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I have a Bridgeport Series 1 R2E4 CNC and my "Y" Axis Servo started making noise. I took it apart and every magnet in there is broke and has shifted around. I bought this CNC used last year and took...

I had to have a guy come up and look at my mill. It's a BP R2E4 mill with BOSS 9 Controllers. My "Y" axis was moving really erratic.

The "Y" axis Servo has had some oil in it due to the way the...

I recently bought a used BP R2E4 CNC. I have finally got it up and running. Scary stuff at first as I am not any ways familiar with the BOSS 9 Controllers, and how this darn thing wants to program....

When I stated that I made tools, I designed and made tooling to produce production parts. Dies and fixtures. I was the type that was always more comfortable behind a machine than I was a desk, but I...

It's not hard to grow a SHOP. What would be hard is finding the time to do the work when you got it.
What you need to do is sit down and talk to dad. If you are going to be going into the military,...

Which manual are you looking for and are you wanting to pay or a freebie. Southwestern has all three manuals for $43. Southwestern Industries ProtoTrak Plus Manual - UManuals

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I know that this is probably way too late, but your "Y" axis Parameters in your machine may be off. If you have a manual for the machine, look into recalibrating the axis.

I've done things like this in the past by making a small arbor press die. Here is a quick and dirty sketch. Note that you would need some dowel pins for alignments of the top and bottom form block...

If I may reply about MDF......I was doing some work summer before last in my home garage butting quite a bit of MDF trim. And like many, I did not have a mask on. A few weeks later I developed a...

I am assuming that you are making this out of a piece of thick flat stock. I would take a square piece of stock 9" wide and a little thicker than what is needed. Square the stock up all four sides....

I run a Proto Trak at work and on occasions it will do the same thing. Not every time, but once in a while it gets a mind of it's own

I run a ProtoTrak MX2 on my Alliant mill and I also run a ProtoTrak QuickCell 3 axis. Southwestern Industries programming software leaves some to be desired especially on the 3 axis. The MX2 I have...

I don't know if it has been mention as I did not read thru every response, but with Vista...it does NOT support ANY Hewlett-Packard equipment that has a couple of years on it. So if you have an older...

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Putting a sawblade on that is just asking for trouble. That type of chopsaw is not setup to do that type of work. Just make sure if you do use it that way to remember that it may kick, blade come...

We have three of the ProtoTrak mills. I think they are great and a piece of cake to operate. Nice work!!

It says repeatability is within .001 but you have to rotate it to check to see if it is centered and if not it tells how to adjust it. Just that portion throws a lot of human error into it. For a...

All three basically look like castings. No. 3 may be a stamping but the first two are cast pins then finished. Stamping something like that would really not be feasable. For something like that you...

You can also use Lacquer Stiks which you can smear across the letters and wipe off the excess. They look about like a fat grease pencil. You can get them in art supply stores or places like Grainger.

GTMike....If I may give a little word of advice that may help you out in the future...when plunging down into aluminum you are better off using a two flute endmill all for the fact that a 2 flute is...