KX1 CNC Mill Clearance Offer

Getting mine in the workshop nearly finished me...

Since then the need to work for a living has prevented me putting in the needed time. I also need to source a suitably basic PC!

Neil

I managed to finish off the stand yesterday so popped down to one of the local hire shops early this morning and picked up their engine crane.

A bit of faffing about to get the straps short enough which required moving the mill and pallet onto the crane legs which was easy enough using the crane to just take the weight and letting it swing on and then plugging in to move the table forwards to get a better balance and up it went. I could not get quite close enough as the crane legs were hitting the cabinet base but with a bit of lifting and shoving by me while my old Dad eased the crane down had it slid back in place. Crane is back at the hire shop so only a £23 charge which was money well spent.

All ready to play with now.

Edited By JasonB on 22/03/2019 10:21:10

Edited By JasonB on 22/03/2019 10:22:13

Well done Jason, looks like a good little spot for it there. Is it in your woodworking shop, I think you mentioned thats where it would have to live. I bet you have a number of engine parts all lined up for it already.

Is the stand going to be braced?

Once the milling table starts jigging about with rapid X & Y moves, things can move about a bit if not rigid enough.

Martin.

My KX1 was delivered yesterday and a couple of weeks ago I bought a Aldi 3D printer, I am going to be on a steep learning curve.

When I know what I am doing one of the first jobs is going to be removing the metal from the inside of pistons it's not s fun job to do on a manual machine in batches of ten.

Ron, yes its in the woodwork shop, used to have a radial arm saw there but can't remember the last time I used it so decided that could go. few things in the pipeline that I'd like to use the CNC for.

Martin, I don't think its going to move about, if it did it would need to rip the cabinet on the right and worktop on the left off the wall as it is tied into those as well as the wall behind it. Probably more rigid than the metal cabinets that they make to put them on as they have no bracing at the front.

Old School, keep us posted of how you get on with yours.

This is the stand I made for my CNC mill from 50x50 ERW steel tube, complete with coolant tank and fitting for a pump:

I even did a calculation to check the buckling load of the uprights.

Andrew

Nothing so scientific here, I know I could stand on the end of one of those short CLS legs so that's more than 25% of the mill's weight, Fixings to back wall cabinet and worktop legs will also take some of the weight.

My workshop is such an unholy mess I can't criticise anyone but on the subject of buckling, it looks rather easy to accidentally kick one of those legs out:

My list of H&S infringements includes not owning a Fire Extinguisher...

Dave

Edited By SillyOldDuffer on 22/03/2019 13:54:12

Tut-tut, if you're not careful you might end an XoD.

By my workshop door I've got a small fire extinguisher, a professional eyewash kit and first aid kit.

Andrew

Took a while to move them, but all sold now. Thank you everyone.

Ketan at ARC.

That's good to hear and now you will have room for some new stock items

That's good news Ketan I'm sure the new owners will be very pleased with them. I've had my KX1 for a while now, it's a great little machine.

Ian

As the offer is now closed I have started a new thread for anyone with these machines to post their progress in