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A friend & I are making good progress making his CAMASTER go. Were very close to having a program to cut my furniture legs that need allmost no sanding. We are both getting more experience with...

Someone did not take heed(nuts)
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Hey ddog,
If Windows is running in the background, it can mess up any software. The trick is getting all the stuff Windows does on it's own shut down. My friend Russ swears by Mach. I like it but my...

More like a 300hp Sparrow(flame2).

I have an 2005 machine with servo's. Check your soft limits. I keep mine off & make sure I'm not going to be anywhere close to the hard limits. At 300ipm, you have to be at the top end of the max...

:wave:A year or so ago my friend Russ bought an unfinished Widgitmaster prototype. He finished it & has been using it. I have to say the craftmanship of your work is exceptional. I owed him a few...

(nuts)
Thanks to Russ we found all (2) my wiring mistakes(chair), which I would have never found by myself. It's really good to have really smart friends. We were able to bench run the motors & they...

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Well we switched to mach turned on the charge pump and corrected one other wiring issue & it ran like a stripped butt ape

:withstupi Ah ha! Upon reading the mini I/O manual for the 10th time & your suggestion, I think yor onto something. The bob has a charge pump that must be driven with mach or removed & jumpered. We...

I bought a CandCNC Mini I/O BOB about a year ago and am just getting around to using it. Today, my friend who designs & builds electronics simulators attemted to smoke test the bob connected to a...

use a hss reamer. $8 from enco

ddog,
Keep after it. You'll find that gremlin.

Ddog
Just a little too far for a visit. I'm in Pensacola, FL. I'll help from here as best I can. I talked to a friend who is a wizard with electronics, he thinks it's a short, loose/broken wire,...

Ddog,
Any luck finding the z goblin? Where are you located? If your not too far, perhaps I could come by & take a look. Being an owner of basically the same machine, I really want you to get this...

Another thought!
The encoder could be loose on the shaft, but I think that would cause a more permanent problem.

I have a 2006 shop sabre with servos also. No problems so far but I just got it a few weeks ago. I'm not sure what is causing your problem but I would suspect the controller or encoder. Could also be...

Joey,
Here are the links for the suppliers Russ & I have used.
http://www.homeshopcnc.com/index.html
http://www.antekinc.com/
I don't want to post my address & I don't have an email for you....

Servo controller & power supply for Russ's new machine. The servo motors are Nema 34 850oz/in.

Nice job!

We had our first crash yesterday. We were attempting to cut a hole in a piece of .5 plywood @ 600ipm. Not good. Mastercam post for the Shop Sabre did not put in a feed rate for G2. Sooo Wincnc used...

http://www.homecnc.info/cnc-main.html has a good double nut design that could be adapted to acme nuts.

Hello,
My friend & I just bought a 4860 Shop Sabre. I am working on mounting a mini lathe with an extension on it. I am building brackets so the lathe can lay 90 deg. from upright to fit under the...

I'm very impressed with your work. I especially like the last pic in post #10. I've been trying for hours to convert a bitmap file into a 3d with the demo version of Aspire without any success. It...

As Russ & I have not found 10 lb sacks of $100 bills under our Christmas trees this morning, I guess we will have to continue figuring out how to build our own 4th axis for the Shop Sabre. Building...

Thanks Tony
Merry Christmas

Does Aspire have the capability to wrap the carving around a rotary axis? I would like to carve the graphics around my table legs.

Jim,
Emailed the ini file today. Sorry it took so long.
I'm wondering what needs to be done to turn on the 4th axis in WinCNC. It is on in the demo version Kelly sent me but not on the copy running...

I finished all the wiring for the outlet to the VFD from the phase converter today. All the we need to do is change out the breaker to the phase converter to the 100 amp breaker and the 30HP rotary...

From what I have read on servos. You need to stay within +- 5VDC of the rated voltage. If your power supply has a full bridge rectifier, you may be able to change it to a half bridge and get the...

This is my first servo motor project & I have no clue where to set the step pulse multiplier on the G340. I'm running 850 oz/in servo motors with HEDS 500 line encoders. What are the pros & cons of...