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Hi all,

For what it's worth, I have always found the folks over at BCC to be very helpful and polite. This includes the sales staff as well. I actually live very close to the BCC office and go...

I need to cut gears from plastic on my machine... I have been cutting other parts no problem, now it's time to tackle gears. I am studying gear design and how the different params go into the...

no , never got it going yet

I am going to open it up tonight. it has a phoenix bios and a 3.4 gb hard drive. I don't really care what OS is on it as long as I can drive the cnc with it. I prefer Mach3 since thats what I use...

I just bought an older industrial-style pc to run my machine. I currently have a dell laptop that I move back and forth. This new pc is the vertically mounted rack style with a touch-screen LCD built...

Hi all,

Today I put a speed controller on my router and set the speed as low as it will go. Cutting softer plastic at .08" per pass was easier than ever. I am using a 1/16 solid carbide Onsrud...

So my current method....draw part in simple cad, import into mach with lazycam, generate g-code is less than ideal you would say? Seems I need a bit more HP on the cad side of things to get toolpaths...

Tha sounds great, thanks very much for all of the help. I had one other question: Does the contour only apply to the outer perimeter of a part? What I mean is if I draw a part with cutouts in it,...

Time for me to revist this topic.... I use mach3 to run my DIY machine... I draw 2-D parts to cut in cad program xxxxx and then convert dxf to g-code. It works for my limited purposes so far but it...

Thanks for the info guys. I have to look around and get some more bits! My main purpose for the CNC machine (other than it is just plain interesting and cool!) is to cut out parts for a full-size...

I am trying to cut front control panels for electronic equipment out of 1/8" ABS plastic. Actually, cutting out the panels is working great. I would also like to engrave some text and legends into...

Ok, I got these motors, 6 wire, 28 volts, NEMA 23, .21 amps....

It seems like the voltage is quite high compared to other motors...?

I never thought this would happen to me, but while browsing at a local surplus shop I met a sexy little stepper motor. She was hanging out in a dark, dingy bin with some lesser motors, obvioulsy not...

What is your preferred tool holder for putting 1/8" shanked bits into 1/4" routers? I am pretty much finished with swapping tool mounts from the 1/4 hp router to the Dremel.... need to find a...

Hi All,

The Onsrud bit worked great, cut the material like butter....until I snapped it after cutting one sheet of parts. I wasn't even running a cut, I was clear some stuck chips from it with the...

thanks for all the advice, I ordered 1 of the single flute upcut bits from onsrud, the part number is 63-750. It's 1/16" with a 1/4" shank. Will let you know once I test it.

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I am cutting some 3/16" plastic, I thinks its PVC or ABS... it seems kind of hard for PVC..... When cut with a 2 flute 1/16" end mill the bit ends up getting some buildup and then gets warm enough to...

I am having some success with my diy setup in 2d cuts, I am ready to attempt a simple 3d cut... does anyone have a simple g-code file for cutting a small 3d part of some kind from wood ?

I understand the issue with the 20 tpi threads, in what way is the FET is limiting me? I am out of Delrin, if I decide to swap out the screws for something else, what else can I use to make a nut?...

I have been running my DIY machine now for about 3 weeks, with great success. I have cut some parts using Mach and like what I see so far.

My question regards IPM, etc. I have the FET3 Hobbyist...

Been a while since I posted any pics, attached is a picture of the throttle lever prototype parts I cut out. These are going into my Airbus A320 cockpit simulator. I am planning on buying a Fireball...

X-Y-Z machine, I call it a milling machine. Cutter compensation is what I am looking for I think. I am new at this and would really like to find a way to do it without "enlarging" the drawing...

when you say offsetting the curve do you mean in the drawing, or with a software function?

and no, I don't have a lazycam pro license, but if it were a confirmed feature I would consider getting...

I have a sketch I converted from bmp to dxf, then made a cut file. I guess I would refer to it as a line drawing. The issue is than when cut, the tool path runs along the line, and I want it to cut...

I am using Lazycam to import an image, then want to generate g-code for mach3 mill. When I try to convert the image using spiral or xy/yx, the resulting import is empty, meaning there is only data to...

Yes, I have posted some photos in these forums. It works great!

Quite a nice little machine, the build was very straight forward, and it's a blast to watch it go the first time. I had no previous...

Yeah, it works pretty darn well..... I would have to say that I get lot's of comments from friends on how cool it is. It is mesmorizing to people the first time they watch it go! I did make a few...

Thanks for all of the posts! I am working on an alligator file. When its done I will post.

The hobbyist package came from stepperworld. It works great! It comes with motors, controller, power supply, resistors, and parallel cable. I just gathered parts for the machine from all different...

Thanks for the kind words. The steppers are the ones in the Hobbyist package, which is what I bought. Let me say again the package works great and was easy to setup. Comes with screenshots of setup...