05-13-2017, 08:46 PM
Norm (a friend and fellow Chinese Buffet fan) came over yesterday, and helped out with the preliminary motor bracket, we mounted motor and ran it off an extension coed for a little while.
This morning, I rounded up all of the parts to wire the mill, the Square D on-off switch, forward-reversing switch, the plug and some SO cable. Wired up the mill, to operate on 230 vac, single phase. Wonder will never cease, I had a 50/50 shot on getting the rotation right, on the direction switch and damn, I got it first time. Usually when wiring a motor, you get that 50/50 chance and I'm usually wrong about 80% of the time. I ran the mill under no load for 1-2 hours at various speeds, motor got to about 110 degrees, mill head assembly remained at about 85 Degrees.
The UPS truck arrived at the end of the driveway (strange for a Saturday, at least here) and I got 3 boxes. My order from Grizzly came, new table handwheels and folding safety handles. Grizzly did screw up the order, the packing slip showed a dozen 7/16" t-nuts, but none were in the box. At least they are consistent, they have screwed up my last 5 orders, is someway or another. They have made them right, just takes time.
My HSS end mill order hit, all was correct.
My new Shars 4" vise arrived, I bought from a guy in Rochester area, he bought it brand new, opened the box, said looks good and then 3-4 days later got a hell of a deal on a much bigger mill, then retooled for that, this has set for about 6-8 months in his garage, so I snapped it up for $75, which included shipping. I set the vise on the table, will probably remove the swivel base, but vise look very nice.
So this afternoon, I started to change the handles on the mill, I did the knee and the Y- axis handle, and started to work on the table end handles, ran out of daylight. Placed my nut bolt order for the shop and ordered the 4" x 4" x 3/8" box tubing, to start my riser/base. The tubing and the adjusting feet should get the mill about 6" higher than it is now.
This morning, I rounded up all of the parts to wire the mill, the Square D on-off switch, forward-reversing switch, the plug and some SO cable. Wired up the mill, to operate on 230 vac, single phase. Wonder will never cease, I had a 50/50 shot on getting the rotation right, on the direction switch and damn, I got it first time. Usually when wiring a motor, you get that 50/50 chance and I'm usually wrong about 80% of the time. I ran the mill under no load for 1-2 hours at various speeds, motor got to about 110 degrees, mill head assembly remained at about 85 Degrees.
The UPS truck arrived at the end of the driveway (strange for a Saturday, at least here) and I got 3 boxes. My order from Grizzly came, new table handwheels and folding safety handles. Grizzly did screw up the order, the packing slip showed a dozen 7/16" t-nuts, but none were in the box. At least they are consistent, they have screwed up my last 5 orders, is someway or another. They have made them right, just takes time.
My HSS end mill order hit, all was correct.
My new Shars 4" vise arrived, I bought from a guy in Rochester area, he bought it brand new, opened the box, said looks good and then 3-4 days later got a hell of a deal on a much bigger mill, then retooled for that, this has set for about 6-8 months in his garage, so I snapped it up for $75, which included shipping. I set the vise on the table, will probably remove the swivel base, but vise look very nice.
So this afternoon, I started to change the handles on the mill, I did the knee and the Y- axis handle, and started to work on the table end handles, ran out of daylight. Placed my nut bolt order for the shop and ordered the 4" x 4" x 3/8" box tubing, to start my riser/base. The tubing and the adjusting feet should get the mill about 6" higher than it is now.
jack