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  1. Re: Need help on hooking step driver to paralle port

    What are you trying to build specifically? Can you give me the machine dimensions? We can give you a better breakdown of what you need and what they do if you can tell us that.
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    Bent screws or something else?

    Hello all,

    I am getting a crazy amount of deflection on my y axis movement. I am running two ball screws setup on the outside of the table to move the gantry (8 ft). I think that the screws are...
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    Mach 3 auto calibration problem

    Hello folks,
    I have just finished building a large gantry style CNC and I am in the middle of calibration. The problem I am having is that because of how I built my table I needed to use two motors...
  4. Still have it?

    Still have it?
  5. Thread: WinCNC

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    Re: WinCNC

    Well I am new at this whole industry and I just bought a used mill that uses WinCNC . Take into consideration that I have no experience with any other type of control software. That being said the...
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    Re: Collets keep running into material

    Im narrowing it down I think. I think I need to reset/re-calibrate the spoil board factor. Now when trying to set z down to barely touch the spoil board it hits its soft low limit with about a half...
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    Collets keep running into material

    Hello everyone,

    Im not sure if this is a wincnc/auto tool measure issue or me not creating proper toolpaths in aspire.

    What is happening is that when milling, the mill is going deeper than it...
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    Need help with some machine settings

    Hello everyone, its time for another newb question. I am currently trying out Desk Proto and its asking me some setup questions about the machine. In the attached picture do you think its asking...
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    Re: Spindle wont change rpm

    woohoo i figured it out, and boy do i feel silly. So on the inverter controller the p/u and ext were lit up simultaneously which is a function that allows the use of external controls (like wincnc)...
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    Re: Spindle wont change rpm

    Ok i think i have it narrowed down to either a weird configuration in WinCNC or a bad daughter card. When i run winCnC and start the spindle with m3 and adjust the speed to like 10000 and measure the...
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    Re: Spindle wont change rpm

    Hmm so I have another theory that might work. Currently the cable that powers the speed has three wires 2,5,10 I am wondering if one of them got mixed up so i have checked to see which number...
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    Re: Spindle wont change rpm

    hub, is there a settings file for the inverter that you could share with me. My gut is telling me that I have some part of the program or setting in the inverter that is messing things up. In reading...
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    Re: Spindle wont change rpm

    Yep thats how i have it wired.
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    Re: Spindle wont change rpm

    Thanks Ken, I appreciate it. I believe that the speed control is installed, because it has the slider in the WinCNC gui, but I will double check it. Thanks for the insight.
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    Re: Spindle wont change rpm

    Thanks for the quick response. I certainly hope I have it wired correctly. I have attached some pics. One thing i am not sure of was a oj and black wire that are not connected, and could not find...
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    Spindle wont change rpm

    Hello everyone, I just purchased a used shopsabre and got it installed this week. I am new to this whole thing so please bare with my greenhorn questions. I am running the 4896 with 10 atc and a HSD...
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