Optimum Optimill MH50V CNC conversion

Since the last update I've been finishing the tooling in preparation for the first CNC chips.

Bought some more ER32 collets and BT40 ER32 tool holders. Made some room for them in my little tool card which lives beside the mill and measured all the tool offsets so they could be entered into Probe Basic. I'm planning to mirror the tool information in FreeCAD later on.

 

 

 

Cutting the Kaizen style tool foam takes a while but the end result is worth it in my opinion.

 

 

 

The Omron encoder along with the belts and pulleys that I ordered have arrived but I haven't installed them yet.

 

Here are the first actual CNC chips done on the machine.



The part I'm milling is gonna be the belt and pulley cover for the Y-axis.