Hey there all you cool cats and kittens.
Let's start this off by saying I have had no CNC experience until lockdown. I have had a 2030 engraver in the workshop for years and never touched it. I acquired it in a job lot on eBay, with a PC tower, but it has just been sat there collecting dust. Until now.
As I said I have had no experience and the learning curve has been steep. Figured out how to get the machine running/use Mach3 (after laying out £150 for the updated software), learnt CAM in Fusion, output some Gcode and cut my logo in a piece of ply. Proper well stoked so I was.
My problem now is all of the axis' won't stay calibrated and I have no idea what to do in order to try and fix it. I have been on the Mach support forum but things move at a snail's pace over there so thought I would try my luck here.
So my setup. I have a PC tower running Windows XP. I think it's 32bit and it has a parallel port (I don't know if its 5v but I would assume so as the engraver is covered in wood-dust so must have been running at some point). I have a T-D 3 axis controller with a JP-3163B board set to 1/8 step. The motors on the engraver are 57HD0401-15S.
Please let me know if you need any more information, or pictures, whatever.
Thanks,
Paul