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Was able to locally get me some POR15 Silver. I also got the Metal Prep. Will be trying this over the weekend after I sand the heck out of the metal pieces I will be painting.

The guy at the...

I am looking to acquire some 1/2 HP and 1 HP, 3 phase BLDC motors with hall sensors (preferred). Anybody knows where I can get these?

For those who have repainted their Tormach PCNC stand, what kind of paint have you used?

Have heard of epoxy paint, but that is just preposterously expensive ($200.00 for a gallon and that is the...

AHA! Thanks Handlewanker. This is great input! Will definitely give it a try.

Hey man, I am a hobbyist, with no machining education, helping out a friend make some parts. Didn't even occur to me that is how professionals on this realm do it! May give it a try and see if...

Have been trying to find a place where I can buy both of:

1. 90 degrees spot drill AND
2. 82 degrees spot drill

or

1. Drill Tip countersink drill for 6M screws AND
2. Drill Tip countersink...

Reviving this thread. Just switched to PathPilot a few days ago, and am wondering if we have gained insight as to what the hotkeys are. I know I can turn the spindle off with the ESC key, but am...

I eventually found a combination which kind of gave me the results I needed. Don't even remember how I go there so chances are this will haunt me again in a near future. But at the end, it work...

My common sense is not working here so I am hoping somebody can help me acquire the uncommon sense.

I am loading an IGS into the Workpiece folder in the model tab. My reasoning is that this way I...

Well, this is actually a feature that seems to work for me. I would not know which button enables/disables it, if any. But I imagine it may have to do with the selector buttons? Don't even know if...

"Nerve Wrecking" is definitely the right term! Great video and tutorial on how to move a machine of this size and weight class.

About two weeks ago I sold my second PCNC1100 and the new owner...

Yes, I had seen the video and that gave me an idea how to configure SC9. Except that I am still behind on tapping with SC9. On SC7, every single tap I did worked. With SC9 the tap broke right on the...

All right! Glad you solve the problem and the machine is, as you say, "it f'ng works!"

I just watched both videos and do want to point out that on the first I heard an intriguing chimming sound...

When you upgrade to Series III, does Tormach give you a new configuration file for the motors and MACH3? On Tormach's MACH3 the configuration stuff is hidden from the user. I ask out of curiosity as...

I am just curious here. When you say warm up program do you mean a program to warm you up in the world of CNC or to warm up the machine before getting it to work?

When I purchased my CNC machine,...

MD, Thanks for this super valuable info! Man, you should have a blog or something on how to do all of these things. Those are quite the gold nuggets of information!

To report on my problem (and...

Here is what I have tried. This used to work flawlessly on Sprutcam 7. Why, if SC9 is all but improvements, does such a simple task give has given me so many troubles? I guess it is a matter of...

It seems like you have already decided not to go with the ATC. As everybody else has specified prior, the real tool here is the Power Draw Bar. I was without a PDB for about 2 years and I was...

Man, it mega sucks that such a new piece of equipment is not working as it should. Unfortunately, it happens. Here is what I would do after screaming into the heavens for a little bit...

1. Any...

I am about to do a part which requires tapping. I watched the Sprutcam America tutorial and this seems straightforward enough. Except that I am getting the pesky red exclamation mark.

I am not...

I just purchased SC9 from Tormach barely 2 weeks ago. You may want to check directly with them what is the status, but back when I checked, they didn't have SC10 in the outlook yet. I had also seen...

Concepts, thanks for this insight. Makes perfect sense and it helps to envision what are some of the pitfalls. Of course in any manufacturing environment this is all of crucial importance, specially...

So what is the problem if the screw is not polished? Does the plastic sticks to it and causes jams? I imagine the cylinder bore where the screw resides must also be of perfect diameter and polished...

That video has tons of juicy stuff. Here is a paper with some of the equations and the distances in case anybody wants to create their own table top injector.

The Evolution of screw design...

Thanks for this input RonGinger!

To summarize, I was able to find the PMDX-411 USB SmartBOB at PMDX.COM - Products for CNC and motion control applications. It looks really nice and seems like the...

Man, you had me at "This is one of the trickiest..."! I am blown away by this project, not to mention the fact you programmed this by hand. Not that I need such a screw but now that I see it has been...

For all of us ignoramus out there, can the MACH4er's tell us what we would need to upgrade to MACH4 other than the license? I am reading Smooth Stepper, Ethernet, etc. Seems like I need the SW, the...

That seems like an awesome idea! Hope I had seen it 4 years ago. Today, even those two sides are taken. Of course I could reshuffle, but I may need to take some stuff out from the garage. I don't...

MD, I agree SC will contain trillions of configuration parameters. Rest assured I do not plan on learning them all. In fact I wonder if even the programmers know them all!

The thing is that 99% of...

OK, just got my key today, got it started and have to admit this is an UPGRADE! The changes are very nice and make life a little bit easier.

But just as suspected, there is an item which by pure...