vMilly

Since i followed Sebastian End's "Elke" build and watched talla83 retrofitting videos i wanted to build a vertical/console style CNC. The dream of a really rigid UHPC machine or a retrofit is still there, but shifted into the far future.

Stumbling along ebay i found a cheap set of 6 used 15mm linear rails. That in hands and some 1204 Ballscrews in stock i started drawing around a bit. Just before ordering some 180x90mm profiles a friend provided me with a really massive Robounits profile with 200x100mm. Great! Had to adapt my plans and cut the profile in pieces, but quite fast it started looking really good i think ;_)

The machine table was build from 500mm of 240×40 profile, a small 120×120 profile was used to get the offset for the Z-Axis. All other parts were milled out of 8mm HPL, for some parts i had to glue 3 layers of that to get enough offset to fit the ballscrews between the rails. These parts will either be milled from Aluminum later on or i will order them laser-cut in steel.

The spindle will be the same as on my HTD-3M Belt Mill, as it fits quite nice to the 120×120 profile and i was available for cheap at this time.