Member postings for Philip D

Brian,

If you have 3phase to the house why run an inverter ???

Philip

Edited By Philip Devonport on 20/04/2018 20:59:23

Richard, single phase motors ?? horizontal and vertical.

I too have one of these machines and fitting the DRO is the next job.

Be aware that the X axis fitted to the back of the table, ideally needs to be as shallow as possible so as not to lose travel. The Y axis is tricky to fit and the Z normally ends up on the column side.

There is a Yahoo group for Elliott owners **LINK**

A photo gallery which has quite few Omnimills fitted with DRO should help with design / fitment

Which French supplier as i can't find anything by searching the forum ??

A quote from an advert on homeworkshop posted 2 days ago... read into this what you will

Edited By Philip Devonport on 16/08/2017 19:05:32

Edited By Neil Wyatt on 17/08/2017 16:50:49

Garry, where are you based ??

Clive India and others, can I suggest a free program called Ghostery which I use in Firefox, It works a dream and is easy to use if the odd website doesn't function you just pause it and reload the page.

Philip

Nigel, would love to see some pics, my uncle owns one and mentioned the issue with the vertical head. I'd be interested to look at your increasing rigidity design.

Philip

Thank you Mark, This really has helped me and I hope to be able to progress to fitment on my machine.

Mine is of the later design, the same as you used for milling the aluminium on, with the motor on the table. Two handles on the table ..luxury

Philip

Hi Jay,

The motor that is on the machine now will forward and reverse it just needs suitable wiring. If you weren't using an inverter you would just have to wire it through a suitable switch, but the inverter will control speed as well as forward an reverse.

Edited By Philip Devonport on 15/01/2017 20:38:39

Mark,

More pictures would be most welcome, thanks for the explanation. To be honest my machine was running perfectly well but with the strip down to move and the motors off, it seemed ludicrous not to tackle everything whilst it's in bits than doing it later. Painting wouldn't have come into it had it not been for this as well..

Philip

Hi Mark,

Yes it was me that message you regarding the DRO, have you bonded that piece holding the front of the X axis ?(behind the knee handle). Currently on to sorting out the electrical side and have the base casting in primer.

I haven't got round to thinking out the DRO yet, but this will help

Philip

With regards the Table motor, I recently got a Elliott Omnimill and paid a local motor rewinders to pull the star point. The cost per motor was £60 this including replacing the bearings, pulling the star point out and a re-varnish.

So I am not sure were you are located but this maybe a viable option, thus enabling you to run on inverters as planed.

Ralph, interested in your build. Just start to budget for patterns !!