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Hello, The company I work for has an old IMTA Powermill #600 bridge mill with SELCA controls. The mill functions fine but the spindle motor is for high speed with very little torque. I believe it is...

I'm mainly cutting wood of different types. I think my cutting area is about 33 x 39. I just got done milling 42 .410 holes .575 deep in MDF for a new spoilboard. These are for threaded brass inserts...

Try this link for a nice looking belt system. I also use twin kevlar belts to drive my "y" axis. No problems so far.
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You will probably want to vent the gantry right at the motor. They can get warm sometimes. Your build looks good so far. Look foreward to more updates!

I have an old cnc wood router I built with ideas from this site several years ago. It worked ok till now. I run master5(from art before mach); using stepperworld's sp-3 and little japan servo...

sp-3 is a stepper controller from stepperworld.com . Very low end but they do have some better products.

I swapped the wiring from the sp-3 to the motors. After doing this then z had holding torque and y did not.

Hello, I have a home brew cnc router that worked fine till just recently. The z axis will not move down while running a program. The axis moves with the jog keys ok. I have noticed there is no...

Sorry it took so long to reply. Family reunion time. Thanks for all the good info. I tried several times to generate g-code with ACE with no luck. Dont know why. I remember CamBam from a long time...

I am using turbocad v9.2. Not quite the Autocad capability. Thanks for the trace. I remember reading other posts about inkscape. I downloaded it and will give it a go. Do I just explode the trace...

Hello again. I traced my picture in cad using polyline tool. Joined all lines, exploded twice and saved final as dxf v12. The preview in ACE looks ok but will not convert. I think it is because ACE...

Thanks. Kind of what I had in mind. I've never tried it before. No better way to learn than to jump in.

I hope i'm in the right forum for this question. My wife bought 2 screen doors for the screenroom I built. The corners of the doors have some fretwork on them. Now she has decided she wants this same...

What about an interface between the 3 drives and the paralell port. Does someone make a board for this?

Has anyone heard of an IMS IB462 stepper drive. What would it take to control these for home brew CNC.