I might be wrong but I thought the speed controllers were Sprint units, it is 240v in and 0-10v for 0-full speed control. If I remember correctly the 0-10v MUST be isolated as there is something about 240v floating on the board. I might be wrong but I think the output is DC. If you have a look at th...

really loving this work. I've never used 4th axis and can't wait to see this in action, I will be bouncing you the questions if i decide to do something like this in the future!

Pete

Just had a thought when I moved house 6yrs ago I discovered 4 holes in the base just under the bed/tray. These it turns out are for putting 2 bars through so 4 folks can lift and carry it, one each corner, that's how it went on the removals wagon. Didn't even bother splitting it for that.

When the guys come to service the Harrison M300 at work they wind the saddle off the end of the bed, I did this too when I was transporting my Boxford TUD, there is a little L shaped bracket on the underside of the TUD bed to stop it being wound off or the tale stock being slid off the end. I just h...

For me too. Not the easiest things to clean out, just have to bite the bullet and get on with it!

Thanks

Pete

HI, I know the answer to the problem BUT am looking for the best way to go about it. One of the microrouters PROs at work has started sticking in Y axis, you can hear it start to loose place with the motor stalling (sounds like when you have put one of the X nuts a thread out). The feed nut has been...

I'm after some advice on what tools people use and feeds/speeds. I don't have the PCB engraver but instead use a microrouter pro with the porter cable motor. A full board ~270x310mm is stuck down with lots of double sided tape to 18mm MDF, left overnight with about 15kg of steel plate on top! Next d...

great stuff!!!

when I was testing the NS board I have to upgrade my Lathe, I just dropped it straight into my Mircorouter, VR did it's erasing flash thing on connection at it worked straight off for the microrouter. so the board just works on what it's told to do, obviously I didn't try rewriting anything for this...

I was looking at your pics again, I don't know if this could give you any issues in the future but you have a mag base DTI on top of a stepper motor, Wonder if the magnet could impact its operation.

Pete

The guys at denford will know best BUT I wonder if you could use a Novamill or microrouter with 4th axis and just rejig the settings within those files to those of the micromill eg speeds and sizes.

Pete

Ahh that will by why I spotted the Air point on your bench! Great to see the ideas coming forth.

if using the same PC to control either machine there is no reason why you can't have a USB number pad and mouse at each machine and plugged in to the PC. I have a normal keyboard and wired mouse at the PC, a number pad at the machine (which has a USB hub so can plug a USB drive in easier than reachi...

We used to have an arm almost identical to that back in the early 90s it was between me and another guy at work but we had the phone on it! I have become a huge fan of danish oil on wood, couple of coats with a roller and a wipe down :) I needed to do a quick shelf and couldn't wait for paint to dry...

Great you have documented this, when I visited Denford the other year they were saying this is the reason they set up the forum, so they could document stuff like this so if customers ran in to issues they could see if it had been solved by others.

Pete

Glad your making progress, love that bench!

Pete

Glad your making progress, love that bench!

Pete

If you go into the machine setup (denny) you can look at the parameters but i'm not sure if there is more to it than that.

Pete

Post up your G code file. Are you doing the design on LatheCAM designer? Which version of machine control are you using? I've done threading using Lathcam as the design package but my control is DOS based. (now have both Quick turn and VR turning but need to convert my control card over, car restora...

This had me wondering as I have the Mircrorouter Pro with a PC motor, I thought the Pro version was OK for alu but not steel. I would have thought putting filter cloth over the vents would have been OK. I use off cuts from the cooker hood filters in the kitchen for the fan filter, sticking them on t...