Hi Hartmut, My pump is similar to this one. This looks to be a good price, and located in Germany as well!! Only snag is that it can produce an...

Hi DocBrown, Unfortunately no - the base was made more or less freehand from piece of hardwood I happened to have around. It was milled om my mini ...

If making pcb's, use an endmill to flatten and level a suitable area on your spoilboard. I did this on my bespoke vacuum table, and can reliably etch ...

I think what he is referring to is the section "Who is Online" in the screenshot below. Not very high in my list of priorities anyway!!

SFDeeJay wrote: Web gurus: Has anyone noticed that when logged in, you may (or may not) be listed as online I think that what SFDeeJay is trying...

Hi SpydaTuSefen, Surprised you want to cut FR4 underwater. I've milled quite a few circuit boards and find that the standard HF dust extractor sys...

Stepper motors exhibit some strange behavior if one tries to drive them fast with no load. They exhibit a resonance which is normally damped by a dri...

Hi Sc420user, Much appreciate your feedback on aluminium cutting - gives me a proven starting point for another attempt. Interesting that you used...

Hi, Interested to see you have milled an aluminium part successfully. I had a disaster on my first attempt and broke the cutter when everything ja...

As far as I am aware WinPC-CNC doesn't run Gcode directly, whereas UCCNC does - in the forma of a readable and editable text file. UCCNC is really ...

The most important thing is to know when to stop tweaking the machine and actually make something. In the early days I spent ages tweaking to the poin...

The assembly instructions are unfortunately devoid of any guidance on how to ensure the spindle ends up perpendicular to the baseplate. Placement of t...

This could be a particular problem when mounting the X and Z stepper motors - if the motor axis is not in line with the lead-screw this could put exce...

Toby, So it's recovered overnight - sounds as though you haven't a fried IC on the control board after all. Possibly a bad soldered joint that op...