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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Meccanicca Cortini - Mach3 - C11 BOB - Gecko G213V

« on: September 23, 2013, 12:27:42 AM »

Here is what happened so far...

Machine: Meccanica Cortini C3 with Cortini 2437 controller and Zebotronics driver and motors made back in 86.
I bought the machine 3 years ago and used it in it original setup.
Was a strong and consistant workhorse.



The memory board finally gave up rendering the machine useless for production.
I decided to go with Mach and Gecko with 950oz NEMA34 stepper motors.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Meccanicca Cortini - Mach3 - C11 BOB - Gecko G213V

« on: September 22, 2013, 06:12:33 PM »

Hi,

I've got this nice little mill that I converted to modern controller/driver/stepper setup.
After wiring it all up, everything moves the way it should.

Listen to the stepper motors as the program mills a circle tho, sounds like a car shifting 1,2,3 when acc/decc at the quadrants of the circle.
I can't get friendly with it... the transmission is toothed-belt. Can anybody hear something I should double check on ?

http://youtu.be/7EOwui47Moc

Thanks for any suggestions.

I'll post some more pictures of the setup when I get out of the shop  

Cheers
 Marco

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General Mach Discussion / Re: screen image not always same when loading mach3

« on: September 17, 2013, 04:32:02 PM »

Gottcha !

Thanks Brett !

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General Mach Discussion / screen image not always same when loading mach3

« on: September 17, 2013, 02:54:49 PM »

Hi


I can't seem to access the 'known Bugs' thread from my pc here so i ask :

Sometimes the software starts with the 'gray/red Artsoft' image and most of the time it opens with the 'white background with indexable cutters' image.

I always open with my profile icon

Bug ?
...or something I need to dig deeper ?

thanks