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agreed Ralph, I think that was just to see who was awake out there. Me ….. I do a lot of thinking before getting to the stage of making. It’s my time when I have to wait a few minutes or more or

I joined the group to see if it could generate some interest in me doing CNC and CAD. I am a retired ET with more than 36 years of electronics background. I put together an all manual machine shop

re: 30 days of no posts even hello will drop you out. John, are you sure about that? I have had a long stretch of no post in all of the forums I subscribe to and have not been dropped out of any of

Sorry to disagree with? the last various past posts, and may I be pertinent to say they are excuses not to start a project and finish with it. Call it perfection, or call it procrastination.it's all

Hi, George, I also have a long list of items that I plan to do, but they get finished only slowly due to a combination of my perfectionism and procrastination. I have to find some young bucks with

Hi Charlie, The reason it took me so little time was that I left the internal gears alone. I moved the speed selection lever to a midpoint which disengages them. The acrylic guard I received is milky

Prasad, Congratulations! I can't do ANYTHING in 30 minutes. I didn't realize that the installation was so simple. When I did the belt drive modification to my Real Bull mill, I got a kit from the

One other thing I would add to Jerry's suggestions. Stay away from dedicated full CNC hardware solutions. Once in you are 'in'. Setting up a separate break out board with individual drivers allows

Tamra, Sounds like you are ok with the CAD portion of the CAD/CAM puzzle. I mentioned in a previous message not to let the Linux part of LinuxCNC get in the way. Once setup, you can treat it as a

Hello Bill and Tamra and all other forum members. Many thanks for posting and all interesting to read different points of view reference the CNC fors and againsts. If I can refer you all back to a

Taig and Sherline both make CNC-capable mills, but they're a great deal smaller than even the SIEG mini-mills. The HF mini-mill and its clones weigh about 125lbs. The Sherline, IIRC, is about 25, and

https://taigtools.com/product/micro-mill-2019cnc/ I think this is a reasonable cost.? There are CNC kits to convert other (desktop) mills to CNC. The advantage of saving money and stepping in? to

Kinda depends on which bank you're talking about, doesn't it? ;) https://www.minitech.com/msrp-price-list-2021.html#/ These folks want $12.5K for the base machine, without spindle or controller.

Are there any decent CNC capable mini-mills that won't break the bank? I'm pretty sure I'm not willing to spend the time learning how to convert a standard mill, some of you guys have really amazed

You are correct about being busy Charlie. I haven't done much of anything workshop related in quite some time. I had good intentions of rebuilding my printer per John's plans in DM but it's still

I just finished the belt drive. After plenty of thinking on the project of making it using Jerry's drawings, I decided that it was easier to buy the kit from LMS which was on sale last week. It was an

The only thing I run on my LinuxCNC computers is LinuxCNC and maybe a web browser if I need to look something up. I started out sharing a computer for my router, lathe, and mill, but now I use a

Charlie, the EazyCNC <http://www.eazycnc.com/welcome/welcome.php> I want to use got my interest in an article in the Digital Machinist magazine Volume 15 NO.1 Spring 2020. It is nice to be able to

Thank you all for your complete and thorough replies! I see that I have a lot of research to do before settling on what I will ultimately use. -- Regards, Charlie New Jersey, USA *SATTINGER’S LAW:

Hi Jerry Thanks for the post, all very interesting. I use Mastercam V8.01 and is about 25 years old. it can only run on Windows 7 32 bit. If you want to purchase Mastercam Ver 13 ??? The latest, try