hi, my name is brad. i have been a machinist about 13 yrs and have worked in a lot of different shops. i am located in west georgia ( u.s. ) i am currently working in a 5 axis shop that is getting into the aerospace industry. i aquired a supermax ycm40 cnc knee mill almost two yrs ago. it hasnt ran very much. the controller keeps going out so we have decided to convert it to mach 3. i have ordered 3 dugong drives and a breakout board. i am hoping that figuring out how to hook everything up and tune it all in wont be too hard. the goal is to find customers and work. i really want to be self employed asap. we use cad/cam that a friend of mine has until we can buy our own. so our work envelope is around 25 x 16 x 5. but of course the knee allows taller parts to be made. we have made some fairly difficult parts before machine died again. i hope to add an enclosed mill with atc, a lathe, grinder, and eventually a wire edm. also some welding, driill presses, bench grinders, etc. wherever the work i hopefully find leads. any help or advise as far as setting up the machine and mach3, and finding work would be greatly appreciated. my direct email is BrMachineShop@yahoo.com. looking forward to making lots of networking contacts here.