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The most important consideration with the tension/compression tapping head is the length of time that it takes the spindle to stop and reverse. If you are drilling through holes you have some...

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Hi, I can send you a picture of the part in the morning. Frank

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We have 200 aluminum boxes that need to have two connector holes enlarged by a hair: this involves a single pass of a 1/4 cutter to shave off approximately .02 inches. We have a CNC machine...

I wish I knew that before I spent a day on this: I'll check it out.

I have someone now making these parts, thanks to everyone who quoted.

I recently purchased one of the tension/compression tapping tools. I couldn't find any programming support for it, so I modified a standard X5 mill posts to provide the tapping function. With the...

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Thanks,
Frank

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I would like a quote on 50 pieces of an aluminum enclosure: this will be a recurring order, and the quantities will increase.
The material is Al 6061, and there are eight 6-32 tapped screw...

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This is nice idea if your intention is to start a tinkering/maker club and make some new friends.

Frank

8K for a series 1? Now that's funny.

I also have a series 1. If your machine, like mine, has already paid for itself 10 times over, and if you're done with it but your friend can still use it, and it's already taking space at your...

This is a useful thread, I am adding this info since I went down the 17mm road based on another thread on this forum from which I misinterpreted the tool's performance.

When I used the 17mm index...

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I had the same problem with the long adapter. I then tried the short one and it was only marginally better. I had to hog out a lot of material for a large job, I tried a number of cutters and...

I'm in the same situation, except that I am replacing the Series 1 VFD with one from Automation Direct: it looks to be a drop-in replacement, except less expensive then the Tormach upgrade.

I...

In my case, putting a small fan on the z-axis stepper amp in the cabinet fixed the issue. If you touch the amp when the problem starts, you may find it is running very hot





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Same machine, same problem. Try wiggling the connector on the z-axis drive ....good for a couple of weeks ... at least for me. The connectors are not locking, and I think over time the machine...

Hi Dertsap,

Thanks for your comment. I realize that I'm looking for someone specific, and realistically I may need to cast a wider net ... I'm just keeping the offer out there.

As for whether...

You really know the US economy is hurting when you can't find someone able to take something for free. :violin:

You raise a good point. Computing power is most valuable when controlling servos because of the control loops (PID plus filtering plus commutation etc.), for controlling step motors it's nice, but...

Hi Tom,

I setup a system where a Mach VBscript triggered a function in a Kflop thread and then needed to know when the Kflop function was completed before it would return from the script. I...

I'm impartial, this is no contest.

Besides being an order of magnitude more powerful, the kflop is made and supported in the US. The caveat here is that you're going to have to learn a little C...

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What is the method to send a signal from a kflop c program to a mach3 vbscript?

Thanks,
Frank

Metal Supermarkets will have 3/4 round bar, and they cut it to length, if that's what you're after.

Hi Tom,

I stand corrected.

Regards,
Frank

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I would like to point out that there is a common bug in a number of the sample C programs that I have scanned through, for example in the program HomeBrushlessSnap4.c, but in some others too....

Mach3 USB I/O is still available.

Hi,

The offer is still available.

Frank

Just to cover all bases, confirm that you haven't recently turned on your network card or some other new program that steals CPU bandwidth and stalls Mach3.

The effect of that will also look...

I have developed a Mach3 plug-in for a USB based I/O board and require field testing of the plug-in.

I would appreciate someone's help from Canada or the US to install and test the operation of...