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I often wonder how Tommy is doing, I know the death of his father was hard on him. In spite of IHC shortcomings when I bought my CNC mill, I was happy with my...

Thanks for the kind words: I think you characterized my intent precisely. I have many hours scuba diving: KISS is a critical part of my overall philosophy to life. I am a little unhappy with the...

The power of my new motor provides a night and day difference compared to the original motor. The original motor struggled but worked, the new motor works without any audible signs of struggle. I...

Thanks for heads up. After reading your post I purchased similar motor from Automation Technologies (KL34-180-72 @ 1125 oz/in). I did not like original IH mounting method (load from top but mounted...

I pondered this for a while, came to a realization, and then 'discovered' that I'm behind the times.

CNC machines should be able to compensate for axes that are not orthogonal, lead screws with...

I understand your position. However, my mill was late too. I drove to CT not just because gas was cheap (< $2 at the end of 2008), but also to make sure that I got my mill. My credit card charge...

I drove all the way to CT from TX to pick up my mill back in November of 2008. I met with the whole Spada family, including Geno, and I had a great time. They are great people, but it comes as no...

I replaced the aluminum ball screw nut bracket on the Y-axis with one I machined from cold rolled steel. I measured flex in the original aluminum bracket due to the thin flange on the bracket that...

My gecko err/res pins were wired directly to enc+, and consequently the controllers were ignoring faults. The result in my case was that the Z-axis controller was faulting when the head was on the...

The homing is not quite automatic: emc2 forces you to press the home button in the dialog before you can do anything else. By the way, the emc2 dialog is actually the 'Axis' GUI that interfaces to...

I have been very happy with my IHCNC mill: 3-axis servo controlled, fourth axis (rotary table) stepper controlled. It came with a Windows XP based computer running Mach3 as the CNC controller...

I successfully cut my first part today using emc2. I discovered a few items that I incorporated into the emc configuration files attached to this message. Do not use the earlier configuration files...

Iwill, I think you found it. That is exactly what I was experiencing: on startup my machine coordinates were zeroed out even though I was at my touch off point (15,6,10 in machine coordinates). ...

The NO_FORCE_HOMING only works reliably with large limits if you don't actually want to accurately set the machine coordinates, otherwise the discrepancy between what emc thinks about the position...

I think you may have misunderstood my posting: I don't know the machine coordinates because I touched off, I know the machine coordinates because I homed first (using the home switches), and then I...

I am all in favor of homing the machine, my only issue was being forced to home off the limit switches: that is, to be forced to move the table until I contact the limit switches. In some cases, I...

The config file I provided has a problem with the homing configuration. No biggy, but EMC wants the homing velocity to also specify the direction. So, in the .ini configuration file, the...

I can increase the jog rate to speed up the process of jogging close to home, but what I was really hoping to do was to avoid homing off the switches to set the machine coordinates.

When I start EMC, I would like to be able to set the machine coordinates manually, then g0 to x1 y1 z1 (close to home), and then home off the limit switches so that I don't have to wait some crazy...

Well, setting the head down onto supports on the stand by hand turning the z-axis until I feel resistance tweaks the column back 7 thousandths measured approximately 24" up from the base of the...

I'm considering transferring the weight of the head to the mill stand rather than the column. I could build extensions up from the back two legs of the stand (I have a stand similar to the one IHCNC...

linuxcnc.org has a live CD iso image that you can burn to disk (if you have a cd/dvd burner) and then boot your computer from CD without having to install. You can look around at the software, and...

That stuff put a beast in my belly. Awesome flavor though...

I think I will experiment with both types (pneumatic & dead weight). I'll make sure my bracket design can accommodate either, and...

Hi Dave, greetings from a fellow Texan with an IHCNC mill. Sorry if my posting is a bit off, it is a Saturday night and I discovered "The Kraken" this evening with wonderful results...

I have...

Thanks for provoking me to change my circuit: showing an error for each individual axis is much better.

So...I modified the circuit to allow just one gecko to fault without causing the other...

I successfully converted my turnkey IHCNC mill to use EMC2 running on Linux. Unless I am mistaken, the mill runs smoother now (axis movements are quieter), and the computer it is running on is...

I added a circuit to my turnkey IHCNC mill to connect the Gecko ERR/RES to a parallel port input pin. I had adjusted my Z column too tight, and my Z-Axis controller was faulting but being ignored...

No, you are not mistaken, although I'm not sure HAPPY says enough. I was hoping to get to using my rotary table so that I could respond to your posting with photos of my first rotary table project,...

The web site upgrade it beautiful, in fact, so much so it is a little scary too: the site now looks like the front end for a big corporation, not a family business. Either way though, it indeed...

Thank you for the pointers: I visited both sites and was unable to find a simple solution. Harding no longer offers manual chuck closers, and Royal Products offers lever solutions similar to the...