Project Frankenmill – Part 4, Balking Heads
New part for the build arrived today. 70 ohm, 300W braking resistor, for the VFD. Cheap from ebay. So cheap that one of the end caps was…
Project Frankenmill – Part 3, with a Heavy Head
One of my buddies that owns a pickup truck gave me a hand, and we picked up the spindle head at the local freight depot last night….
Project Frankenmill – Part 2, Approach
Mating the Head to the Z Slide Looking at the mounting of the Tormach head vs the X3 Z slide, it’s a bit eerie how close these…
Project Frankenmill – Part 1, The Idea
I’ve had my converted Sieg X3 for four years now. I used an off-the-shelf kit for the mechanicals of the initial conversion, sourced from the now-defunct ProMiCA…