Are you planning to use air compressor just for air cooling/misting? And/or does the ATC or anything else use pneumatic stuff?
For air cooling, am following Bartman’s/Jonathan’s setup… With filter/regulator, pneumatic tube, fittings, mixing valve with flex nozzle. I don’t like how stiff the 8mm hose is.
Yes, ATC always needs a stream of air to keep dust from entering the bearings etc. and to pick up and release tools.
Didn’t consider mist cooling yet, but I just might add a third waterline for mist while I’m at it. I really dislike disassembly of the drag chains… 
Bought an air filter for the intake and an oil filter for the air outlet as well as some fittings (picture from yesterday) to start using the vacuum pump that I was given as a trade-in for my Ghostrider on top of the money. Today I got some oil, filled it up and fired it up an first I was really like “what, that’s it?” when holding my finger to the air inlet. I also printed a fixture which I was not really impressed with because it didn’t hold the wood and I was like… eeeh. But then I noticed that my insulation thingy wasn’t hight enough. Added another strip and booooooy that thing sucks.
I now created a fixture for my ring-boxes that I fairly often make so that I can just suck them down when doing the engraving on top of it. I left one corner “cornery” and didn’t make it round so I can always find the corner with my touch probe if needed.
Any issues with the vacuum leaking through the printed layers? I guess you could to a clear/sealer coat over the part to reduce that.
That infill % are you using?
3 walls with a 0.6mm nozzle, 20% infill, no leaking. 
New toy arrived… 
I hope I’ll have the time to play with it soonish.
1.486,78 € EUR in total (Spindle, VFD, three ER16 tool holders (that were pretty expensive and I’d skip them the next time)). I asked for DDP and it was cheaper than “normal” shipping because it takes longer… I ordered on the 25th March, so I can absolutely live with that, saving 350€…
How much was shipping of your total after all of that? I know you saved 350 EUR off of the original shipping but what did you end up paying?
This.
OMG that was the shipping cost???
No, the hole thing including shipping. VFD, three tool holders, spindle, shipping.
Right but what of your ~1400 EUR spend ended up being shipping? Like was shipping still hundreds of EUR even after saving 350?
That’s the detailed breakdown:
The rest was PayPal fees.
I just noticed that I actually paid less because they quoted me in € but charged me in $, which was a loooot better for me.
Their support is also top notch, they reply in a few hours usually and the sent me everything I needed. Parameters for the VFD for control via 0-10V, schematics, connection diagrams etc. Everything in English.
I’ll be interested to see how hot it gets once you turn it on! 
give more info about temp reading … still thinking about it
I have info that 1 the same spindle is free in Belgium, new, newer used for good price
are you using the air when running? According the manual
Hey Peter, I am not doing it via the manual, that’s not possible regrettably. I did try turning the spindle by hand with it activated all the time and it does not make any difference, so I am just using a 5/2 valve for those two, the other two are addressed via 3/2s. The picture you posted that says “wrong” is the one Jianken also sends with their instructions, so they are still contradicting themselves. Per the support I could just leave it out with a new spindle as well.
The temperature reading has to be taken from the black cables (the brown ones are a different sensor), so the instructions aren’t clear there as well. Then it’s a normal 10kOhms resistor.
Didn’t you have one already?
