Taig ER2019 CNC mill and accessories

[Kelly McLaughlin]

Taig 2019 CNC with Gecko 540 4 axis controller, ER collet spindle, metric and standard collets, 550watt DC tooth belt drive (approx 3/4 hp, originally ships with 1/3 hp ac motor and oring size v belt drive) 0-10,000 RPM spindle speed manually controlled, 5c rotary table, assortment of new carbide end mills and ball end mills. Clamping kit , T-nuts, vise and vacuum attachment. licensed Mach 3 software not completely set up. (i'll explain) Bought new in 2015 has approximately 75 hours. please ask any questions you have. 403-878-2555 (call or text) should be a good deal for someone at 3000.00, the mill currently is 2495.00 US approx 3400.00 Cdn.

 

[Kelly McLaughlin]

decided to hang on to it, It will get added to my list of winter projects : )

 

[djberta]

Hi Kelly, you have a sowing machine motor on it? How well does it work as far as speed control, torque? Nice to see your keeping it.

 

[Kelly McLaughlin]

Hi There! Those motors and controllers work extremely well, I have one on this mill, my lathe and another small knee mill I have, good torque and the tooth belt is a nice positive drive, this mill with the taig setup would break cutters for what seemed no reason, I finally figured out the tiny v belt was slipping so the cutter wasn't cutting but the table was driving, once I changed to the tooth belt it works perfectly, I rerouted the speed control to a pot on the control box so it has 0 to 10,000 and the digital readout reads half of the spindle speed. I've decided to make it portable (in a cabinet) so I'll bite the bullet and spend the 100 hours learning mach 3 : )

 

[djberta]

That's cool. I am looking to use one of those motor sets for my belt grinder as they can be had for pretty cheap all together.

Start a thread going on getting it all together and cutting.

 

[Mcgyver]

That's cool. I am looking to use one of those motor sets for my belt grinder as they can be had for pretty cheap all together.

Further to what Kelly said, I'll give a vote of confidence on these motors. It looks like a Consew or one consew clone which I have used on several small machines. You might be thinking the typical 1/10 hp bits of nothing sewing machine motors, but these are a quite commercial SM motor. They are 3/4 HP and are servos. Even if discounted for smaller Chinese horses, it is still substantial for that size machine. Magnets and hall sensors signal the RPM to the controller. Increase the load, even substially, and it increase the current so speed stays the same. Even at low rpm they really deliver a lot of power and imo are a great power source for small machine.

The only downside is they seem to have gone up a lot in price, $267 now for the "geniune" consew from Amazon. clones are cheaper