I'm at the point where I'm getting my mill (lets just say it's a G0704) back together with the CNC conversion.
I made a little knob to go in place of the stepper motor to test things, and see how tight it all is.
Maybe it's "just me", but it seems quite tight when I'm turning it, considering I've got ball screws. The ball screws turned very freely on the shaft when it was all just in my hand.
In reality, I can pull the taper right out and it's not THAT bad (the knob's OD is only a little under 3/4", so I've go virtually no leverage). I just don't want to set it too tight and over tax my steppers.
I was going to make a little adapter to let me hook my in/lb torque wrench up and see just "how tight" it is. Maybe I'm being paranoid?!
Also found it odd that the taper sticks out a long way (more than I remember from 2 years ago when I took it apart!) when it's adjusted "right". For some reason I thought it was more even at both ends.
Geez, I hope I didn't mix up the 3 tapers!
I made a little knob to go in place of the stepper motor to test things, and see how tight it all is.
Maybe it's "just me", but it seems quite tight when I'm turning it, considering I've got ball screws. The ball screws turned very freely on the shaft when it was all just in my hand.
In reality, I can pull the taper right out and it's not THAT bad (the knob's OD is only a little under 3/4", so I've go virtually no leverage). I just don't want to set it too tight and over tax my steppers.
I was going to make a little adapter to let me hook my in/lb torque wrench up and see just "how tight" it is. Maybe I'm being paranoid?!
Also found it odd that the taper sticks out a long way (more than I remember from 2 years ago when I took it apart!) when it's adjusted "right". For some reason I thought it was more even at both ends.
Geez, I hope I didn't mix up the 3 tapers!
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