{"id":467,"date":"2011-08-30T16:25:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T20:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmillerid.com\/wordpress\/?p=467"},"modified":"2012-02-07T09:26:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T14:26:38","slug":"controller-box-mounting-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jmillerid.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/controller-box-mounting-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"controller box mounting arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t usually build as I go, without detailed planning or at least some sketches. But one Saturday a few weeks ago I had several hours to myself and I was itching to make some physical progress on the CNC conversion, so I took a quick inventory of my metal stock pile and just started building.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"mounting arm dry fit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jmillerid\/6097298493\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"custom CNC controller box mounting arm\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6072\/6097298493_eba2a6ec9a.jpg\" alt=\"custom CNC controller box welded steel\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a> The mounting arm for the CNC controller box&#8211;that physically attaches  the box to the mill&#8211;is a very simple part with well-defined parameters.  The controller box has four mounting holes on the back side and the  column of the mill is a thick iron casting that can be drilled &amp;  tapped basically anywhere. I knew approximately where I wanted the box  to be, so it was a simple connect-the-dots part design. I had a 2&#8242;  length of square steel tube and some angle iron, so I started chopping  it up and dry-fit it to the back of the controller box.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"mounting arm - welding\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jmillerid\/6097298757\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"MIG welded steel\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6088\/6097298757_bf5d643abe.jpg\" alt=\"MIG welded steel\" width=\"299\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I MIG welded it together (still practicing that welding&#8230; getting better) and cleaned it up, then primed it with some Rustoleum, then did a quick test fit on the mill.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"mounting arm - primed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jmillerid\/6097845068\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"custom CNC controller box mounting arm\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6203\/6097845068_841ea4e7e6.jpg\" alt=\"custom CNC controller box mounting arm\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"test fit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jmillerid\/6097299021\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"custom CNC controller box\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6210\/6097299021_322b584f93.jpg\" alt=\"custom CNC controller box\" width=\"374\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple of coats of black lacquer and it&#8217;s good to go!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"mounting arm - painted\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jmillerid\/6097846708\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"custom CNC controller box mounting arm\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6198\/6097846708_ff16b0959c.jpg\" alt=\"custom CNC controller box mounting arm\" width=\"374\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t usually build as I go, without detailed planning or at least some sketches. But one Saturday a few weeks ago I had several hours to myself and I was itching to make some physical progress on the CNC conversion, so I took a quick inventory of my metal stock pile and just started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[35,34,23,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jmillerid.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jmillerid.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jmillerid.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmillerid.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmillerid.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmillerid.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmillerid.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jmillerid.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmillerid.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmillerid.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}