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I was about to ask you what ever happened with the Turret project. Sounds like if it going back on the lathe you had it there at least once already. You should post some pictures. Mabey you already...

I tore into it today and ended up packing the bearings with fresh grease and it sems to be working fine now. I did talk to the bearing house and they have the bearings in stock. If it acts up again...

It is definately the spindle bearings. I did have a problem last year when I forgot to grease the pulley up above and the the left of the motor.Yesterday I disconnected the timing belt and v belt ...

The lathe almost siezed up today. The bearings are whining. How do I replace the bearings?

JHowelb, so any luck cutting parts yet with LCAM??? It looks from other posts that your making progress.

TJones, I'm using lathe functions, I went into turning tools and current settings then posting and subprograms output was already unchecked.

The One, I have selected , separate moves, and Canned cycles and both ways I get code that is missing any shallower cuts. What do you mean by the sub program needs to be off. Can you clearify, where...

I have called tech support 3 times today and within 20 minutes they called me back each time to help. I'm still not getting what I need but they have got me closer each time. Now I think the problem...

I read somewhere this week about a problem in the post processor for mach 3 in v22 for the lathe. In line 249 it is in radius rather than diameter So even though I have Bob cad set in Diameter mode I...

jhowelb, Thanks again, I changed my material display color to a nice green that I can see real well. Thanks

Jhowelb, thanks for your willingness to help out. Sometimes the simplest questions in the lathe functions seem to have slow or no answers. Here is one, in the material display in Mach 3 is there a...

have you found any tutorials on how to use the turning portion? If not and you know how, how about making a tutorial so the rest of us can learn.:wave:

Doesn't work for me I downloaded it and It has never opened and ran. Just keep getting error code. Jhowelb, can you tell me more about lazycam success.

Bob-Cad v22 lathe, I'm trying to run it on a laptop that has Vista home premium. I'm getting the idea that it's buggy on the vista OS. I have xp pro at the shop, but i'm only there part of the time....

I can share your frustration, every file I've loaded into lazy cam and tried to generate code for has distorted my part something horrible. I have the paid series of L cam too. The tool paths criss...

I did generate he toolpaths thats why I don't understand why it didn't post code. I will try it again today. mabey it will smile upon me today.

I'm still learning a lot everyday, I'm confused about whether I have things set up correctly to post code. I have Bob-Cad v22 Lathe. I can take a dxf file and go to the cam tree and punch in all the...

We packed mine up a flight of stairs, we got 4 of us on it, and it wasn't bad at all. Seems it would be a lot easier to find some people to help you than to disasemble the lathe.

Well don't any of you pros laugh, but I was pretty proud that I actually could generate some code to cut this part. I generated it in mach 3 wizards and couldn't have done it except for Journeymans...

Well heck just when ya think you might be up and running!!!! We had our new switch that was overnighted fail. The dang red safety switch glued on the inside and the glue bond broke. I used some...

Okay have the lathe working, just need to get it set up for the long haul. We had the quick change tool post arrive today from little machine shop. I guess I'm in bad need of that adapter plate you...

I wish I was humming along, seems like The training videos are geared almost solely to milling operations. I bought the software to draw parts for the Lathe. I also am having lock up issues. I'll be...

I may be wrong but I don't think the demo version of LCam will generate G code.

Okay I'm sure we set it up the way you described. The only place left to plug in the spindle encoder was that Y axis port, on the control unit. When we got into mach3 I couldn't get the reset deal...

Well we got the machine but there were no instuctions on how to put it together. I got the stepper motors on I'm just wondering now about where the spindle encoder and the other limit switches are...

Mine has arrived! I got home from work yesterday and there it was. I'm at work now trying to watch the videos, but after playing santa all night I can't seem to stay awake while watching them ha ha.

I also ordered V22 thursday the 13th. Mine hasn't showed up yet. What is the normal shipping time? I thought the web meeting was helpful too. I can't wait for mine to get here, so I can watch the cd...

well I pulled the trigger and purchased Bob Cad lathe. I have never done any CNC but have a Syil C-6 on the way. I hope the learning cd rom that I also purchased from Bob Cad helps clear up enough to...

where can I go online to look for some good tooling for my new c-6 lathe ?

I need to do some boring with this setup on cast acrylic rod. Will a boring bar on a quick change tool post work out well. Also is the repeatability good with the quick change tool post good once you...