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Thank you! I tried several times but could not get it
correct.
Thanks again.
olf20 / Bob

I just wanted to post about my 25 year old 1220.
It has been a great machine. I never used the mill attachment
after trying it a few times.
Over the years I have gotten more tooling as the need...

I just wanted to post about my 25 year old 1220.
It has been a great machine. I never used the mill attachment
after trying it a few times.
Over the years I have gotten more tooling as the need...

Here is a picture of a knee mill Z conversion.
Hood over a Mach3 forum sent me several pictures
of his conversion. I hope to do mine some day, but
so far I get along using the rack and pinion....

I converted my bridge port clone to cnc about two years ago.
I did not know nothing about anything. I contacted Rick at homeshopcnc.com.
He was very helpful.

That being said I used the 1200 oz...

Nice setup!!!
Did you purchase your rotary table with a motor or did you
put it together???
What software are you using for 4 axis, or are you coding by
hand??
I'm getting my 4th axis ready....

Thanks for the reply Gerry.
I was pretty sure that you could not disconnect the power
to the gecko drives / motors.
What does the industry do to ensure a quick and immediate
stop without removing...

Hi all, hope everyone is doing well!!
On another forum there is some discussion concerning Estops

It has been said that a Estop should stop all movement as quickly
and safely as possible.

If...

I have one also. Mine does the same thing. I very seldom use it. Hope someone had come up with a cool idea to fix.
olf20

Hi Mike
How is the project going?? Do you have anything going on a standalone driver running?
Thanks for any help!!
olf20 / Bob

Thanks vladdy! Some how I missed that in the instructions.
I will give that a try and see if it improves the motor noise.
Thanks again!
olf20

Hi all, hope everyone is doing well.
I'm running three G201's with 1200 ozin steppers on my X and Y axis.
This setup is on a converted Bridge Port look alike. I have read as much
information as I...

I have not decided yet! Been trying to find something that would work stand alone, then proceed. Basically I need to run a arm back and forth with the ability to vary the speed and also the degrees...

Thanks for the reply pminmo! No Computer. The enviroment is wet and very
undesirable. Yes I need to vary the speed via pot, forward / reverse, and stop start.
Thanks again for any help!
olf20

Hi all, hope everyone is doing well!
I have been looking for sometime now for a standalone stepper driver.
I have a need for some Ag equipment to be able to drive a stepper, and reverse it.
I...

Hi all. The simple answer is yes. I have used this guys stuff on some other
installations. He is very knowledgeable!!
http://www.andersonconverters.com/
olf20

When building my setup / power supply, I used the information at Gecko, and Bob Cambel's web site. Both of them together gave me more than enough knowledge. After I decided on what I was going to...

Hi all!
I have a 9 x 42 Atlas (Bridgeport look alike) knee mill.
The X axis front way cover has gone bad.
Where is a good place to purchase these?
Thanks in advance for any help!!
olf20

Hi all!
We recently converted a Atlas Knee mill to CNC. We also ran into the problem of needing higher RPM's for our wood work. We simply mounted a Router motor on the Z spindle. It takes less than...

Hi Skinnj1
I'm just completing a Atlas 9 x 42 knee mill converison. I built everything from the ground up. I used steppers with gecko 201 drives. On my X & Y axis I'm driving with a 1:1 timing belt....

I think I will be using Mach3, but I have done all my testing so far with Master5 and I just thought I would finish my testing.
Thanks for the replys
olf20

Hi, all
I have downloaded Master5 on my Win98 computer. I now have a Winxp
computer and want to download Master5 via the FTP download.
My question is when I go to the FTP site a logon window pops...