Originally Posted by
mountaindew
Couple quick pointers for anyone setting one of these machines up.
Tool setup
The directions for setting the tool offsets in the manual does not work as explained. The directions are repeated a number of times in 2 different manuals and had me scratching my head for a couple hours.
It states a number of times to take skim cut, measure and enter this as a negative value and then select the touch x button. Not clear to me why this is explained so clearly in so many places to use a negative value for the front tool post holder and it does not work that way! It requires just the diameter value only, no negative sign!
A negative sign moves the entire part center off x-center by that amount and will not work correctly.