Gday Lee, this turned out fantastic, it certainly doesn’t look out of place and to still be able put it all back to original is a big plus, you really did a great job making this fit, thanks for sharing mate, take care, Matty
This is super timely for me Lee as I'm debating building my own feed similar to the one you built, or adapt one of the these for my RF mill. Based on what I saw in your two videos, I think I'm going to adapt one. Thank you for a great series.
Great video, even two years later. I always wonder why everyone was setting the power feed sideways on bench top mills even when they were not placed on a bench top.
Thanks Lee!!! And yes i do plan to do something like you have done here. I hade seen how inexpensive some power feeds have gotten. The thing i was not sure of you cover in one or both of the videos. Thanks for sharing.
Did you have to shim the drive gears to get proper backlash? Funny I was just looking at one I had on the bench that I bought for my round column mill but didn't think the shaft would line up. Now I have some direction. Thanks very much. Need one for my floor mill on the Y axis and may just do an adaptation now that I see how the mods can be made. One more question, could you have made a longer one piece bushing for the drive axle rather than make it in two pieces?
I have an almost identical power feed on my bridgeport type mill. The rapid feed button will overide whatever speed is set which is very useful for crossing a space. The return to the set speed from rapid is more or less instant. You do not need to set the speed to zero for the overide rapid button to work at rapid speed.
I see the brass gear moving axially when you change direction . That says the gears are not shimmed in a fixed position for proper gear lash. Is that true? Because you will quickly destroy the brass gear. Also didn’t see both thrust bearings reinstalled ? The power feed has needle roller for radial loading only. What takes the axial loads? If the acme screw loads of the table are going through your brass geartrain then it will destroy the gears very quickly. I have the same powerfeed and bench mill and was trying to solve the thrust issue before I start hacking the powerfeed. I m not clear that you addressed the problem.
Hello Lee, I am just about finished hooking my drive up, I was wondering if you can still use your hand wheel, or do you have to disable the drive to use it. Anything on the subject would be appreciated, cheers and thanks.
