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10-05-2016 #1
Anyone here converted a manual Bridgeport mill to CNC?
After building my plasma table and my mini-mill, both of which are working lovely, I WANT MORE CNC ;) ;)
My old 9x48 Bridgeport is looking for some love but is it worth it?
It would need a ball-screw conversion kit, these are available, plus I am guessing servo drives on X, Y and Z so I have encoder display, the knee doesn't seem to get driven on the few vids i have watched so far.
On the plus side, it's already powered via a VFD :D and i could likely recoup some cash by selling the working power feeds, control box and new DRO i fitted last year.
Worth a look or too expensive/not good enough...
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