If you have the motors from Homann, you should be good to go.

Shipping to NZ $65 Nice.

Ouch 

It was a nice day to get out of bed and out of the house, I'm still quite sick but enough is enough.

Progress: the keyboard shelf well the first part of it anyway:



The control panel, i have most of the buttons worked out, I'm thinking I'm going to need more though:



Im staring to wish i had have thought of the keyboard back in the design process (not that there was much of one) i would have loved to put a little touch screen above the buttons there.

I spent a few hours today working on the lower set of draws, this stuff is really fiddly but has to be done:



Ive got big problems, i had picked up on this throughout the build but knew i wouldn't be able to get a good idea of how far out things were until i had four sides together:



There is huge variation in the in the gap along the top of the door id say there is around a 15mm height difference. This probibly happened during the welding up of the coolant trey, from what i can work out one end is way lower than the other. this is going to be a major to fix, I really don't know what I'm going to do.

There is huge variation in the in the gap along the top of the door id say there is around a 15mm height difference. This probibly happened during the welding up of the coolant tray, from what i can work out one end is way lower than the other. this is going to be a major to fix, I really don't know what I'm going to do.

It's wonderful what a decorative trim strip can do to cover up such small problems! Get creative.

Cheers

I hadn't thought of that, a great way to avoid cutting the coolant tray from the base and re welding it.

thanks for the tip.

Got a few hours today, spent them on the MPG tunnel:



After that i spent some time trying to realign the door, i think im going to be able to get away without cutting the coolant tray off and reattaching it. i can see it now clear as day that it is warped in two opposing corners. lathe is looking good yes?

Oh btw good shipping conformation from cnc4pc parts are on there way yeeha!

The lathe is starting to shape up really nice. I like it a lot!

Dan

Slow progress at the moment as all of this stuff is really fiddly and takes a lot of time to get right.

slide rails are all in ready for the draws:

Anyone who is wondering what is going on? I'm waiting for the:

Nine9 engraving tool - late next week
CNC4PC control gear - any day now
Ball screws - Hoping next week
Laserpro - Draws, struts etc - early next week


What has turned up:
Angular contacts
Peter Hamann - Smooth stepper, Steppers, PSU
Gecko - Drivers

Ive been working on tidying up the mill so she's ready to work as soon as the other stuff shows up.