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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: New people welcome !! Come in here and introduce your self!

« on: October 08, 2008, 05:06:03 PM »

Hi, My name is Alan, retired from Sydney Australia. I have just done a CNC conversion of a Sieg Super X3 mill. I found the quality of the mill a bit wanting, the Sieg conversion parts did not fit properly as various bolt centres were different. I fitted optical limit switches on Z axis and magnetic reed switches on X and Y axes.  I fitted coolant control with AC solid state switch, a hand held controller was made from a USB Logitech keyboard PCB, tracing out key positions on PCB and wiring them to the pushbuttons. Am runnuing Mach3 software, my hobby is microwave ham radio and want make various mechanical parts. Alan

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: New people welcome !! Come in here and introduce your self!

« on: October 07, 2008, 12:52:43 AM »

Hi, My name is Alan, retired, from Sydney, Australia, I have just finished assembling a Sieg Super X3 with CNC conversion  running on Mach3, I found the X3 a bit short on quality, the reclaimed steel made drilling difficult, some holes did not line up with Sieg CNC conversion centres. I fitted optical limit switches on the Z axis and magnetic reed switches on X and Y axes. I also made a USB hand controller using a Logitech keyboard PCB and wiring the key functions with wirewrap wire to the pushbuttons. Also fitted a coolant pump solid state switch controlled by the software. I used a PCI dual parallel port card instead the motherboard port to connect to the mill so that any user failure would protect the PC. Previously I had let 12 volts get to one pin of the parallel port on the motherboard, this motherboard is now crippled. Alan