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I had this same problem with my calmotion unit, get rid of the % sign at start and end of program and try again. Calmotion is very helpful with these situations dont be afraid to call them.

Ive had this machine a few years now and do 90 percent of my programming in mazatrol, on occasion I will use Bobcad if i have any 3d work to do. My frustration is that i cannot toolchange through...

The rear turret is controlled by reed switches. They are located behind the rear turret and are fairly easy to get to. I found that the board the reed switches are mounted on has 2 24 volt inputs...

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My 1990 Mazak m-4 turning center decided to throw me a curve ball today, all of the sudden its skipping over all but 2 of the tools on rear turret. I called Mazak and they were not much...

I just purchased a 1993 Mazak V-515 machining center with mazatrol m32-B control. I upgraded from a smaller Bridgeport boss 9 machine that I retrofitted with a centroid control. I do some rather...

I just purchased a new vertical mill its a Saimp Italian made machine. Looks to be 1960's vintage has nt 50 taper, power feeds all axis's. I believe the knee also has a power feed but its not working...

Thanks for the reply, Ive read through all manuals that I have for it but don't find anything on parameters. I will keep searching. Thanks

1990 Mazak m4 I am trying to turn a very large diameter part on my m4. I cannot get the geared head to stay in first or second gear. I can change it from 3 to 2 or 1 in manual mode but as soon as I...

I wish. This baby cost me near 40k sight unseen with 6000 cutting hours. The pictures taken made it look a little better than it does in person. Anyway after a few weeks of playing with it im...

I just purchased a mazak m4 cnc lathe, Most of my programming knowledge has come from my Bridgeport cnc mill retrofitted with a centroid control. The lathe is supposed to be here by end of week and...

That im not sure I assumed ballnuts, I guess I have some investigating to do. What is the best way to check this?

Well the retrofit is complete. I replaced most of the bridgeport electronics, all but a few contactors and motors and am happy with the outcome. The retrofit was definitely tough but the outcome is...

Hello all.... Im thinking of purchasing a cnc lathe with at least 36" between centers and 9" swing I found a hyundai hit-30s and am not at all familiar with this lathe. IT is 500 miles away and I...

I just purchased a south bend turn-nado 17" with a 10' bed and 10 hp motor. I have some concerns and was wondering if anybody here had any experience with this lathe. When I got it off of the...

I would absolutely purchase linear slides for x and y axis if I were to do it over again. There are many ways you can go when building a new table, I recommend doing as much research as possible to...

I ordered the ajaxcnc kit for boss 9 machines. I will be reusing my motors, power supply, contactors etc. Im not sure what I am going to need but I was told most of electronics would go away. My kit...

I recently ordered a retrofit kit for my r2e4 and am going to get ridd of the stuff I dont need fairly cheap. I am re using the motors, contactors, power supply for sure. The machine fired up fine...

I want to thank everyone for the help, you guys are great. I decided that I have wasted way to much money and time troubleshooting the outdated electronics and I ordered an ajax retrofit. Thanks...

I looked in the fist event log and if I try to jog the x axis to the left and let the drive kick out it shows -x overflow then e stop. The fmdc board that is in there says metric only on it. There...

Thanks for the fast reply im not seeing much in the logs. Today I had a local electronics expert helping me he thought the plugs on the fdmc was were out of order so we moved the upper 3 plugs to the...

Ok I fixed the power problem and replaced the ezio card. Now the crt works fine and the machine boots up like its supposed to. When I enable the drives and try to home the axis the quill travels down...

I purchased a Bridgeport R2E4 series 1 with the Boss 9 operating system. When I bought it it was dead in the water the panel lights would light up but had nothing on the crt. I pulled the crt out and...

I have yet to install the vfd the mill is working great as is. The only thing I am having trouble with now is the spindle brake. The brake is really tight and the machine wont start unless I tap on...

THanks Jon you hit the nail on the head with the 1/8 motor and gearbox setup. We did come up with the same theory that the spindle motor acted like a rotary phase converter to power the power feed...

I am soon going to purchase an athc and am having trouble deciding which way to go. I know torchmate would be best but I dont have that kind of money right now. I have found units for around $500.00...

Thanks for the advise al... Still waiting on my vfd so I can figure out my electrical issues. In the meantime I found a funny noise when the machine was running in high gear kind of a squeak or...

Sorry about the confusion after a little more investigation we found another wire, meaning the x axis motor is wired in 3 phase. We pulled the motor off it is indeed a 3 phase motor, we unhooked it...

Thanks Al I agree on the podge job wiring.... I did find that the x axis motor has a large dent on the side of it and is only rated around .75 amps. So with it drawing that much current maybe the...

Hello everyone I am new to the world of machining and I just purchased a bridgeport mill. It is a 1963 model J head with step pulleys. It has x axis power feed and a shooting star research DRO. I...

The torchmate instructions have been pretty good but have a few flaws. I followed them to a Tee other than a few upgrades that I have added, i found 2 errors. first off the piece of 1" cold roll bar...