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Carlos, I'm glad you got it sorted out. Mine was about that bad too. I lubed the new bearing with nice Phil Wood high-end waterproof bicycle grease.

Randy

Carlos, I'd suggest looking at the vise again. There is supposed to be a needle bearing on the inner face of the frame. It does sit between two hardened washers, but they are not the same as the...

This might a little off the thrust of the thread, but for the 5" Tormach/Magnum "Mini Mag" vise a rebuild kit including the needle thrust bearing is available from Conquest Industries . At least it...

If I'm not mistaken, I think Strip is talking about moving the whole cabinet, and not just relocating the front panel as many of us have done.

I have also been thinking about relocating the...

I'd suggest as another test, engraving an uppercase T and L. The T will be single, along-axis strokes and the L will be a single along-axes stroke but with a 90-degree turn during the movement. ...

In the meantime, here's a video of a Nomad 883 cutting titanium.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Okx5smW4rRo

:)

Randy (disclaimer: have PCNC 1100 and Nomad 883 but not PCNC 440, above not my...

My own Z-axis motor coupler experience is at http://www.cnczone.com/forums/tormach-personal-cnc-mill/43238-z-axis-problem.html

Randy

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I guess I have been sleeping. Sometime in the past Tormach started drilling a hole in their TTS-measuring surface plate to accomodate the toolholder shank and eliminate the need for the ground...

You are onto something, Don. I think I'd low-pass filter the part by rubbing it with a resiliantly-mounted (i.e. rubber sanding block) piece of abrasive paper. This would tend to remove the...

That's good news on the file output, MFchief and tmarks11. It wasn't like that the last time I checked (2011 or so). But then SW has also recently changed their policy and allowed the last service...

Drag engraver? There would be room for a nice long spring for consistent force with a long stroke.

Randy

SolidWorks student version times out after a year and is not renewable. The last I knew (which is several years ago) Student edition also would not allow STEP or STL output so it wasn't usable with...

I've been running my Series 1 (through the parallel port using Mach 3.043.066 using the Tormach profile and macros) for over a year on a $20 surplus HP t5720 thin client running XP embedded. Not a...

For me, 1.38 loads in less than 3 seconds on XP Pro 64 SP2.

Randy

Wow, thanks for the quick update, Scorch! Import works perfectly on my test files.

Randy

Hey Scorch,

Thank you for the option to scale DXF to 100%. That is a great help. The second part of the request I have is to place the 0,0 origin based on the actual DXF geometry, rather than...

I'm kinda curious about this too. As of this past weekend I have no more MFM hard drives or ISA expansion cards in the house--but I am holding onto the Mac+...

Randy

Mike, I appreciate the offer. I think, though, that I should bite the bullet and buy the 5-pack at $130 through the distributor and it will likely be a lifetime supply. With the large nose radius...

Mike, the lady who answered the phone said they were not set up to sell directly. I got a response from one distributor who said that Rotary Technologies will only sell to them in 5- and 10-packs. ...

This is an ancient thread, but the insert that came with my Rotary Technologies MM200 flycutter is about expired. I have one more indexing to go. But I have not yet found a place that is not a...

Thank you for the reply, Ray. That is encouraging. On another thread, I read that another guy's "spindle motor bearing" noise was actually the shaft-mounted fan being loose. I'll check that first...

A frightening intermittent squealing noise started the other day during a run. The temperature in the garage was close to freezing, and I had run the spindle at minimum speed for a few minutes to...

George, that is what the piece of PVC pipe is for--to put between the spindle and table when the head drops. :)

My shutdown sequence is: put PVC pipe in place, estop, shut down Mach3, shut down...

F5 on the keyboard toggles the spindle on and off. I don't even have a manual switch any more so I always use F5 for "manual" spindle control.

[ctrl-c] toggles the coolant pump, by the way.
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:) My official program-transfer device is the Flexi-Thumb (it's even called that in Windows Explorer). I took a 1GB Kingston thumb drive on which I had accidentally cracked off the connector, opened...

Sorry to necro this reply, but Grey = 8 and White = 9.

Randy

It is a little frustrating that Thomson doesn't sell hole plugs for the 10mm rail, nor rail tape to cover the exposed holes (I've asked them). I'm thinking of trying 2-mil Kapton tape (which I have...

I see what you mean, and also about the dust collector shoe. I guess I'm actually pretty well off there because I know my workpiece will always be a consistent thickness and my depth of cut will...

Wizard, thank you for your reply.


The slides are Thomson AccuMini with 0.03C preloaded trucks. They have both good load and moment capability (though I won't rely on the latter).


That has...