Hello from Derry!

[KevinC]

Hi Clive,

It sure is nice to get such a warm reception and a gracious offer of assistance, thank you very much.

I have been on a few forums in my day so I'm sure I will get on just fine!

The only thing resembling branding on this is the 6040 name from the eBay listing.

The specs are as follows;

• Effective working travel: 580(X)mm*400(Y)mm*65(Z)mm
• Frame materials: 6061 aluminum alloy + 6063 Industrial aluminum
• Driving units X,Y&Z: 1605 ball screws
• Sliding units Y axis: Dia.20mm chrome plate shafts
• Sliding units Z axis: Dia.13mm chrome plate shafts
• Stepping motor type: 57 two-phase 3A ,super-low noise ,NEW
• Spindle motor: 800W water cooling VFD spindle, 24000RPM
• Principal axis collet: ER11/3.175 collet
• Spindle speed: 24000rpm/min (PWM stepless speed regulation)
• Control unit: Triaxial one-piece drive + ring variable power + PWM speed
• Control unit: Toroidal transformer + PWM psu module + TB6560 drive board
• Control Software: Mach 3

I have the 4-Axis Model but I intend to use only 3 most of the time so I haven't experimented with the 4th yet.
At the minute I'm using Mach3 and PyCam and Adobe Illustrator.

Thanks again,

Kevin.

Kevin Welcome to the forum. Get ready for a bit of flack but take it all with a pinch of salt they are a good bunch on here and very willing to help.
Can you post a spec of your machine ie has it been built with ball screws and what spindle does it have and what software are you running etc. as that would help to track down any faults . 20mm/min is very slow for wood. ..Clive