Dave's Sherline Mill and Lathe
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I recently purchased a Sherline
milling machine and lathe. I opted for the
Ultimate Shop Package
which includes pretty much anything you need to get started. I also picked
up a few extra accessories (4 jaw chuck, threading package, etc.).
I decided that I wanted to play around with controlling the whole thing
from the computer, so I decided to get the CNC mounts and stepper motors as
well. I'm working on a design for the stepper motor controller board,
and I'll post the results when I get them.
You can click on the thumbnail to get a larger version of the picture,
and you can click on the larger version to get the full size image.
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Dave's Business Card
These are the guys I got everything from. When I got it, Solarbotics was
charging 5% below retail, using 1.5 as the exchange rate on the dollar,
and since they're located in Alberta, there was no Provincial Sales Tax to
pay (I'm in British Columbia, so normally I'd have to pay 7.5% PST).
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Back of Dave's Card
Dave's Mini-Sumo MiniCab lost to my Mini-Sumo Marauder
at the Western Canadian Robot Games, and in an attempt to discourage me
from improving Marauder, he wrote a note on the back of his enclosed
business card.
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First cut
Here's what it looks like after 3 or 4 passes to clean things up (I can't
hacksaw in a very straight line). This was a 1 inch diameter piece of aluminum.
I think I have to work on the speed/feed thing :)
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Mill Pieces
Here's the milling machine pieces taken out of the box. Since I don't have
the stepper controllers, I used some heat shrink tubing on the ends of the
motor leads and used electrical tape to wrap things up nicely.
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Stepper Detail
There weren't any reference marks on the stepper motors to align the hand
wheels to, so I scribed a small vertical line like this. I'll put some
blackener in later.
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