bugman53
Aluminum
- Joined
- Oct 7, 2007
- Location
- Greensboro NC
Good afternoon, A good friend of mine gave me a Enco milling machine Bridgeport clone. I striped it down and restored her. It has hard chrome ways with NO visible wear at all. Only .004-.006 backlash on the x and y axis. Absolutely great shape. The only issue with her is the motor shaft is broken. So it needs a motor. My buddy that gave it to me is a machinist and he made an adapter to fit a standard 184TC? face mount motor.
Option a
Source an original Motor and use the variable speed on the head.
Option B
Source a 184Tc Motor and install it with the adapter and extend the shaft to modify it to work with the Variable speed pulley
Option c (what i am leaning toward).
Install a 3-5HP 3 phase motor, Remove all the variable speed drive parts and install a fixed pulley ratio and control the speed with the VFD. Probably using j6 microgroove belts and pulleys.
Has anyone done the above?
Option a
Source an original Motor and use the variable speed on the head.
Option B
Source a 184Tc Motor and install it with the adapter and extend the shaft to modify it to work with the Variable speed pulley
Option c (what i am leaning toward).
Install a 3-5HP 3 phase motor, Remove all the variable speed drive parts and install a fixed pulley ratio and control the speed with the VFD. Probably using j6 microgroove belts and pulleys.
Has anyone done the above?