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Can you tell us a little about the construction. It looks like a foam wing? Is the body fiberglass?

Bobby

I ordered the box recommended on their site, but man is it going to be tight for my components. I wish I had ordered the complete system from HobbyCNC, since I think it includes plans for drilling...

I think I have it. I did not connect diagonally. I thought the ~ was a negative sign. So I should connect to the ~ and the corner diagonal to that?

Thanks,
Bobby

What did I do wrong? I hooked the ac input to the 2 posts not marked with the positive and negative. As soon as I applied power I got the magic smoke.

I'm using a 28v toroidal transformer and a...

diarmaid,
Great minds must think alike. I was at the kitchen table soldering my kit together yesterday. It went together without a problem. I thought I had a cable, but it was a null modem...

Parallel to usb http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812156012

If you are wanting to open a source file for VB, any text editor can open it.

Bobby

That's the one and the shipping is brutal.

Thanks for the advice.

What do you think about these steppers? STEPPER MOTOR SLO-SYN MOTOR M092-FD-8109 Are they a good buy at $30 bucks?

http://www.electrosales.com/warner/slosyn/m09.htm

Bobby

I have run some older programs on XP with a program call DosBox. It emulates the old dos environment on XP.

Bobby

That's is an XP command processor. You must type "command" to get the dos command processor and it is still there.

Bobby

Looks good. I like the pipe flanges. I'm in the planning stages for my machine and I think I will use them.

Bobby

Bryan,
Keep posting. The machine is looking good.

Bobby

The shaft size is .250, but the ACME rod is .50, so the coupler allows you to join them.