denford easiturn

[djc]

OK good news and bad, got the lathe into the shed yesterday
And had a wee fiddle with it problem's with the spindle won't
Run and airchuck openend once then stuck

Your best bet is to download the manual from the Denford forum, and join the forum and ask there. There are people on there from Denford itself who are very helpful as well as others who are using Easiturns with the original controls.

They are far better placed to help you.

If you do decide to remove the control, do so nicely and not with a hammer as you will be able to sell all the parts over there.

[Colin Barron]

I have just purchased a Denford Easiturn, would it be possible to retain the old stepper motors and drives and convert this to mach. What is the benefit of new drives and new stepper motors?
Thanks
Colin

[JAZZCNC]

What is the benefit of new drives and new stepper motors?

Changing motors won't make much difference but the drives could make big difference to how smooth it runs and also less important the speed you'll get. Esp if you use digital drives which I fully recommend you do.

[Paul H]

Hi
I have an eazi turn and have converted it to Mach3 used the original drivers and steppers works just fine, all I used was and interface board to take the printer port to the interface (can be found on E Bay) and connected the outputs to the original stepper drives, the spindle I did replace the spindle drive controller for a Sprint 180v unit and this is now controlled by another Interface completely isolated from the drive and the PC ... not to let out the magic smoke that all electronic components are made with!!
I will post some pics of the guts of my machine if that will help
Best regards
Paul h