Speaking of the devil, an hour ago, I just got sparks flying when a piece of loose wood got caught by the spindle & rub on the collet holder long enough to get ignited...
The spark went as far as my Thien separator...
Consider myself lucky by not burning the shop down...

I looking for a Gecko G203V and Motor 34 HS 9801. New or second hand, Kobus has inspire me (again) to make a 4 axis. This is what I have on my MM and can used it for spare if needed


Can somebody give me good directions on a water cool spindle and drive

Or is somebody planing to import stuff something to South Africa

Are somebody going to import things for there MM. I want to import the following:

Gecko G203V and Motor 34 HS 9801

Francois
082 431 0163 / 012 842 4066

You can try Greg at CNC direct for the Gecko, he does stock them, and he has motors, not sure if they are Motion King units though. http://www.cncdirect.co.za/htm/stepper.html and http://www.cncdirect.co.za/htm/sensor.html

Dovetails
 

Thanks to Alan Wagner for the Dovetail wizard ($29)

Nice. Explain how you go about doing it.

Wow ! this is the best side clamp I ever saw !

More Bleach T-shirts! (With a CNC Router)

http://www.jcopro.net/tag/bleach-t-shirt-project/

Thanks
 

Thanks for posting about my site! Was wondering where the hits were coming from :)

3D Printing
 

Did anyone do research on 3D printing in the past year:

I know here is a post of a year back: http://www.mechmate.com/forums/showt...light=printing

See also Mach 3D add-on - http://cnc2printer3d.wordpress.com/software/

Missing "Configure initial state" in Mach 3
 

Do any body know where I can I find the "Configure Initial state" in Mach 3. I am looking for the button "Shortest rot".

You are looking at an older config screenshot
present one looks like this

http://www.aquickcnc.com/images/tuto...ral-config.jpg

on a new screen you can see a label ROTATIONAL
under it are
-Rot 360 rollover
-Ang short rot on G0
-Rotational soft limits