Just a quick thought for you, this is a hobby machine and as such can, as you have seen, produce some spectacular results. It does however require...

Agreed - succinctly put MMorao. Apparently there is a book available - "CNC-Fräsen für Maker und Modelbauer" aimed at the Stepcraft builder and AVA...

Hi vdh43, Out of curiosity I searched the internet and found this link to the book you mention. Hope this is useful. Peter

Hi, The "super mousetrap" works exceedingly well. I don't have the tools available to accurately measure the sensitivity, but using the UCCNC DRO t...

MMorao wrote: Do you know what really annoys me? Here we are voicing serious concerns about the off-the-shelf product and we don't hear a single wo...

Hi, A question - what motion control have you on your machine, UCCNC/UC100 or something else? Looking at your picture of an engraved board, the...

Hi, You've hit the nail on the head unfortunately!! Get all your "tuning" done without the baseplate fitted, then "adjust" it with block and sa...

Hi, The parameters I use in Eagle 8.1 are :- Default track width - 0.4mm (0.016") Power Vcc & Gnd - 0.6mm (0.024") General clearances - 0...

Do you have access to some very fine watchmakers needle files - you may be able to remove some of the damaged parts of the thread so as to get the nut...

Hi Iab, Silly question, but is the ER11 collet properly mounted in the nut - it should have "clicked" as you pressed it in. You have to get it orie...

Check this link:- I posted a copy of my working M31 macro in that forum - may be of some use to you (I added some comments to help my understandi...

Did you zero the Z axis with the tool just touching the workpiece ??

Hi, Glad you've cured your problem, though I cannot understand how the soft limit change can rectify the symptoms shown so well in your video Th...