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I keep the endmills choked up as far as possible, but it's a lightweight mill - an X2 clone... I think it's a fair starter mill (was my first) but pretty limited once you learn what you're doing. I...

This is a manual mill, so feed rate is as slow as I can crank the handles to avoid the mill having a conniption :rolleyes:
My problems seem to start at or around 0.25" end mills. The thing is...

Unfortunately, this is a manual mill so ramping is not very easy (at least, for me) :rolleyes:

It can do 2500rpm... When the chatter starts at higher speeds, it's downright frightening!

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The cutter never clogs - but I'm cutting brass, so maybe that's the difference? I have tried taking small passes as well without much success. In the past, I've tried coming in from the side...

I think I already know the answer to this (mill's too small), but I'm gonna ask and verify... :rolleyes:

I have an X2 mill that works well when I'm doing small cuts with small endmills, but...

This is awsome! I don't think I have the skill/patience to modify one quite that nicely... :o

For me, my first step would be to buy the mill and the CNC conversion would be later. I do...

Thanks for the info. Honestly, that's a little too much $ for my pocketbook - that's why I was hoping somebody here could cool my jets before I bothered to contact the company :rolleyes:
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I found the OneCNC $500 off coupon in my inbox this morning. That makes me wonder just how expensive this is anyway? I realize there are probably different levels/prices, but for 3-axis with...

Really? Why the square column? I guess I can see that a knee mill may be hard to set up the Z axis?

Hmmm... Looking even better for that price! And I like the colors too :rolleyes:

Seriously though, everyone talks about the Rong-Fu clones and I don't see much about this one, even though (in...

I have a question regarding the difference between two types of "benchtop" mills. There are many clones out there, but I chose the Grizzly ones because it was easy to do a cost comparison for the...

Wow! I think I need to take a few classes at my local trade school :rolleyes:

I looked up what a Monoset is - BIG piece of equipment! And you're right about the cost - yikes!

Mark

What is involved in cutting your own endmill profiles? I see lots of expensive equipment used to make precise angles on the cutting edges, but if that's what I'd need, I won't be doing this any time...

Hi Nick :cheers:

Well, if I have any future problems, I now know where to buy new bearings :cool:

Mark

I cut tiny, itsy-bitsy parts with 1/16" end mills (sometimes 3/32") and since I need a nice finish (in brass), I run my Taig at 6,700rpm for the entire process. These parts typically take an hour to...

I'll agree with you - he also sent me an extended demo because I needed to test several thousand lines of code. Anyway, I wound up buying it right away!

Makr

Uh, so do I, and I'm mechanically minded... Isn't it funny how passionate people can be about their CAD/CAM of choice? :)

Anyway, I tried a lot of different apps and although I did like...

I've seen cracked versions of some big ones on sale on warez sites for under fifty bucks! You're right about everything being cracked! But if I had to guess, I'd say that with just a small handful...

I made the mistake of asking for a working demo (my bad) of RhinoCAM - I actually copy/pasted their response in the General CAM/CAD Programming and Design Software forum under "Any RhinoCAM users?"
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Sounds like most people have had bad salesman experiences with BobCAD. I downloaded their demo, only to find (like many others) that you can look, but you can't touch - couldn't generate any gcode...

I have a Harbor Freight 8x12 lathe. This is identical to the 8x14 sold by Lathemaster.com. Well, Lathemaster sells a quick-change toolpost for this lathe that consists of the complete cross-slide...

I've used the propane torch trick - very carefully...
I don't know how they get those on to tightly, but in the future, I'll try a pully extractor...

Mark

Okay - I'll grab it off of my mill PC this afternoon and post it. How should I do this - just post the whole thing as text in a post?

Okay, I'm doing something wrong here...
No matter what speed I configure my pieces to be cut at, Mach 3 seems to default to an absolute feed rate. I've been experimenting with various feed rates,...

Hmmm... I have some - I'll give it a try. For some reason, it had occurred to me that these marks were microscopic grooves that wouldn't just go away with a polish, but maybe a small buffing wheel?

On very small parts, what is a good method to clean up the tooling marks left behind from, say, a flycutter or surface mill? These are cosmetic only. I am wondering about some sort of fine brush on...

Thanks for all of the help - lots of ways to deal with this, huh? :)

Thanks,
Mark

It's just plug-and-play. Xylotex wired it and all you have to do is plug the plugs together. I hope they didn't do it backward?
Is it possible to tell Mach3 to run that axis in reverse?

I posted this in the Xylotex forum, then decided that I was in the wrong place :rolleyes:

So anyway, I have a new Xylotex controller and steppers and I'm running Mach3. The Xylotex setup was...