Please ignore the mess in the following pics: I have TINY gun and reloading rooms, and most of the contents of the gun room had to be moved out to make room for putting the flooring in and then, maybe, the mill...
I just bought a PM-45 CNC.
This is it, currently sitting in my storage room...
As you can sort of see in the above pic, the electronics and controls are housed in a steel box, currently bolted to the back of the mill.
My plan is to mount it to the wall, above and to the right of the mill, like so (the width is correct on the template, although the height is not...there is plenty of room height wise):
The table is 45" wide, including overhangs for the stepper motor and controls on the end.
The room I'd like to put it in is basically 73" x 89"
I cut out cardboard templates and laid them on the floor...
This is the template for the channeled plate that goes between the mill itself and the stand. The stand and mill itself are a bit smaller, of course... This is on the floor, centered left-to-right, and 6" from the back wall. This gives me 15" on the left and right side of the ends of the table... with 26" of travel, that should be just enough room... If I have to, I can set my limits and make the travel a bit smaller...
I am going to try to keep the storage unit to the left... I'm just going to space the shelves out so that they don't interfere with the table... If it proves too awkward, I'll remove it entirely, but I just don't have a lot of storage room.
The next problem is that getting it into this room is going to be...interesting: Although the doorway you see in the pics above is 36", the door in the foreground of the following pic is only 32"...
So, do y'all think I'm crazy? I know this is tight, and not optimal, but my gun room has HVAC, and since this is Texas, that's basically a must...
Any reasons I should absolutely, positively, NOT do this?
Thanks,
Robert
I just bought a PM-45 CNC.
This is it, currently sitting in my storage room...
As you can sort of see in the above pic, the electronics and controls are housed in a steel box, currently bolted to the back of the mill.
My plan is to mount it to the wall, above and to the right of the mill, like so (the width is correct on the template, although the height is not...there is plenty of room height wise):
The table is 45" wide, including overhangs for the stepper motor and controls on the end.
The room I'd like to put it in is basically 73" x 89"
I cut out cardboard templates and laid them on the floor...
This is the template for the channeled plate that goes between the mill itself and the stand. The stand and mill itself are a bit smaller, of course... This is on the floor, centered left-to-right, and 6" from the back wall. This gives me 15" on the left and right side of the ends of the table... with 26" of travel, that should be just enough room... If I have to, I can set my limits and make the travel a bit smaller...
I am going to try to keep the storage unit to the left... I'm just going to space the shelves out so that they don't interfere with the table... If it proves too awkward, I'll remove it entirely, but I just don't have a lot of storage room.
The next problem is that getting it into this room is going to be...interesting: Although the doorway you see in the pics above is 36", the door in the foreground of the following pic is only 32"...
So, do y'all think I'm crazy? I know this is tight, and not optimal, but my gun room has HVAC, and since this is Texas, that's basically a must...
Any reasons I should absolutely, positively, NOT do this?
Thanks,
Robert