<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7f3ce828-cb00-4ca9-948e-6d38f05e491d/F66F5232-D4EF-4AAA-886B-5FFA122BD886/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.hackaday.com/2006/11/12/make-a-badass-cnc-mill/" href="http://www.hackaday.com/2006/11/12/make-a-badass-cnc-mill/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.hackaday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hackaday.com/2006/11/12/make-a-badass-cnc-mill/"><DIV id="pc706370"><IMG width="400" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="325" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.hackaday.com/media/2006/11/hf-mill-modded-had.jpg" /><BR />Ben Heck and I got into converting a mill to be a CNC machine during our <A href="http://www.hackaday.com/2006/11/03/ben-heckendorn-interview-part-1/">podcast interview</A>. Today I found a <A href="http://www.balbots.com/articles.php?tPath=14">pair of great write ups</A> at <A href="http://www.balbots.com/">balbots</A> on modding the <A href="http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=47158">Harbor Freight mini mill</A> that I mentioned. <A href="http://www.balbots.com/article_info.php?articles_id=10">Part 1</A> get into all the details of converting the mill to use stepper motors, and adding a cooling system. <A href="http://www.balbots.com/article_info.php?articles_id=11">Part 2</A> covers upgrading to DC servo motors and replacing the gears with a belt drive system.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F66F5232-D4EF-4AAA-886B-5FFA122BD886/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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