net/forum/diy-milling-machine-74852
@@MaximumDIY kind regards Max
"Lock it in Eddie" would definitely make you an Aussie, so what part of the big brown land are you from?
As for myself, I am in Melbourne.
Hi Mark
Thanks for the comment and yes I'm an Aussie located Illawarra NSW
Just needs a DRO.
Nice work. Is it possible to contact you direct as I’ve got a project I may need your skills on. Paid of course!
Thanks
Hi Dex
Thanks for the reply but I must decline, these project are done in my free time which is extreemly limited these days.
Thanks for watching, all the best.