I love mine, Hood you could build a nice aluminum enclosure instead of the cheap plastic one! I would buy 1!

I made my own pendant a while back that would stand the rigours of my spotlessly clean workshop environment
 Don't use it now as I have found I don't like pendants so I am back to just using the control panels on the machines. I am just building one at the moment for my new mill, here's what I am doing. Stainless IP65 keyboard and trackball, and to the side is an MPG, above the MPG there is an axis selector switch and also a switch that will choose the mode of the MPG (Constant, Step x 0.1mm, Step x 0.05mm, Step x 0.01mm)
On the vertical panel is a 17 inch touch screen and the button panel has a pot for FRO and also one for SRO, an E-Stop and all the normal buttons such as Drawbar release, Spindle Disable, Optional Stop, Computer Start, Programme Start, Feedhold, Stop etc etc.

Hood

Just thought I'd post the setup guide download for the Shuttle Pro 2 as it's on the Plugins download page (just look up under the Artsoft logo in the downloads menu).

http://www.machsupport.com/plugins/ShuttleProInstallation.pdf

Ray, wow, quite a turn around from loving the Shuttle like you used to, eh? I'm still a huge fan of it, especially with the 10 macros now. Albeit, a little awkward to hold but I have kind of big hands and I added a stainless bar/handle to make holding it and picking it up much easier. Absolutely love the jogwheel and I have had no issues with that being glitchy at all, and believe me, as you all know, I would have complained 

Hood, that console looks great-

Dave

I second Daves opinion at the moment. My shuttle pro 2 has worked flawlessly since plugging it in. I do agree that it is a clumsy device and probably never meant to be picked up but now I can move part to tool effortlessly. I also do as Ray suggests with the manual machining. It does make manual machining easy and accurate. Did you use a plugin for the imach or is it a pendant where you used keygrabber? And why arent you using your mini mill? Hood can you see your parts in your machines from where that console will be? Also I saw that probe you built. Solid seems to be a constant around your shop.

Hood can you see your parts in your machines from where that console will be? Also I saw that probe you built. Solid seems to be a constant around your shop.

Yes the control panel is on an arm that swings round and the control can also swivel on the end of the arm. The one I have on the lathe also extends so I can swing it right round the guards and into the work space but I never use it that way so that was a waste of time LOL.

Dont have my camera here today so cant take any pics LOL
Hood

I second Daves opinion at the moment. My shuttle pro 2 has worked flawlessly since plugging it in. I do agree that it is a clumsy device and probably never meant to be picked up but now I can move part to tool effortlessly. I also do as Ray suggests with the manual machining. It does make manual machining easy and accurate. Did you use a plugin for the imach or is it a pendant where you used keygrabber? And why arent you using your mini mill? Hood can you see your parts in your machines from where that console will be? Also I saw that probe you built. Solid seems to be a constant around your shop.

For reasons I do not comprehend, the iMach plug-in works only with the iMach connected to a PP.  It does not work reliably on either SS or Modbus.  So, I tossed the plug-in, and wrote my own driver as a macro pump.  It works perfectly on any interface, and let me modify and expand the functionality.  I posted the macropump on the Yahoo forum, and I believe here, and gave it to VistaCNC, and I believe they make it available to their customers.

Regards,
Ray L.

I am just figuring out how to use a plugin. I spend many hours reading about SS and Mod Bus etc with absolutely no understanding their uses or advantages just yet. I do like the pendant you are using and the price seems very fair.

I'm new to Mach3 and had no idea there were other choices for a pendant. I got the ShuttlePro because I saw one at a friend's house. But then I suppose it might have taken me a long time to learn about the alternatives had I not asked questions about the one I bought. The USB interface works for me as I have only one parallel port. It's tempting to build a custom gizmo, but it quickly becomes a question of whether I want to build tools or use them. Time is short (and getting shorter).