{"id":224,"date":"2014-01-27T12:35:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T12:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/?p=224"},"modified":"2014-01-28T13:36:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T13:36:13","slug":"broken-spindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/making\/broken-spindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken spindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My old Chinese CNC router was cutting away a piece of plywood to make a housing for a supercapacitor power unit when I heard a crunching noise and a squeak, with smoke. The spindle of the router had finally died, after several months of decline.<br \/>\nToday I received my new spindle, a German one (Kress 1050 FME-1). Fear not stereotype, the German tool is definitely better than the original. It took a bit of twiddling to make it fit, including the 3D printing of a bright orange excentered collet to fit the narrower mount of the new device.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/routers.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-226\" alt=\"routers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/routers.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/routers.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/routers-300x117.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a>I had to lift up the work table by 30mm, which I did with crudely sawn MDF pads, not the job I am the proudest of&#8230; The plan is to eventually cut an aluminium plate mount to drop the spindle by 30mm and fit the table back to its original position.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, by the end of the day I had cut the three parts for my supercap battery housing. tomorrow I am off to Flowering Elbow&#8217;s open day near Carmarthen, where maybe it will all come together!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My old Chinese CNC router was cutting away a piece of plywood to make a housing for a supercapacitor power unit when I heard a crunching noise and a squeak, with smoke. The spindle of the router had finally died, after several months of decline. Today I received my new spindle, a German one (Kress 1050 FME-1). Fear not stereotype,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[33,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}