Sherline 5400 3 axis cnc upgrade.

[Fred Rowe]

My son, Kevin and I have been busy despite the cold this winter. We have been working to upgrade the Sherline 5400 mini mill to 3 axis cnc. I put the table together and did the physical mounting of the monitor and the wiring; Kevin mounted the drives and took care of the programming. The kit, that came from Sherline was $1,000 complete other than the limit switches and the computer; which my son had half a dozen of them laying about. We have about $1,250 in the conversion. The build is fairly straight forward when it comes from Sherline. We could have gotten the parts a little cheaper but we did not want to botch the hook ups and play with the mountings.

 

[KenH]

Neat. You will LOVE the CNC. Are you using Linux or windoz machine? That is larger, stronger than my dinky CNC, but I still have fun with it.

Ken

 

[Fred Rowe]

Neat. You will LOVE the CNC. Are you using Linux or windoz machine? That is larger, stronger than my dinky CNC, but I still have fun with it.

Ken

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Hi Ken! it comes with Linux software using G-code. We have a J head Bridgeport that uses Windows 7 and is pc based that we use to run our larger parts. I hope to use this smaller one a bit; its amazing the software programs they have for them; they can do just about everything but make a good knife.
Fred