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It appears our machine has some autothreading hardware,
namely the last few belt driven rollers, i believe the middle one of the three is for wire feed during rethreading,
as far as i know there is...

hi mdynac
For small batch and prototype runs we do stack a couple of hundred sheets together and wire them out. These still need loading individually into the welding fixture. I am trying to...

I was tasked to run an old type E wire eroder which I managed to do ok-ish.

This sparked an idea and I set about trying to cut thin 0.004" stainless sheet as quick as possible. After tweaking the...

Yes that is my plan. To cut the slot in the hardened slides seperately first. Then rebuild the chuck using a plate on the back face of the chuck to pull the jaws tight against a pin and clock that...

Hi Mark
hehe you must have a pretty ridgid set of slides on that chuck. My chuck is around 1 1/2 yrs old and i`d be lucky to hold .002 - .003" TIR.
But yeah there will be jobs when this key method...

hi NEATman
I appreciate what you`re saying, they way I`m figuring is when you clamp the inner ring back, the bar the jaws are closing on must be clocked concentric with the OD prior to machining the...

Hi Geoff, tnx for your reply.
Yes at this stage it is just an idea, I`m gonna get hold a second hand chuck
and try it out on that. It`s actually very cheap to do.

Firstly strip the chuck.
The...

Save time by not having to hassle with using rings, spiders or dummy pieces of round bar to bore your Soft Jaws.
Simply slide the keys into position, close the chuck, mount and bore the jaws in the...

Being a total macro newb I have been banging my head on this.
I would like to have a macro that turns on Output1 for a given time period and then turns it off again.

Ideally I`d like to be able...

Hi Aaron, yes the motors do make a high pitch locking sound on stall, so I will read up about using dampers. Thanks for that.

I am going to ditch this Stepmaster rubbish, do you know he...

Ok thanks for that Greg.
Could I ask you about CV.
I tried CV with the default values of Distance 180.00 and Feedrate +1.0 but got very rounded corners. I`m not sure what the distance value does,...

yeah Greolt I appologize for that discrepancy, truth is I dont understand this enough.
What I did was calculate the total length of a simple X & Y path of a program and divide this by the actual...

Sorry I should have given more info. The 4V was the figure taken off of the motor specsheet. (see attached pic)

I am using a 24V DC x 14.6 Amp PSU
Stepmaster 4 Axis Driver, I`m not sure what...

I feel like I`m chasing my tail and getting no-where fast.

I am trying to increase my X & Y table speeds. At the moment I think I`m getting around 1500mm per min (60in per min) using a 4V, 2 Amp,...

Try this


M98 P123 L3
M30
O123
G90 G1 X2.0 Y2.0 F400
G1 X0 Y0
M99

After you type M47 hit the enter key to put the cursor on the next blank line, and then save.
I`m not sure why Mach doesn`t show the last line of code but this method works for me. Sometimes I need...

Thanks for your reply NC Cams
I`ll try digest and research what you`ve told me.

I have the 4 Axis Driver Board and am trying to figure out how to use a pin signal via Mach3 to start/stop a Dispensing Valve Driver.
What I`ve done in Mach3 is set pin 16 as an output pin for...

Thank you very much Al
I`ll try digest that and look for the components.

Not too sure what you mean " 3v would come off the top end of the zener and ground"

best regards

So if I asked for some help obtaining the SOP-2B full schematic drawing and how to go about wiring in some limit switches I`d get a result ?

I have bought a Micro-Dispensing valve for a project of mine and I`m finding their Spike and Hold Driver instructions a bit confusing as it refers to two power supplies.
The valve requires a Spike...

AlienCNC and Stepmaster are the same company, just look at the `Contact us` details on AlienCNC website.
When I sent Alien an email asking about the board, all i got was a short one line reply...

nice one. thanks for the tip.

The service tech guy finally fixed it.
He said it was the driven tooling mechanism inside the turret being slightly out radially, so when the turret rotated the `tang` part of the tooling holder...

Thanks a bunch Jon
that could come in handy sometime

hi M-man, Yeah it could quite easily be chips interfering with the sensor. No matter how clean I try keep the tool pockets there always seems to be a few stray chips about.


Going back to
I...

hi xavierdemoura
yes I found the ppm parameter page but I have been asked to wait until the service tech comes back before I try and change it.
Actually the machine has been behaving itself for the...

Yes I found a PMM softkey
It shows the following when pressed :-

Group3/B (this B looks like handwritten beta sign)

System (Series/Version) 88A1 15

hi xavierdemoura :) thanks for the help.

Ok I will look for turret balance,
the turret speed decrease looks like a good option for me as cycle time is not so important here. Please send the...

I appreciate your suggestions, thanks guys

M-man that sounds good, I`ll definately give it a try.. cheers