Z velocity

[Richard <phebos-at-btinternet.com>]

Hi,

I'm CNC'ing a knee mill with a 56" x 10" (36" x 18" travel)
table and 18" knee travel, 5" quill travel. I'm planning on
around 200IPM for the table but haven't a clue how to gear the z
axis quill.

I'm working on bracketry to hold the 0.2" pitch ballscrew and
pulleys & belts. I'm using AC Servo motors and drives and have
one of around 3.5Nm(500oz in) constant stall / 25Nm(3500 oz in)
abs max peak reserved for the Quill drive. Current thinking is
double HTD pully reduction of 127/30 and 72/30 giving 0.5mm (20
thou) quill movement per motor rev and a max quill speed of
25mm/sec (~1"sec).

I've no idea what the norm is for home conversions. How do those
figures sound?. I guess the mill is similar to a large
Bridgeport. It's a Beaver MKII.

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Best regards,
 Richard