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I used to do a lot of engraving with relatively huge file sizes. I used to open the program in a text editor, cut and paste the part I wanted to run in between the opening phrases (set to home, Z up...

Hit the Milltronics site, contact them and see if they will send you the conversational programming manual.

They used to have a download for the control simulator so that you can practice on the...

Open your control box up, and connect a computer monitor to the plug inside there. Basic DB25 monitor connector.

If that solves the problem, find a new monitor that will fit.
If that does not fix...

I own one like yours, and ran one at work for some time.

If your spindle is not retracted above the home position, the tool will not be released. At least the machine at work has a hand drawn...

Take a look at the bearings on the ball screws as well.

We have a Partner 4/Cent V at work that has a bad habit of working loose every now and again.

I used a dial indicator, riding on the end...

$50 for a copy of GibbsCam is just them stealing it and selling a burnt disk to you.

It's good software. Even better when you can call them for support, something that you won't do when you get...

Have you spoken with the folks at Milltronics yet? Their online support has been really first-class.

You have one control upgrad before you go whole hog on a brand new controller.

They still...

The $1850 quote was for an upgrade of a Cent V control to a new computer system, using the original motion control boards.

The Cent V box from the back of the machine has to be sent in and they...

So....

In spite of the benefits of an upgrade, work went cheap and paid someone else to replace the SimDisk on ours.
So, a used refurb, cost us near $4K. Yech. Glad it's not my money. So much...

Might we be so bold as to ask just where "local" is for that local pickup only?

And that you show the side of the key tag that shows the options that are enabled?

Might be helpful, given that...

Hitting the limits on the power supply, as far as I know. My best theory, anyway.

I could be wrong, too. :)

My work machine, a Partner IV, w/CentV, goes flickers, then blacks out, if I push the...

It was probably set up for Cat or BT 40 taper tooling. Big difference, if manually changing the tools, is that the BT uses mostly Metric threads on the pull studs, the Cat, inch size. Cat drive...

Have you tried Milltronics?

I've been dealing with them on the 'work' Partner 4, and they have been very easy to deal with, and cheap, for what they are doing.

Worth a call, IMO.

FWIW, the...

Long story short...

Pulled the SimDisk. Found a crater in the substrate where a trace had popped, between pins 3-4 of chip U12. Looked like a little white chunk of bird poop, until you got in...

Well, I read it as saying you'd look for a conversion prospect.

I wouldn't. I'd be looking for a ready to run cnc lathe. Lots of them around.

Looking at all those decimal places, I'd be...

Alright, I got this going on, exactly http://www.cnczone.com/forums/milltronics/106194-invalid_graphfile_path.html at least the part in bold below.

A:\>call b:\ram\init
Bad command or file name...

IMO the 20K pricetag on the Sturges, does not represent a reasonable buy, no matter where you are shopping to put it, when there are as many good working machines out there that can be had complete,...

I think that was the idea behind the centered-up tool holder. As long as the turning of the holder does not cause the radius of the tool tip to rotate around past it's start point on either side, the...

Check a dealer that carries Bijur stuff.

The oiler on our Partner4 is a Bijur. IIRC the oil restrictors are separate from the check valves.

Felt covers? Try some felt and a pair of scissors,...

Probably have a better chance of getting decent info, over on the Benchtop Mills sub-forum.

You have an e'N'co, this is the e'M'co forum.

Just sayin'. Most of the Enco guys don't bother to...

Hit the books and follow the steps to program the shapes in conversational mode, or get onto a cad/cam program and draw your geometry, and assign tools and cut-paths as required. Then Post Process it...

A pair of scales on the X and Y axiis. Have them on two machines (consecutive serial numbered machines), so not added by the users.

The plugs are present, but nowhere to plug them in to.

Were...

Thanks for that info, jpawelk.

As soon as I get this machine parked more or less at eye level, I'll be doing some poking and prodding. If I cannot get the computer up and running, then I start...

Racking my memory here... Check the settings for clearance distances. There is one that makes the tool retract before anything else happens, and it was my bane for a while on our milling machine with...

Cent V control is PC based. Should be a black case, inside the control electrical box on the back of the machine.

You want to have a look (maybe a picture, too) at the serial number and other...

Me. I'd check the tool change position box, set a safe position, and run (at a positively safe distance) it to see if that was all it needed.

Try just posting the output with the changes, and...

About the only limitation I can really think of, is the need to plan around having a maximum of 5 inches of travel to deal with.

Early on, I found that I was having to stop and re-zero tools after...

Yeah. I'm pretty good with the idea that I'll put a pile of effort into the Cent V control before I give up on it. But I paid out based on the worst case scenario of getting the iron and screws at a...

Any guesses as to the reasons that some cards will work while other won't?

This is a hobby effort. I don't think flying a tech out to the boondocks is in the (visa) cards.

Worst case see's the...

Looking at a cent V control on a Partner 4.

Appears to have a 4 digit serial number, -B control on it. (not able to access it right now).

It has video card 'issues'. May be something simple....