mods

Hey people, I'm currently considering upgrading/modding my conquest mini lathe, to a CNC lathe I've found some great free resources: That give me all the mechanical parts, the piece I'm missing it which motors to use Servo/Stepping / something else. So My questions are as follows: 1) What...

**Updated Feb 18 2017** Hello everyone! I wanted to create a continuation to my restoration thread for my newly acquired Zip-Cut mill. Its been a few weeks and I've been slowly tooling up and getting a feel for how it handles different cutters and materials. It's a great little machine and fits...

So I'm new to this forum but I've been doing a lot of reading/learning and a lot of it came from this site. I've got some basic machining skills from a couple machine shops I worked at as a kid and then I've been building stuff for years with some solid physics and math/geometry skills under my...