Doing that dangerous “thinking” again. I wonder why I could not adapt one of these to the machine I built, then I could use all the tooling and collets I have over on my HF 44491 CNC’d mini-mill?
http://littlemachineshop.com/products/product_view.php?ProductID=1944&category=-269978449
Just remove the gears and add a motor and pulley…hmmm time to talk to the lady in charge of finances…
I’ve been following your posts for a couple of weeks Bruce… Appreciate the great stuff you share! If the finance czar grants approval, would love to see how this turns out!
Am I understanding your thoughts correctly Bruce?
If you are upgrading to a higher HP spindle and a larger collet, which one? Most of the routers and commercial spindle drives have multiple collet inserts for different size tool shanks and even the high precision inserts would be about half of the device you are looking at.
@Bear_U Not exactly. I have a quiet spindle, a small trim router, and a full size wood router that attach to my DIY CNC. I am simply thinking about using this HF/Grizzly assembly with an R8 size spindle on this router so that I can use the same tooling as HF my mini-mill. I already have the R8 collets and associated tooling.
@Casey_Cowart We’ll see what happens. I may just attempt to taken the components off my mini-mill and mount them on here to see if it works before I spend the money, only that leaves me with out my mill temporarily.
I am guessing that this will be lighter than the full size wood router with mount, and I’ll know how than one works in the morning, so if that is found true, I will try this one too.
I don’t think it is worth using the whole assembly. You still have to rig a motor mount and a mount for the casting. I am doing something similar with the lathe version but instead of the whole assembly, I am just using the spindle mounted in $2 worth of 2-1/2" schedule 80 pipe.
Sounds like you have an interesting variation of a Bridgeport spline drive in mind. I look forward to see what that fertile mind is designing…
i had that same thought a few days ago