Site Map |
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2003 |
Purchase and moving from Pennsylvania to Houston. Eleven photos plus text. | |
1/20/04 |
Making the dolly to move the mill 5 miles by trailer into a residential garage. | |
2/4/04 |
Continuing the dolly manufacture. | |
2/04 |
First trial lift of the mill. Seven photos and text. | |
2/24/04 |
First jack used in the mill mover. It would not work. Four photos and text. | |
2/26/04 |
New hydraulic system. It worked. | |
3/10/04 |
Setting up the mover to actually move the mill. | |
3/10/04 |
The mill on the mover being tilted into position for the move. | |
3/10/04 |
Continuing to tilt the mill into position on the mover. | |
3/12/04 |
Fully tilted into position and ready to move. One photo. | |
3/15/04 |
Loading the mill mover onto a trailer and finally into the final shop. | |
3/23/04 |
Changes to the BOSS 9. Photos of the mill head and Bridgeport video monitor. | |
3/31/04 |
Spindle repair. Removing broken bolts from the spindle nose. | |
4/04 |
Beginning of retrofit. Electronics have been removed from the mill. | |
5/16/04 |
Beginning of Centroid installation. | |
5/21/04 |
Continuing installation. Pictures of pulleys. | |
5/27/04 |
Controls have been added. Almost finished. | |
6/7/04 |
Servos installed. Controller up and running. Inverter added. | |
6/24/04 |
First job on the completed mill. | |
6/27/04 |
Building the table enclosure. | |
1/2/05 |
Modifications to table enclosure. Trico MD-1200 added. Tool holder added. | |
| 2/3/06 | Moved controller keyboard to a swivel table mounted on the mill base. | |
| 2/3/06 | Collet tray made of 1" 6061 aluminum | |
1/23/08 |
New chip cage and new keyboard | |
| 4/23/08 | Relocated control head |