Erik Christiansen wrote: > Hmmm, my quill lacks a stop ring. There's just the last 2" length > widening from 3.5" to 3.75", then the INT30 socket and dogs below that. > Ahh, somehow I was under the impression this was a Bridgeport or clone, but quite a different machine. It may be possible to adapt something to the side of the quill, but my experience with a ballscrew drive that attaches to the quill nose showed it was a poor solution. if you made it insanely rigid, it MIGHT work OK, the one I saw "looked" adequate, but measurement showed a lot of fles. > I was thinking of boring out a piece of 1" thick steel plate to 3.75", > to make the clamp. The rest seems to mimic what you've aleady done, just > at the side, because that's closer to the quill, once the pinion drive > is removed. > If the 1" thick plate doesn't reduce quill travel, then you may have a solution. > The quill nose can best be seen after scrolling down to the second lot of > pictures at: https://www.machineryhouse.com.au/Products?stockCode=M161 > > This is just like software development. Time spent working through the > wrinkles before you cut [code|metal] pays off one hundredfold. > Especially since this machine also has a horizontal spindle, it may make a lot more sense to make the knee the driven axis (Z for vertical, Y for horiz. spindle).
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