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My New Mill PM-45-PDF
- Thread starter mskobier
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Daver,
As you requested, here are some plans for the rolling base I drew up this morning. I just gave the major dimensions on the drawings. You should verify the dimensions of your base before any cutting or welding. I used 2" 3/16 wall square steel tubing for the frame and some pieces of 4" 1/4 thick angel for the end pieces. The square tubing is stitch welded together along their lengths to form the compound box structure that forms the front and rear of the base. 2" 3/16 wall square tubing ties the front and rear together and provides a surface to support the cabinet edge. This is also where the cabinet is bolted to the base. The diagonal braces on the end pieces are made of 1" 3/16" thick steel bar stock. Anyway, I think that between the photos of the stand and the cad drawings, you should get the idea. The drawings are not to scale. The dimensions given are accurate to within 1/8"
This mill is causing me to learn some new skills. I have a small amount of experience with doing cad drawings. I played with Autocad a little a number of years ago. It took me a few hours to draw up the plans for the base, but it was time well spent. When I was in college, we were still doing drawings by hand! The program I used is called Solid Edge 2D. I downloaded It for free from their web page. Anyway, here are JPG's of the drawings. You will want to save them to your computer then print them out for best resolution. I can email anyone who wants the native .DFT files.
Mitch
As you requested, here are some plans for the rolling base I drew up this morning. I just gave the major dimensions on the drawings. You should verify the dimensions of your base before any cutting or welding. I used 2" 3/16 wall square steel tubing for the frame and some pieces of 4" 1/4 thick angel for the end pieces. The square tubing is stitch welded together along their lengths to form the compound box structure that forms the front and rear of the base. 2" 3/16 wall square tubing ties the front and rear together and provides a surface to support the cabinet edge. This is also where the cabinet is bolted to the base. The diagonal braces on the end pieces are made of 1" 3/16" thick steel bar stock. Anyway, I think that between the photos of the stand and the cad drawings, you should get the idea. The drawings are not to scale. The dimensions given are accurate to within 1/8"
This mill is causing me to learn some new skills. I have a small amount of experience with doing cad drawings. I played with Autocad a little a number of years ago. It took me a few hours to draw up the plans for the base, but it was time well spent. When I was in college, we were still doing drawings by hand! The program I used is called Solid Edge 2D. I downloaded It for free from their web page. Anyway, here are JPG's of the drawings. You will want to save them to your computer then print them out for best resolution. I can email anyone who wants the native .DFT files.
Mitch
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Thank you!
Haric,
Thanks for the complement. You may want to look at the 932 mill that Precision Mathews currently has in stock. From the pictures on their web site, it appears to be basically the same machine, but with a power head lift motor. I'm almost finished converting mine to power head lift.
Good luck in your machine hunt!
Mitch
Thanks for the complement. You may want to look at the 932 mill that Precision Mathews currently has in stock. From the pictures on their web site, it appears to be basically the same machine, but with a power head lift motor. I'm almost finished converting mine to power head lift.
Good luck in your machine hunt!
Mitch
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That base looks great!