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Ugh. Disregard that whole post and question. I am such a dummy. I revised my sketch dimensions the night before. And forgot to redo the cad and upload to mill. Was running wrong g code. Ugh. ...

So. I'm trying to make a bevel plate. .356" thick. 2.250 wide at the widest. A 45* bevel on both sides. Now I make the plate great. Finish is awesome and true. But my bevel width is .050" too...

Hi All, I am milling parts from .250" alum plate. The pieces are spacers of a sort. SO they have inside cutout pieces, and then a whole perimeter outside cut out. I am using a .250 end mills. At...

Thx for the link. That clears it up a lot. Fusion is doing what I want it to do really. I think the issue I'm having is sometimes Homing the axis is not resetting the machine co-ordinates. It...

Yes, Setting to safe retract does work. But what perplexes me is with the G28 move, why does it have a G91, then G90 ? That is the part that is messing up my offset I belive. I do like G28,...

I'm new to Fusion, but had my mill and Mach 3 for many years. Still don't know 1/10tho LOL But I do not use tool offsets, nor do I use work offsets. All manual tool changes.
But Ive noticed...

OK, So I was at 25Khz, Pulses stable all the way to 75Khz, Set Mach to 45Khz and shes now 1.02IPM on a 1IPM move. Things sound better too I think. At 60 it would momentarily pause when switching...

So I run the test with Mach 3 closed, and it says perfect. But Open Mach 3 and run test and says pulses to fast??

Then it goes faster. But the actual feedrate is never what the commanded rate is. And THAT is what bothers me. I'm tired of using the FRO all the time. If I Gcode it for 18IPM, then the tool...

I've always had this issue, But unsure why and never really followed up until now. My feedrate is always slower than what G code posted/ I'll have a F10 ipm for example, and the actual feed will...

I have been using Autocad 2008. Copy I got from a friend, On my TAIG Hobby Mill. Not production scale by no means. Just personal stuff. I have gotten used to Acad, but now with W 8.1 upgrade, it...

Well if runout is higher, than thats a step backwards. I'm trying to get better run out with a resettable holder.

Hmm that might work Graham. Or thread the end, use a drawbar like design with a ER16 collet on the shaft down at the neck. Would always pull the shaft up, against the er16 collet, bottoming it out...

I use water and Glycol. Regular car antifreze. Never had a issue. My mill is also out in a tent shop, freezes in there constantly. I use ATF to lube the ways. at beginning of each day

I have some A2Z end mill holders, and live the tool offsets. Greatly speeded up my work with multiple changes. But I am a little leery of the runout of a setscrew style 3/8" and smaller holders? ...

My mill comp is on its last legs. MoBo issues. And I am having a bear of a time finding a new one with a Parallel port. I have Xylotex drive right now, but will be upgrading to Gecko's. Do these...

And what size power supply? Do I add up all 3 steppers current plus a little bit?

OK, Any difference in the G251X over the 540? I only need 3 axis. I see there cheaper.

I know this is an old post, but I'm fed up with my taig. I have Xylotex 3axis board, Xylotex 267OzIn steppers running (2.8A) full step, 24v regulated power supply and Xylotex Vref is maxed at 2,5A ...

Thx, are these adjustment screws, do they move the body on the mounting shaft, or do they move the stylus?
I found some nice priced Ruby Tipped stylus's on eBay, bought one, now tryng to decide...

You have to center them? is that a tedious job, like trammeling my mill? Thought it was a put in and use kinda deal, just like an endmill?

Any further pictures?? I am really intrigued by all designs. Not sure which way I'll build yet.

if I could get 30IPM cutting, I would, but 12-15 is the max. This is a Taig were talking about too, so regidity isn't up there like the big boys

And I allways cut with Flood cooling, LOTS of...

Thx, normally I use a 2 flt, on the 3rd or 4th from bottom, but my 4 flt is a 6" overal length fro deep pockets, and thats what I am doing 1.5" deep. I chuck the bit up so only the lenght out is...

I've been using Fluid Film. They spray can. WOrks awesome. It's made from fish oils I belive, repels water well. I use a waterbased antifreze style coolant. My shop freezes when not in use

Just wondering what you all re using for feeds and speeds on your TAIG's? I'm doing a part right now, doing slot cutting I guess you call it, cutting out the outline. using 4flt 1/4" cutter, 2nd...

I got an email form Dave Kowalczyk himself. he still wants lifetime upgrades for those who purchase the source code. The makers of the windows based do NOT. they want a licence for each. So he's...

Looks intriging. I wonder if buying the DOS TCNC licence will allow to use the windows based one, or will I have to buy again?

Being an Electrician and aspiring machinist, I kind of take offence to that. Some Elec's I wouold agree, but not all. I do everything from building, programming SCADA systems to wiring the...

I just got delivery of a B2227L and am SHOCKED!!! It's WAY more lathe than I thought it would be. I mean, $1100CDN, what can you really buy of quality for that? Ive allready hogged some alumumum...