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Posted by Tom Wait on May 11, 2006, 1:10 am
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> > Halleluiah, I finally got a power feed on the X axis of my UM. I
> > looked and looked but could not find a factory power feed. I gave up
> > and spent $200 on a Chinese Servo knock-off. Adapting it to the
> > Hardinge was a matter of making a shaft extension, adding two needle
> > thrust bearings to the unit and hacking of the excess material on the
> > table end casting that came with the power feed. Oh joy, oh joy, no
> > more cranking! A DRO is next. Tom
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> Interesting, how about a couple pictures to the RCM Drop box and a text
> file explaining more or less what you did. I have a TM with the factory
> table feed, but I think changing belts is going to be inconvenient. I
think
> a traditional table feed would work much better. A smaller Servo would be
> great.....
I thought about taking pics as I was doing it. Alas, my digital camera took
a bath in a cooler full of ice water a while ago and never recovered.
I will have to remove the power feed in the future to touch up the casting.
When I do, I can shoot some stills with my digital cam-corder, but the
picture quality isn't much. I'll post something then.
The power feed unit does look kinda big on the end of the table, a smaller
one would look nicer. I bought the Asong unit from a seller on Ebay. It's
the 135 inch-pound version. It has plenty of torque.
Tom
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> looked and looked but could not find a factory power feed. I gave up
> and spent $200 on a Chinese Servo knock-off. Adapting it to the
> Hardinge was a matter of making a shaft extension, adding two needle
> thrust bearings to the unit and hacking of the excess material on the
> table end casting that came with the power feed. Oh joy, oh joy, no
> more cranking! A DRO is next. Tom
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