CNC Router/Mill

[=Martin=Taylor=]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

Hachiban VII: Do you have any pictures/videos of you guys installing the ball screws into that mill? I'm guessing you had to take the ways off of it and all... I guess you used an engine hoist or something? That's a ton of work to get your backlash down...

No pics, but there used to be some on the IH website detailing the process.

As you said, we used an engine hoist to remove the ways. But that wasn't very hard for us. The hardest part was getting all the balls and greese and stuff packed in the bearings. We also had to drill and tap some holes in the mill to bolt stuff on - that's really hard to do with a hand drill

Come to think of it our team spends more time building tools than making robots We also built our own pipe bender from primitive equipment donated to us by a blacksmith.