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It’s been a while since i put it back together, but i do remember working my way through the lockup process to figure it out. Glad macTech’s got it figured

Thanks Jim - sounds like a plan - I'll throw it into a mill and skim off a smidgen.

Jay

Hi there,
I have a question - I'm not an experienced operator, but landed myself a Bridgeport Series 2 Interact 2 and just finished retrofitting the machine with an AJAX/Centroid Control. Now I get...

I had a jump on mine, I pulled it out, powered it up, and all worked as expected. Best I can say is see if there's continuity between the two zero posts without the jumper - that will tell you if the...

Hi all, I'm re-assembling the QC30 lock nut after cleaning it up, but I didn't see how the inner spring and pin are positioned. Can someone who has experience steer me right as whats the right...

Thanks! That's what I'll do then

Hi all,
I'm trying to determine what the difference is between using limit switches also as home switches vs using separate home and limit switches on each axle. Tying to figure out what we loose...

I've been doing a lot of reading on the AjaxCNC Tech Support Forum and Ajax Technical Bulletins to figure this out - specifically TB269 (Rev1) - Voltage ratings of DC drives and DC Power Supplies
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I'm going through the same conversion but using AjaxCNC ALLIN1DC drive pack, single phase 240VAC, and a VFD on the spindle. On your transformer picture - it that a 3 phase transformer? - you'll have...

Thanks the design concept was exactly what I needed!

Hi Everyone,
I'm doing an Ajax conversion on my Bridgeport, and want to add a few buttons to the head like in some of the photos on the Ajax site. What I don't know is should I buy NC or NO buttons...

I've only used Alibre and later Solidworks. I had to pay for both out of my pocket and for the cost I should have stayed with Alibre as it's a great package. But I wanted to play with the big boys.....

I'm trying, but still can't shift the border off the icons. I did grab the left pane handle in the middle and shrunk the pane till you could only see a single tab - saw the horizontal scroll bar at...

Has anyone seen or had/have an issue where the side border of Solidworks partially covers the part tree icon? I'm using Solidworks 2009 SP0.0 x64 (out of maintenance) on Windows 7 64bit.

Have a...

I wonder if it's just better to order through Centriod if we can't get in touch with Ajax. I to have left voice mails but no call backs

Jay

Thanks Dick, I took your advise and bought the Bridgeport! I'm excited!

Jay

Hello,
I have an opportunity to purchase either an older Bridgeport Series 2 Interact 2 or a Birmingham B2VS CNC mill. The table envelope is the same (near enough), but the Birmingham tops out at...

Do the Fanuc 0i-MC controllers have a buzzer feature, where we can have a buzzer go off as well as the light on the top of the mill when a run is completed?

Thanks

Jay

Hello,
I'm trying to take the 4th axis unit off my mill for a job so I can put vises across the whole table, but when I unplug the cables to it I receive an error on the Controller, a Fanuc 0i-MC....

Thanks, the Leupold ones are all flat under the head where-as I'm looking for some that are angled under the head, more like an insert screw.

I'm trying that ebay seller now.

Jay

Trying to find where I can buy 6x48 screws with countersunk Torx head, about .35 long.

These are the type normally used holding scope mounts on rifles.

Jay

I just "upgraded" back to XP from Vista, had enough of the stability issues with it. Mastercam seemed to run ok, but my Solidworks 2008 crashed regularly. Check with your laptop vendor, I know most...

The things that scored well for Solidcam where:

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- Tight Integration with SolidWorks (though not as tight as Camworks, but tight enough)
- The ability to do XZCYB on mill/turn,...

That's my understanding as well. No, this was Caledonian out of Edmonton, but they have a Calgary office as well.

So the choice has been made - Mastercam. My equipment hasn't arrived yet so I...

A nice idea at first glance but these systems turn out to be high maintenance. In the windows environment they're called shortcuts, in UNIX they're called links.

If you own Solidworks you should...

Weaston,
There are a lot of good cam programs out there, it starts to make my head spin. If you're doing pure mill work then you need to check out HSMWorks, a relatively new player, they are fully...

Jerry,
I've been kicking this around myself. Current thought coming out of the think tanks is to use a meaningless number to track your parts, rather than an intelligent number. Intelligent...

I've used Alibre for a couple of years, it's a great product. But the day came when I needed more - specifically the COSMOS components. So now I'm working with my vendor to make the transition.

I...

All,
I had a sit down with the MasterCam rep - nice product!, and again solid representation in the local area (roughly 250 customers), complete with local support and a local training center. Also...

dropped
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SolidCam - no multi turret support
Camworks - no multi turret support
EdgeCam - no EDM support