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My material is a Beech 1.25" thick seat. I am currently taking .325 passes with a 7/16 2 Flute straight cutter.at approx 300ipm with a spindle speed of 14k RPM. This beech comes out extremely smooth...

I recently had the spindle drive replaced on my Fanuc 18MA. The new spindle drive that was setup is working great. I have one question tho regarding this drive. When I try a manual spindle RPM...

The Amana single flutes that you've posted are a fine bit for this in my experience. Upcut is fine but you will most likely be forced to run slower than you'd prefer. I have never been able to run...

That's the strangest part imho, I do not get a FLT reading on the Spindle Drive. We have checked the leads and everything seems okay there. He checked the spindle with a Megger and it seems to check...

The spindle won't turn on. It stopped midprogram last week and continued to spin for about 20 minutes. Nothing turned on resistance to stop the spindle and now when we try to power the spindle on, it...

In all honesty, I have no experience with replacing something like this but from what I have been told is that the drive must be programmed with our specific spindle parameters and that this is a...

I called in a local electrician whom has experience with spindles. In his opinion, the spindle drive is shot. The machine was built in 1992 with a 16 HP spindle and a Volkmann 9000. Spindel will...

When jumpered back to the controller, through the only connections we can we get the spindle fault immediately upon machine startup rather than spindle start. PLC Module AIF01A is getting proper...

My spindle will not come on as of yesterday and give an error of possible lack of flow, overheating or fault state. After tracing the wires in the schematics and checking voltage it looks as tho my...

I have been running a Fanuc 18MA as normal with no problems until a couple of hours ago. It stopped mid program and gave me a "Router in feedhold due to fault in spindle 1 circuit. Possible causes:...

I have recently started cutting 16x16.5 inch seats from white oak cutouts slightly larger than the seat. The majority of my cuts are just wide enough to knock the edges off but when I arc around to...

I have recently started cutting 16x16.5 inch seats from white oak cutouts slightly larger than the seat. The majority of my cuts are just wide enough to knock the edges off but when I arc around to...

Certain programs such as BobART will vectorize pictures such as these.

Can you post or send me a list of working G and M Codes? I might have something that will work

Try NCnetlite 7.0 out. My company was using hyperterminal for sometime then this exact problem occurred. I downloaded that program and it worked first try and has worked perfectly ever since. It's...

The columbo is a single tool spindle. I have been setting up my Z0 after each change since tool changes are so rare. I use M03 S16000 to start the spindle currently. The M51 compensation is unknown...

It's a G. Columbo 16hp spindle on a Fanuc 18MA controller. The company that we purchased the router from had told us that due to lack of thrust bearings, plunging was a little tougher on the spindle...

This is actually a very nice spindle 16hp If my memory is correct. It can plunge but the owners feel that it is pushing its limits plunging more than once a sheet. I have it ramping in and doing what...

Sadly, bobcad now tells me that there is no possible way of obtaining a "Common Line" cut on their software. Any software that will still do this on the market these days? Preferrably Freeware....

I have been plunging at an angle to cutdown on stress. We have an airdrill mounted for drilling but sadly I am still new to the CNC Programming game so I haven't yet worked it into a program. I have...

I just upgraded to V26 of BobCAD. Our router spindle does not have thrust bearings so the boss is concerned about our plunging. I cut 24 12.5dia. circles from a 48x96 sheet of plywood daily and am...

The downcut has helped a lot for hold but the amount of cleanup doubles almost matches the program run time. I have checked with Accu-Router, the company that reconditioned/widened our table, it...

Go max depth or passes? The spoil board isn't sealing which I am assuming is partially due to slightly warped ends and the material breathing a bit.

380 V, 28 Amps, 16HP, 11.8kW, Max RPM 18,000, 300Hz.

I have a CNC router with a 60x96 table. It has limited vac holes and two 5HP pumps. I purchased a bundle of about fifty five sheets of 3/4" OSB to run on this to make a 16x16.5 chair seat with a...

It looks as tho particle board and MDF hold well but neither CDX nor OSB can straighten out enough to hold to the spoil board to allow the spoil board to suction to the gaskets.

NCnetlite fixed the problem. I am able to connect and output anything I need using the settings that I used in hyperterminal. Thanks!

I have a 60x96 inch table with limited air holes. There are 8 - .5 inch holes along the y axis in a row and 4 rows approximately 1.5 ft apart. I have gasketed the table off and created a spoil board...

I am fairly new to the programming aspect of cnc's but have found a ton of excellent information at CNC Machinist Cookbook: Software and Information

Thank you both for your advice. I have BobCadCAM with the Preditor Editor that offers a transfer type feature but sadly it will not connect. I am able to capture all data from the machine into .txt...