Last Sunday I stopped into an auction and was able to pick up an AMMCO
7" shaper for the piddling sum of $20.00A bit rough around the edges but should make a nice overhaul project when I finish the steam engine that I am working on now.
Hmmm. Do I picture a 2 axis CNC conversion here?
Errol Groff
Instructor, Machine Tool Department
H.H. Ellis Technical High School
643 Upper Maple Street Danielson, CT 06239New England Model Engineering Society
Wow bargain! Any chance of some pics?
CNC shaping machine sounds like a hoot!
The dmachine is at school. If I remember to take the digital camera on Monday I will post some pictures Monday evening.
Be warned though it isn't pretty now but the potential is there.
Errol
Errol, A truly worthy gloat!
I keep having delusions of CNC+Shaper too - growing from a simple idea for stops at limits of feed travel, then adding programmable feed, then getting all carried away with controlled tool slide and 'contouring'. Very do-able; I have just refrained because it is sooooo easy to make so much stuff *for* the shop that I don't get anything made *with* the shop.
I have settled (for the present) on a magnetic starter with a central limit switch in series with the hold relay. A slide trips the switch at either limit of travel.
Some get all of the toys.
Martin
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