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honestly i made a mistake as i was glossing over your reply . i thought you said haas in general are the standard to compare to and not mini mill itself .
Once running into the higher prices then...

I wouldn't call them a standard . they are compared to because they are the lowest cost entry level industrial machines . In a lot of heavy fields they are refereed to as junk . Similarly tormach...

totally understandable . I production run 440's and others in a small 1000 sqf shop with somewhat limited power . A separate line to the shop would have been ideal . Worst case if a mill is shot I...

haas does get a guy on the options but a base super mini with 10k rpm and rigid tapping is 47k and high speed is another $3500 . The 1500 is 43k assembled . I know it's comparing apples to oranges...

nice looking setup and through spindle coolant is a wise option to have added , except I'd have expected cat40 . I hope the do well with them but for the same price a guy can buy a super mini

it's good that you've been able to narrow down the issue , the fact that a 1/8 bit can cause that sort of problem indicated a bigger problem . The 570oz motors have plenty of force with ballscrews...

a 1/8 cutter shouldn't cause those motors to lose steps , the cutter should snap long before that happens

non related anything I've posted here but the work thats gone into this is pretty wild . Maybe a future retirement project just for fun




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I find the connectors on my torus pro drivers break down over time . They'll fry the drivers If i don't change them out every so often . I'm guessing the 1100's get enough power at the drives to do...

the mill seems to be back to normal aside from the need to put it back together . I air cut for a few hours last night and the mill is behaving
The more I think about it the loose connection at...

I don't see it as being an issue from the power company because this has been over a week and the other mills have been running without a hiccup . This mill and another have been running off the same...

the 570 motors are capable of a fair amount of force and unless your taking seriously heavy cuts then I doubt the problem is your motor.
I suggest plunging your bit into some scrap at the start...

the mx has 3 drivers and a top board that they connect to . The top board works as a breakout board ,, this is the one that keeps blowing .
I could gut the mill and add all new drivers and all that...

that was pretty short lived . Blown up again . Time to start tracing wires .
I checked the surface mount fuses on the other boards and they are good , so it's a bit deeper of an issue that keeps...

there are a couple surface mounted fuses on the main board of these drivers . I'll have to do some playing around but my guess is that one of them popped . If thats the case then I may be able to...

the pcnc 440's come with leadshine mx3660 stepper drivers

2 blown drivers on one machine over a week sucks . This one tonite is a new driver which ran good for a few days , I heard a pop and that was the end of that run of parts .

I've got a few older...

I missed that , anytime I see cookbook mentioned I gloss over it like a fat kid glosses over a celery stick at the corner store . I wouldn't take his opinion as gospel .

I'd like to know where those percentages come from . Cambam , vectric , meshcam and the likes are no where near the same calibre of mastercam , gibbs or seimens . I don't know how or where they would...

a couple that might be worth looking at are mecsoft visual mill and sprutcam . Both are reasonably priced and functional . I'd lean more towards the mecsoft myself

Mastercam is an exceptional product and I loved working with it in a bigger industry than where I am now . The problem with mastercam is it comes with an exceptional price tag as well . It's...

I honestly find the cad portion of bobcad sucks so all my designing is done in another cad software . Due to a move a while back my old personal email and phone number has changed which makes it...

v groove bearings are an alternative and they work great if set up right . As mentioned previously - by the time you gather up all your components you'd be better off just buying the proper rails ....

they don't usually chip or break on through holes and the material your looking to cut is pretty soft . The retract speed really doesn't matter that much but I'd keep the retract height to a minimum...

interesting . .
ups and all those carriers charge the broker fee here which is merely them filling out the customs declaration forms for the goods being imported so they can be taxed . Through the ...

Curious , in NZ do you pay brokerage fee when shipping in through ups , fedex etc ? I've seen me pay $50 brokerage to bring in a $40 item plus the tax(gst) . Ups tend to charge the highest broker...

similar boat here in Canada when it comes to customs . I've had numerous sellers send products reduced as gifts . Under those circumstances customs always asked what I've purchased and they wanted...

Correct , if a chip falls to the bottom of the hole then there is a very high chance of destroying your carbide bit . hss and cobalt drills are much more forgiving . If they are well designed bits...

materials from a reputable supplier cost the same when buying a hundred feet or a few thousand feet . If your buying direct from a mill then the price will be reduced with the more you buy to a...

funny how some adjustments can make a mill feel like new again . A couple mills have started to produce a bit rougher finish than they should across the y
. Tonite i finally took off the covers...