hello world..

i woke up one day and just decided to by a Grizzly G0619 i found on the net.
in my country it is not as easy to buy one as in the US, so when a lightly used one appeared i just had to have it!

my motivation is that i have always wanted to learn CNC machining, CAD design and production of parts so this is a tread about me learning that.


i have a small workshop inside a old army bunker inside a mountain and i am putting my machine there:
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this is the unit i bought, put on a home made table (also bought a C3 lathe from the same guy, seen in the background):
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my first challenge is that in my contry we don't have 110V but 230V so the motor and driver does not work.
i searched and read a lot about the Kelling drives, but i found the new store kelling put up not to have the 2200W motor that i wanted, so i started looking to china.

i wanted to upgrade to a more powerful motor since i will be doing steel work so a 2200W 3600RPM seamed a good idea. (i knew i had to modify the mount since it wont fit inside the head)

so a long story short, i found a company named Hipool: http://www.hipool.cn/en/
when i contacted them i got in touch with a fellow named Aven there and he was very helpful and spoke English fluently

we talked for a wile and i decided to try and make the mod for a bigger motor and not go for the 1100W drop in unit, and so a order was placed for the 2200W motor and i was going into wait mode....
2 DAYS later the parcel was delivered to my door!!! that's form the other side of the world! i was seriously impressed by that.
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inside the parcel the motor and electronics was nicely packed in Styrofoam and it looked like someone had cleaned the motor of the red storage grease before sending it, nice!
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the motor is huge! (compared to the OEM one):
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connections:
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what i want to do is make a similar mount to this that i found on the forum: (but i need to find someone to make it first)
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and i want to use the OEM motor pulley, and also a KX3 motor pulley to get into higher rpm's. covering a speed range on the spindle from 190 to 4200RPM (any thoughts on that?)