Thread: Sammy-WIP

I attended the CNC GtG in July 2013 and Russell (epineh) was kind enough to give me a machine to start with, nicknamed Sammy.

This generous gesture added to an already fantastic experience at this GtG, learned a lot and met some great people.
Thanks again Russell

Here are a couple of pictures of Sammy, still sporting Russells spindle, at the Cairns GtG.

Unfortunately it has been sitting in my shed since we came home in August, we went to the snow at Mt Buller with son and 2 granddaughters a week after came back then various other things took priority.

With Christmas out of the way I finally got my act together and made a start, first completing a 4th axis.

Then came the time to start installing a new spindle, a 12-48V DC 300W from Ebay, RPM up to 12000.

This came complete with mounting bracket which needed 4 new holes to be drilled in the Z axis carriage on Sammy.





The spindle uses ER11 collets, of which I have a full set on order.

It also came complete with a power supply, still trying to work out the Chinese labels for the input/output!