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Hey Trauba,
Thanks for the interest, but the machine sold quite some time ago.

That's phenomenal rapid speeds. Do you have a build thread on your machine?

Mark,
That's a fantastic decision and I completely understand. I went with a Haas... :)

I'm very familiar with the Fadal market and almost bought one. At the price point you mention, what year...

Mark,
I've given the other interested party two weeks and we haven't been able to make our calendars work. Machine is still available if you're interested.

Thanks,
Josh

Hi Mark,
Yes, it's still available for the moment. An interested party will be looking at it later this week.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,
Josh

Somebody make an offer, this thing's gotta go as a new machine is on it's way!

Thanks Mike, good suggestion. Machine is located in the southwest part of the country, near the Four Corners area in Farmington, New Mexico.

A few more details:

-Includes 9 Tormach end mill...

I have a 2008 Novakon NM-200 S1 for sale, $6000.

-New spindle - September 2015 with about 50 - 60 hours on it
-New Y axis ballscrew - April / May 2015
-New X axis ballscrew - February / March...

If anyone hasn't offered one up, I have an old one with bad bearings. It is from an NM200, but that's the same thing as a Torus Pro, as the TP replacement spindle was a drop-in replacement. Yours...

I've always checked spindle run out at the taper itself. The TTS collet could add some run out as well as the tool holders. You can index the tool holders to help minimize run out pretty...

Yep, what you're seeing is consistent with what I've measured. I have deflection in any direction, but especially when I pull the head down (toward me or the front in Y) or push the head up (or back...

So is there a dedicated XYZ coordinate required for tool changes? Does it use a T# M6 script?

There are a couple of control upgrades available, and this one from Calmotion 527F CNC Control - Calmotion has my interest as I'm looking for a similar machine.

Are you running continuous end to end movement or small start/stop movements? Is it possible that it is servo jitter? Honestly just tossing out ideas as your metrology is way beyond my level of...

Just get a Shars precision ground vice, same as the Glacern precision vice for a lot less money.

My experience with the ESS is that it is absolutely worth the money and miles better than the parallel port option. I couldn't get my rapids above 100 IPM with the parallel port and it would...

It's a brand new belt, and considering it is a timing belt profile (and coming from a professional auto engineering background) it's not improbable at all. It is uni-directional for installation...

Well, I played around with it yesterday and found two things. One, the belts are uni-directional, meaning there is a right way to install them and an upside down way... I had the belt installed...

As far as I know all the NM200 / Torus / Torus Pro machines all use a cogged timing belt setup. Stalker quiet would be fantastic, but I don't know if we'll be able to pull that off with a timing...

Hi John,
Both pulleys are the aluminum units, so I'm ok there. At 1000rpm, it's quiet, at 2000rpm it's about the noise level of a conversation, at 3000rpm it starts getting loud and at 4000rpm I...

Thanks to Novakon and another user here (thank you!) I have a new spindle in place and working so much more smoothly.

One thing I have noticed though is that the new belt is a good bit louder. ...

Hi John,
Thanks for the response, I just sent you an email. It is definitely the older spindle style, but the body of the spindle is 80mm, so the new cartridge should fit. Hopefully you have these...

Thanks Ray, I had already removed the motor and the motor mount, top bearings, etc. Motor spun freely and smooth. I finally got it out, and it took some convincing with a hammer. It's not a...

OK, so the spindle finally died on this old machine. Ran it up to 6k rpm and the motor stalls out after about 20 seconds of running. Tried again at 4k, same thing. When I try to manually turn the...

Looks great! I've developed a very similar design, pretty much the same inspiration from the Fadal VMC 10/15 and DeCaussin's UMC10. Only thing slightly different is additional gusseting on the...

Ingenious! Did you convert the 4th to stepper from handwheel? What electronics are you using with your machine, I'm impressed with how smooth it operates.

Time for linear rail conversion on the X and Y axis... :)

Beautiful work. I've got the hair-brained idea of converting the X and Y axis of my old Novakon NM200 (previous version of the Torus Pro) to linear rails. This is just fuel for the fire.

What...

Beautiful work! What's this about the Fadal VMC, do you have any pics of the work done on that?

Also, any chance you have any spare lathe head castings and spindles?

All the best,
Josh

I recently purchased an ESS to hopefully smooth the movement on my old Novakon mill. The control box has a C11G BOB, and when using the computer parallel port, everything works. When I plug in the...