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Here are pics of my working WS BIOS screens should anyone need.227570227572227574227576227578227580227582

Here's how to replace the RT board battery safely. Requires two batteries in addition to the existing battery. I soldered a pin to the top terminal and two jumpers to an extra battery. A pin for...

I got the impression from other threads on this topic that this would not work and you could not recover the real time board bios using the setup screen. Required some zip file and flash utility I...

AccuMillGuy's recent post got me paranoid about my batteries dying - I have no idea how old they are. So I have two questions:

1) How do you replace the batteries w/o risking losing the factory...

Go to the program display. From there you can edit and ultimately select "Run this Program". You can go to the MDI (Manual Data Input) screen to enter quick Gcodes to execute.

There isn't a way...

It does sound like F1 is non-functioning if you cannot select .0001 speed while in the Jog or handwheel mode (did you try both?). Early during poweron (well before the Quick Start option is...

Yes, press and hold F1 after you press the Align button. Door can be open or closed for this. Is your pendant powering on properly? You should see F1 labeled "Axis Align" and F2 labeled "Mech...

Press and hold the align button on the pendant. X,Y,&Z will slowly move to the limit switch.

Have you checked to make sure the earth ground connection is secure? Does this happen if you touch it *anywhere* (like the metal cabinet)? Or just when you touch the operators station? If properly...

I had the same problem. Was never able to see the Arrow (NT3.51) from the PC (Vista) or vice-versa. However, I have a QNAP network storage drive on the network and for whatever reason the Arrow has...

Don't know about any LED or monitor sw, but you can probe pin9 on p2 in the same input module. Should read 24V when switch is engaged. You can look at pin11 of the same plug for comparison (Y axis).

I ran the translator without setting up any of the paramters and it translated just fine. My code is rather simplistic (mainly just G0,G1,G2,&G3) but it worked. I did run into some minor snags...

Mine came with an autotransformer but the machine wants 240-3ph so I left the transformer out. You only need it if you are coming off 460 or something else like that. The transformer has an...

You will need an air supply, too, to turn it fully on. Without air, you can bring up the operators station but not the machine power.

Sounds like the condition my machine was in when I took possession. Just general flakiness. Wish I could tell you what fixed it, but I essentially removed all the boards in the box, cleaned up all...

I am fitting a vortec cool air blast to my spindle and wanted to connect it to the air manufold inside on the right next to the 4th axis connectors. It looks like this is being fed through a...

I am seeing some USB to floppy emulators on eBay for <$50 and was wondering if anyone has tried one of these. Seems like a nice way to enable USB on an A2100 (although limited to 1.44MB files).

Thanks! Looks like I'm good on the license, then. Now I get to start looking for an an affordable drive.

I recently purchased an Arrow 500 and have been considering installing a 4th axis (or 5th if you count the spindle). All the wiring and connectors are present and in good shape. However, I have no...

Looks like there are two to choose from for your spindle - depending on if yours is grease lubricated (430211) or oil lubricated (430232). See attached pics.

Not sure what you mean by LM guide. ...

Today I tried copying the image to a 4GB compact flash card (CF) in a IDE-to-CF card I bought on eBay for $5. I used the same G4U and filezilla method I listed previously. Works! Machine boots...

Hope it's not taboo to reply to your own post, but I made progress and wanted to document the finding in case it helps someone else.

Last night, I tried the trick of forcing the machine to stay...

Hi,
I am trying to resurrect a 1995 Milacron Arrow 500 (have a thing for old machines). Machine power will not turn on due to "no CR_AXIS_RDY signal." I have traced the signal all the way through...

Just went through this myself so it is fairly fresh. Other options work, but I thought I'd share what worked for me.


Key message, DO NOT allow the HD to be read by a modern OS!

The s/w I...