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Hi
I answer your questions in my build thread
http://www.cnczone.com/forums/vertical-mill-lathe-project-log/12622-cnc-forum-posts.html
You will have to read all my posting about the conversion...

Hi
I answer your questions in my build thread
http://www.cnczone.com/forums/vertical-mill-lathe-project-log/12622-cnc-forum-posts.html
You will have to read all my posting about the conversion...

I just meant to the stops.
Frank

I lubed the ball screws by running the screw to all the way out then filling the hole with grease the plugged the hole and ran the screw into the grease. This forced the grease to work through the...

Yes you are right but I couldn't edit the title
Frank

I didn't have the original control panel I made a new power supply/control panel myself. I used gecko drives, Campbell breakout board and power supply parts form Mouser and Parts Express. The Mach 3...

I was given the option for the old control panel and ISA card for the DOS system. I turned them down to save $200. I was new to CNC when retrofitting my TMC 1000 and learned a lot on CNC Zone. I...

With my vacuum plate and end mill installed the original lower limit is not available anymore so I set the depth of my cut through Mach 3. I made a manual adjustment to a cut and did not have the...

Hi jerry
Your controller is original? If so, sorry can't help you there never had one.
I disconnected that plastic door switch to be able to see my setup better. I am going to use that limit switch...

Hi 44 ECHO
There is also a magnetic switch to make sure the plastic shield is in position.
Frank

Hi Anthony
If you are talking about ball screw apart on the Z to get the spindle off don't. You can take off the spindle motor if you have not done that all ready.
Are you taking about unbolting...

Hi
I know that from v8 to v9 there was a difference.
I read that v10 is going to be faster (from web site)
* New “Fast Views” means complex models are projected to a drawing 4-10 times faster.
*...

Hi Greg
This is a great little setup you made.
Just got my machine going and I will be making one of these, very nice.
Frank

The sensor is optical and all it needs is the shaft it's reading to be 1/2 shinny and 1/2 flat black.
Frank

To take that picture I would have to remove the spindle motor again, sorry but not again. The tach setup is easy and with a tach I just turn the knob and look at the readout no calibration needed.
I...

Hi Gerald
The variable speed control of the 1 hp DC motor is controlled manually by the knob next to the E-stop button. Pushing in the E-stop button will turn off the spindle speed from a...

TMC 1000 + Mach 3

Here is my finished up TMC 1000 and running and am glad it works. Doing something for the first time is the hardest because the outcome is unknown. I am using a T30 ThinkPad with...

I have not been working on my TMC 1000 since my last post. I am keeping the 2 connector and wiring that came on the mill. I bought the matching 15-pin and 9-pin connectors for the back of my control...

This mill uses R8 collets. I also use a 3/4 shank ER-16 collet holder and spring collets. Posting here does not bother me at all.
Frank

I called Prolight and talked with a service technician. He found an old wiring diagram and gave me the color codes over the phone from it. I changed the steppers and added a connector to the wiring...

Hi 44Echo
I was given the option for the old control panel and ISA card for the DOS system. I turned them down to save $200. I am new to CNC in making retrofit and learned a lot, but did not want to...

Hi Ryan
My Light Machine has a aluminum base and factory added 2 inch block so there is more room to mill with a vice on the table. The newer prolight 1000 have a composite base (composite marble I...

I started looking to make a the control panel, soon it will be running the CNC mill and learning how to use it.
Frank

Why try to get old software or interface to run old dos programing if you can find them. Search this site and make a power suppy and add new stepper motors using gecko 202 drives. Use a Campbell...

I grew up around 2 uncles and their Grandfather my Great Grandfather that collected metals and things (packrats). I leaned from my uncle’s about metal scrap yards and buying good materials and...

The control panel I have was an electrical panel box I found in one of the metal scrap yards. In this particular scrap yard I can find good round stock and stainless and aluminum tubing. When I saw...

That'a a good idea. I don't have the room for a CNC plasma cutter either.
Frank

I have a basement shop where I spend all my spare time.
The pictures of my mill and lathe seem out of place here but I'm working on the CNC part.
The CNC mill sits on my workbench opposite the...

Here is my control panel that I am building to use with a Light Machine TMC 1000 posted in Vertical Mill, Lathe Project.
Light Machine TMC 1000 Retrofit
I drilled all the holes for the switches,...

Hi Sam
You must have posted when I was typing.
That Mill is worth it even without the Control panel. Buy it an make your own contorl panel. Use the parts above to make one. I could have bought the...