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If you're new to the world of 3D printing I wouldn't recommend a delta printer design to start off with. They are difficult to configure and have a lot of gotchas like the print resolution is...

Dave, you have excellent eyes! I'll double check the gaps today. The machine has been taken down and setup several times since that picture but it wouldn't surprise me if it was still incorrect....

Better late than never. I'm setting up EMC2 on another machine and realized I never shared the configuration files. The setup is basic with no switches for limits or home. Hopefully it'll help...

I think most people have an external box for the stepper driver and breakout board and then the parallel cable connects it to the computer. Since you have the stepper driver in the computer itself...

Very nice! If you do any PCB fabrication I'd like to see the results. A small and low cost machine like this could be great for that. Thanks for sharing it!

I should've looked at the date before my previous post. Glad you got a mill! Most of the stepper motor cables I've seen for use on the Taig and similar are 20 AWG, like these.

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I purchased a Taig mill from this outfit and was very satisfied. The "depression special" that includes the collets is a pretty good deal. When I purchased it I made a few posts about it on this...

The G540 requires EPP. Is that the mode the parallel port is set to? There should be an option in the motherboard BIOS to set the port mode.

EDIT: Sorry, just saw you already set the port to EPP...

Looks like a six wire unipolar stepper motor (Google for wiring). For 11 amps the torque doesn't seem that high. If those numbers on the end plate are accurate a stepper driver for the motors might...

Thanks for all the information! Alibre looks great for the price. I was not aware of a CAD tool with those features in that price range. Downloading the demo right now. Cheers!

Its been a very enlightening week. I forgot to get some stuff and have figured out a pipeline to get information from one end to the other. Main thing I forgot was a way to hold the work down to the...

Everything is here now and working. I haven't machined anything yet but setup EMC2 and ran their test program. After lots of tweaking all of the settings seem correct (axis travel and inverts, home...

Ignore my earlier post, I just found this which has more detail and it makes more sense now.

http://www.krupin.net/serendipity/index.php?/archives/52-Novice-guide-to-backlash-adjustment.html

Everything that themedulla said. I think the mill comes directly from Arizona, and the steppers and controller come from New Jersey, so in California the mill comes much sooner than the steppers and...

The mill arrived today. Overall I'm very impressed by the robustness of it and the rigidity! The steppers and G540 arrive early next week from Deepgrove. I don't think the folding table "workbench"...

Thanks for the information and welcoming! I'll be sure to heed the suggestions and I'll check out Mach3 too. Cheers!

This is my first post here. About eight years ago was my first (and only) experience with milling. It was for a school project to make a water cooled computer, and the mill was used for the block...