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Find the nearest microcenter to you. Tell them you want thumb drives. They are huge and cheap, and only a few bucks. Great way to back things up. Sized from 1gb to 256gb!

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Looks great! Will be following this one.

Sweet cam clamp! Quick and easy. Can you do a quick video of it running at one of the higher speeds? Would love to see it!

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I know what you mean. I made my first CNC with an Arduino card and driver shield, then ponied up for a g540 and absolutely love it.

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These look great! Glad you found the issue!

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Interesting. Draw another circle with a dot or small square in the middle so we can see that more plainly.

Do you have backlash comp turned on? Assuming you are using mach3.

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Nicely done! That's the first I've seen the ballpoint pen trick using this spring to account for preload. Wicked sweet.

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I agree! A piece of square tubing on the outside will strengthen those plates right up!

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I bought a g540. I winced at the price. When I hooked it up, it was worth every penny and I can use it for other machines in the future. Just sayin. :) Looking great, I've wanted to build a 4'*4' at...

Looking great!

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The Ethernet smoothstepper with mach seems to be popular for starting with mach3 and upgrading to 4 later. But I haven't looked at ending cnc yet so maybe I am in the wrong boat. I use a parallel...

Hi all,

Designing a 24" x 60" gantry CNC for a specific production purpose. I'd like some ideas based upon the givens below if you have a few moments to respond:


The gantry will be 24" wide...

Hi team. I picked up is cheap pwm off of ebay. The link is below. I also have a working treadmill motor that when I give it 12 old the will turn slowly. I think it's in decent shape. However when I...

Thanks for the info Charlie! We only have the tape drive, so no luck there. I did look into some "Behind the Reader" drives to see if a tape -> RS232 converter would allow it to DNC, but the...

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I really appreciate your digging for those - I've passed the info on to my dad to see if he's interested in wiring the goods to his machine. It somewhat stinks that the controller is only...

Thank you so much for the manual! I'm looking at the pin-outs, and wondering if the machine would even accept DNC if I configured the restof those across my cable from my computer?

Has anyone had...

Hi all,

With the great help of some members of this forum I can now transfer files back and forth to my controller's memory with my computer! Absolutely loving the ability to not have to re-type...

Hi,

Newb here (Father was a machinist). I have a fairly new JMD-15 Mill/Drill. The parts diagram can be seen below.

I have a set of R8 collets that were given to me (used) but are still in...