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Hello me again.
After a long absence due to a wiring problem in my vision I am back into experimenting with my lathe and future three axis machine running on EMC2. After a call out for redundant...

Having had several goes at this over the months (Be year soon) We are thinking that there might be an issue with the motherboard bios and Linux because even though we configure the port correctly and...

Thanks for that Ali
I have fitted such a cable between the Motherboard header and the rear panel aperture aand sure enough the port does drive a foam cutter under Foamworks vsn3 on Windows XP....

OK Pat I just lost my typing. If it gets posted it is incomplete. So:
OK Pat I see where I am loosing the plot. I don't use Mach3 and so a lot of what you write is lost on me. I really only use...

Thanks for that Pat maybe I should explain myself better:
I run a Foam cutter on Foamworks software which uses Windows and outputs via the parallel port. Up until my old IBM desktop died I was...

Sorry I don't know what is a BOB and whether I use the PP on the motherboard or an aftermarket PCI card I have never seen jumpers on it. Like I said the whole caboosh works on a hard drive loaded...

Hello Pat
My problem is that while I detest the way in which Windows runs steppers with an overlay of interrupts and stutters I can look see on what it thinks it is doing with ports etc. However I...

Hello KAT
At risk of exposing the ignorance due to bluntly refusing to become a specialist but instead spreading my mental energy over a wide range of disciplines:
If it it a voltage level problem...

After my old IBM desktops died on me I managed to acquire a couple of Shuttle pc's one of which which will be ideal for fitting inside the under-lathe cupboard (ventilated of course). Unfortunately...

Thanks for that all. I am using X & Z and when I replaced the "I" with a "K" it worked. Unfortunately "EMC terminated with errors"
I have pasted it in but don't think this is the place to get an...

I have been writing basic lathe codes and now wish to use G2, G3 Arc.Maybe I am a bit Dizo but I just can't make Center format arcs (preferred format) work. Can someone explain it in Dummy Language?...

The steppers I have from Hobbycnc are 23-84-DS 84 oz/ins 6Vdc 1.2A 5Ohm.and these work fine. I have some smaller motors remaining from my original earlier experimentation and would like to build a...

I pull DXF files into Cadworks then process them into DAT files which can be made into cut files on foamworks. Foamworks will not work unless both DAT files have the same number of entities/lines. I...

Apparently this question is already on here somewhere but I can't find it. However: I am using Foamworks and whatever I put into the "Kerf" dimention box not much seems to happen. Being stupid I...

Hello Kingpav
We supplied current via devices at the axis but suffered contact variability on account of melted foam on the wire. We reverted to clips until we find a better ssolution. (I know we...

Better than what? You don't say I downloaded Foamworks early last year and again a week ago and it don't look any different. We did have a few problems with it last year but maybe that was caused by...

If you are hell bent on a "spring based" solution why not go down the "Tensator" route. Obviously (Granny) a bit of simple trigonometry will tell you the range of extension required for anything...

I am an avid bizarre RC aeromodeller and have just completed the mechanics of an NC Foamcutter using four steppers, lead screws and Precission ground bar. I am very pleased with the way it looks and...