Following on from the brief mention in my own introduction the other day I thought I would share, and seek advice, on the re-commissioning of my mill.
A purchase made from ebay between Covid lock-downs which has sat in my workshop ever since. Now, with a bit of time being freed up I looking to get it running.
Pics of it from the eBay auction:
And a couple of bits of tooling that came with it:
The fun and games of getting it home:
Where it sat outside my metalshop (we kinda have a woodshop here too), under the tractor shed with my Harrison Lathe (which will get its own thread), for a month or so while I cleared out all the stuff that had been dumped in it so that I could a) recalaim my space to b) get on with my own stuff:
Before getting placed, all be it temporarily for now, roughly where I aim to set it up:
With things taking place on the Harrison I've started to think about what will be required on the Bridgeport, and yesterday took a look inside the electrical enclosure...
Ahh...hmmm...what on earth is going on in there!?! From the fact that it has powered drives on each bed axis, and a factory option DRO fitted, I'm guessing the MGE Isolating Transformer at the top is providing their 110V supply, but there are dead legs everywhere and that black box floating around at the bottom :/ Hum this might not be so straight forward. Anyone recognise anything????
Supply wise I don't have 3 phase and was thinking of going down a Digital Phase Converter route to supply 415V to it and drive everything through the cabinet as one...now having looked in there...Help!
A purchase made from ebay between Covid lock-downs which has sat in my workshop ever since. Now, with a bit of time being freed up I looking to get it running.
Pics of it from the eBay auction:
And a couple of bits of tooling that came with it:
The fun and games of getting it home:
Where it sat outside my metalshop (we kinda have a woodshop here too), under the tractor shed with my Harrison Lathe (which will get its own thread), for a month or so while I cleared out all the stuff that had been dumped in it so that I could a) recalaim my space to b) get on with my own stuff:
Before getting placed, all be it temporarily for now, roughly where I aim to set it up:
With things taking place on the Harrison I've started to think about what will be required on the Bridgeport, and yesterday took a look inside the electrical enclosure...
Ahh...hmmm...what on earth is going on in there!?! From the fact that it has powered drives on each bed axis, and a factory option DRO fitted, I'm guessing the MGE Isolating Transformer at the top is providing their 110V supply, but there are dead legs everywhere and that black box floating around at the bottom :/ Hum this might not be so straight forward. Anyone recognise anything????
Supply wise I don't have 3 phase and was thinking of going down a Digital Phase Converter route to supply 415V to it and drive everything through the cabinet as one...now having looked in there...Help!
