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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Axis Calibration solution

« on: July 10, 2015, 04:18:11 AM »

Excellent work Chris.

Well done guys for the active teamwork - I look forward to seeing the outcome.

Tweakie.

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Forum suggestions and report forum problems. / Re: Forum for sale ad.

« on: July 10, 2015, 01:51:10 AM »

Does anyone know how  I mark my ad as sold?

It has been done. 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / MOVED: For Sale CNC 3020 and everything needed, practically brand new!

« on: July 10, 2015, 01:42:52 AM »

This topic has been moved to Bargain Basement.

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=30466.0

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

« on: July 02, 2015, 12:10:33 PM »

By the way how beneficial is a mist coolant system if you are milling mostly aluminum,bronze and brass?

Everybody to their own but I find the most important thing when machining any metals is to keep the work clear of the swarf during the machining operation so with machines that cannot handle flood coolant then air, with a small amount of cutting fluid (as a mist spray) is the next best thing.

Tweakie.

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

« on: July 02, 2015, 01:35:28 AM »

Hi kj7u,

Welcome to the forum.

It is best if you post questions as a new topic, however...

To reverse the operation of the X axis you could change the active state of the X axis 'Dir Low Active' in Config / Ports & Pins / Motor Outputs.

There are many to choose from but a very basic, free and easy to use CAD/CAM software is G-Simple http://www.gsimple.eu/

Tweakie.

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

« on: June 30, 2015, 02:00:38 AM »

Hi Guys,

Welcome to the forum.

If you have a specific question it would be best if you post it as a New Topic in the General Section where it will be seen by more people and stand a better chance of a quick reply.
There are many extremely talented and experienced members here so it should not take too long for them to resolve any problems you may be experiencing and get you up and running and making chips 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: USB to Serial

« on: June 20, 2015, 12:45:14 AM »

There are a number of different external motion controllers and this is just one of those available http://www.warp9td.com/

Hope this helps.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: USB to Serial

« on: June 19, 2015, 06:11:53 AM »

I assume that your mill control box was connected to your PC with a 25 way parallel cable and Mach3 configured to use the parallel port. You were not using serial communication.

The USB / Parallel port adapters will not work and as Rich has suggested, you need to either get a PC which has the 25 way parallel port and use the setup as you did before or else purchase an external motion controller to use with either the USB or Ethernet port of your new PC.

Tweakie.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MACH4 Tangential Knife

« on: June 19, 2015, 01:44:21 AM »

Hi Dani,

I really have no idea. 

I decided to take a back seat with regard to using Mach4 and wait a while for everything to get sorted out. This process seems to be taking a lot longer than I had envisaged so I now don't plan on using Mach4, at least within the next year or so.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Motor locks, but no turning.

« on: June 15, 2015, 03:51:53 AM »

There are a number of different 'so-called' TB6560 boards and they each behave slightly differently. Quite honestly, they are hardly worth wasting time over - however, just a few suggestions...

Check that your parallel port output is to the 5 Volt TTL standard as opposed to the 3.3 Volt TTL standard.
Change the Mach3 Active High / Active Low state of the step pins and see if that makes a difference.
Check that the Mach3 keyboard jog buttons are not disabled.
Check your PSU voltage and current availability to the board.
Check that the board's motor drive current DIP switches are set to match your motors.
Use a multi-meter just to re-check that you are connecting your motors correctly  ( A - a / B - b ).

There are many settings within Mach3 that are important for correct operation so it may be wise to read the manual through a couple of times to see if there is anything you have missed.

Tweakie.