A new toy

Following on from my recent post and post on building a CNC router. We just received a new toy today.

CNC Mill

Many thanks to Anthony for giving TOG this old Contour Minor CNC Milling Machine. The mill is in good working order, though it does rely on some old MS-DOS based software (I’ve already checked that it works with FreeDOS), I’m hoping we’ll be able to get it going with LinuxCNC.

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This was written by robfitz. Posted on Sunday, August 8, 2010, at 11:21 pm. Filed under CNC, Project. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

8 Comments

  1. Jamie Quinton wrote:

    Hi there, wonder if you could help me. I have one of these contour minor’s also but yet to get it converted to run on windows. Could you please help me with a query i have…What are the xyz travel limits? As i can’t power mine i can’t measure its movement. I’m desperately trying to get hold of a manual but can’t get one from anywhere..

    Any advice greatly appreciated.
    Thanks
    Jamie

    Monday, September 13, 2010 at 9:11 pm | Permalink
  2. robfitz wrote:

    Hi Jamie

    The approximate values are X 160mm, Y 100mm, Z 100mm.

    Robert

    Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 1:22 pm | Permalink
  3. Jamie wrote:

    Thanks rob, big help.

    Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at 12:55 pm | Permalink
  4. Jamie Quinton wrote:

    Sorry to be a pain, but i’m sure my Z travel looks more than 100mm. Still not on power yet so i can’t check. Can you confirm the Z travel please rob?
    Thanks Jamie

    Saturday, September 18, 2010 at 8:01 am | Permalink
  5. robfitz wrote:

    Yes your correct, the exact value will depend on the chuck and bits you are using. I got the 100mm value from the software protocol I’ve been decoding. At a guss the full travel would be closer to 200mm.

    Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 7:20 pm | Permalink
  6. Jamie Quinton wrote:

    great thanks rob…

    Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 10:39 pm | Permalink
  7. anthonycowan wrote:

    I have one of thest and it runs with techsoft 2D on Windows98

    Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 3:56 pm | Permalink
  8. namit wrote:

    Any chance you could help us get this working in the space?

    Monday, October 10, 2011 at 10:02 pm | Permalink

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