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I'm in the market for a Nardini 1030 lathe.
PM me or email me if you have one for sale. I'll pay cash.

Thanks,
Jim Glass I'm near Chicago

I think a smooth stepper would work fine with your control board. You may want to go with an Ethernet type smooth stepper.
Jim

Jeff;

Not sure about the E stop tripping. You may want to check the Mach3 forum, good help there. Machsupport Forum - Index

I just got an Ethernet smooth stepper working and I used a...

When you go to Mach3 turn you will need to reset all your ports & Pins and create a new setup. You can't set Mach3 for milling then click on Mach3 turn and expect it to work. Don't forget x, y,...

Not sure I understand your question but Mach3 takes care of backlash comp. I recently got an Ethernet smooth stepper working and like it so far
Jim

I think $175 is dirt cheap. You can download it for tryout for FREE which I think is pretty generous. I have been using Mach3 for 4 years now.

Before Mach3 I used Turbocnc and still use...

Most of us know newer computers come without the parallel port. The port many of us use
to control our homebuilt CNC projects. The computer I use to run my CNC Bridgeport is
a Compaq WIN98...

Steve;

You need a Gecko 210 driver board. Open the case and there are jumpers for about 5 combinations from full step to microstep.

I got my Chinese driver board to work by setting switch #3...

Another indexer built.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/jglass/finishedcabinet.jpg

I included a 28VDC power supply in the control cabinet to make it completely self contained. The...

I made a video demonstrating my slip clutch tapping head. It is only the second time I have used the tapping head so it took several attemps to get the clutch set for the tap that was used. Video...

The speeds and feeds for manual machines are the same as CNC so keep that in mind. The load meter on your machine only shows the electrical current used by the spindle motor. The load meter...

I'm was told MSC industrial has them. All you need is $717

Standard Tapping Heads - Tapping Heads & Accessories | MSCDirect.com

I made mine in 5 or 6 hours. Even if I figure my time is...

I made this system 7 years ago and still use it today. This system has a coolant tank with 5 PSI of regulated air pressure. The air pushes coolant out the bottom of the tank. My system uses 2...

Spent a couple of weeks thinking about this. Most of us have seen the floating chuck floating chuckfor lathe tapping. I wanted to make something similar for power tapping small taps in a milling...

The gear teeth are set to 5 degree divisions. Smaller divisions than 5 degrees are not possible with this indexer.

There is an mechanical indexer available that divides down to arc seconds. ...

After seeing another EDM indexer I came up with a similar but different indexer that could be used on a wire EDM or other shop macine. This indexer was made from a piece of scrap stainless I had. ...

So,,,,what is BobCad suite? I'm a V-23 user.

Jim

Best thing you can do is buy a CNC mill with a burned out control then do a retrofit

Lots of old CNC Bridgeports around for scrap prices and some still work.

See my Bridgeport retrofit. The...

Below is a 3 axes mill I built from scratch. It has a 1/2 hp DC motor and metal
cutting capability.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/jglass/CNC%20projects/CNC%20%20Mill%203/MillDone.jpg
...

Ok, the CNC program starts and stops the lathe spindle. At first I had to drill the .030 holes with the lathe spindle running at 1200 RPM. I drilled
ten pieces that way (only .080 deep) then...

Do you mean the lathe spindle or the high speed spindle? The lathe is a Denford CNC lathe and the spindle only runs around 1200 RPM. That is way to slow for an .030" drill. With the high...

have now tested the S5KDD bearings and the Johnson 24VDC, 10,000RPM motor. The motor is very quiet. I was a little disappointed at first. I had to slow the feed rate and depth per step way...

Last week I needed to drill some .030 holes with my Deford lathe. Top speed on my lathe is only about 1200 RPM, much to slow for driling .030 holes.
I was able to program the lathe to Peck drill...

I have heard nothing but good thinks about Tormach.

I have seen them running at the CNC Workshop. They had a Tormach with a
toolchager. There was a medium sized bed mill at the CNC workshop...

Sorry about what happened. I'm surprised this got posted at all. When I tried to post I got all kinds of alarms and errors and ended up shuting down my computer.

Apparently it posted anyway....

Thanks for the interest but there are no prints on my indexer. It was made with ideas in my head and designed as I went. I spent many hours thinking about building the indexer before I started....

The indexer is complete and works quite well. Backlash is very minumal. I used a 30 tooth wormgear and worm purchased on Ebay. I wanted strong gears.
...

I have wanted to build a CNC indexer for a couple of years so I decided to move forward with my 30 tooth wormgear.

First, I bought some gray cast iron from "Durabar" in Woodstock Illinois about 30...

I think it would. It takes a very small amount of air if set up correctly.
Jim

Go to "motor Tuning" and check your distance per step setting.

Jim