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I tried the helical Aluminum ones at first, went thru about 5 broken ones before I swore never to use them again.

Atlas / Craftsman one in Houston's Craigslist this morning cheap $650

My PM25MV came with a 3" but I got a 4" after running out of capacity on the 3" and seems to fit it perfectly and not too big, unfortunately machine shop stuff is hard to guage size from pictures as...

A national released feature length 3D movie should be made of this thread. just sayin'

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The quick change post looks like the A2Z sold at Little Machine. and look like several additional tool holders than what comes stock with it. $900..so so deal, $750 fairly good.

FAirly broad question, It depends on your project . can you elaborate?

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Glad you got it going.. now time to show the pieces you are making.

How did it go?

$750 Buy it now and at $500 reserve not met, I would bet reserve is no less than $725.

even C93s are going for no less than $675, and they used to be $499 less than a year ago.

too many guys...

Sadly the days of $599 cetmes and FALs are long gone and not likely to come back anytime soon.

Id be interested in the details, I purchased Hoss's belt drive plan but would love to look at options since I havent had time to implement, and havent decided which version would be best for me.

Ill attempt to add the pics of the lights I suggested.

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hope this works.

oh yeah, they plug right into any wall outlet and they have a switch on the magnetic base.

Im on my way out the door to work a night shift but Ill try to figure out how to post some tomorrow after I awake..

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I use these on my machines, I got one on my mill, lathe, band saw, and drill press. they are cheap illuminate very well and no need to tinker with power supplies r stuff like that.

20 LED Sewing...

since you do have one axis working lets run the process of elimination.

1. first step is to take the two non-working cat 5 cables from the main controller out.
2. next take the cat5 cable of...

Did you get it working? If so let us all know what it turned out to be so it gets added to troubleshooting ideas for future.

One more thing to add to the list of positives for the other half:

Drum roll please...

"It will keep you in the garage and not out getting in trouble"

That one works for me really good, not...

Wow.. sorry you didn't get the answers you were hoping to get,

I really dont think ANYONE here tried to steer you away from getting a CNC mill, quite the opposite, we all here either have one (or...

I think the solution to your ill are in the "Ports and Pins" configuration in the "Motor output" tab with the the "step low" or "dir low" settings of them , If I remember correctly this is how I was...

keep us in the loop on your conversion, I got one myself (Grizzly variant), have been considering it as well, just want to get good with it manually first, then convert it when I outgrow it and get a...

If you really want a CNC mill do NOT show your significant other this post.

IF its the 'widget' Im thinking of then the market is rapidly moving in all directions, and will probably be flooded soon.

but then Im probably wrong

I want to know how much the spindles cost as it will tell me if its even an avenue worth thinking about, It is stupid to spend $5k upgrading a $1200 machine' s spindle.. at that point you need to be...

I got some of that stuff at Home Depot for the sides and back of my enclosure I just finished this past weekend. I was surprised they stock that stuff, also got 18" acrylic panels for doors hanging...

Glad you found the issue,

now there is a settings to tell the drivers whether to go CW or CCW based on direction (-) or direction (+) its in the Mach3 settings, I dont have a copy here at work...

try swapping around the Cat5 cables, they do go bad on occasion or the pins dont seat properly... just guessing at this point. dont know what else to suggest.

only disconect the (-) not the (+) , well that is the only time I had an issue trying to get them to work,

are you sure you have Mach3 set up properly? there are individual settigns for each axis...

Whn I was hooking up my drivers, I had connected the step enable and step a and direction all sharing a ground to the BOB, then I read somewhere that sometimes the ground being connected to the...

Every time I go to the benchtopprecission website and try to purchase a belt drive kit the website always says "Coming Soon" and has no pricing info or much more information.
How were you able to...

Have you tried just having the enable + on only minus the (-) ? that had mine exhibiting the same behavior. Mine are not that brand or model, but Im sure inside a lot of these are very similar.