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Indeed, and the service manual seems pretty comprehensive and freely available. Interesting to see the components are readily available ie nothing...

Yes it would have been nice to find something faulty. I’m going to assume a bit of dirt in the volume pot on the right channel that got dislodge...

Intermittent faults with indeterminate fixes are always a concern, as you can never be certain you've actually identified and corrected the root...

It's only a 1.5kW motor and so once the cutter is clogged with aluminium it turns into a cylinder being pushed through the material as it is not...

Hope you will have a better new year and hopefully your new nee holds up. Best wishes Clive

Merry Christmas everyone and all the best for next year :beer: I was gifted a total right knee replacement in July this year, like the last one,...

It's going to be very dependant on your machine. If you have a low powered spindle, it seems it will stall before snapping. Presumably on such a...

The right answer is obviously to fit the tool changer with a home switch so that Mach3 can properly initialise it when you first start - the only way...

Well, I'm still bemused. If it's the cutter that stalls the spindle then it has to take all the momentum of the spindle to stop it so the...

Cutting 1000 grade thin sheet tend to gum up the cutter. It’s almost pure aluminium. Then it stops cutting and the spindle stalls and the end mill...

Hi John no, if the indexer is in the wrong position, then when I type in the tool number, it goes to the tool it thinks is the one you enter... ...

Not sure of your question, but don't you just type the current tool number into the appropriate DRO?

I'm a bit bemused by this. In my experience of breaking cutters the spindle has never stalled, if it had the cutter might not have broken! The last...

Finally finished. We needed to strip down some of the machine to route the wiring, then it was time to upload all the information to GitHub.

More development, more testing . . .

And depending on your actual needs @NITRAM, you could do yourself a favour (and possibly extend your initial budget) and buy a UK-built CNC machine...

Hi nitram, welcome aboard. I'm actually logging in after quite a long absence from the forum, having built my machine some years ago and now just...