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Unrelated but there is now knockoff energy chain on Amazon for about $10 for 3'.

I just wanted to take a moment to say if you are currently using or even thinking of using cnc tapering that you should look no further than Kelly's Cue Cut program. Well thought out program and awesome guy to deal with!

I have enough height on my router mount to be able to cut from the top but it is fixed and not movable like a z axis. My whole objective is to not have to adjust the router position between cutting tapers and ring slots and that is why I was planning on cutting them with a slot cutter. I have a...

If I use end mills I will have to rotate the router. I have slot cutters but 1/16 is the thinnest that I could find. Stratshutr, I do have a stepper on the head . I may have used the wrong terminology but my machine has the same spindle setup as one yours. You sent a pm with pics on your...

I am almost done putting together a multipurpose cnc-d taper machine with indexable head for tapering shafts and hopefully cutting slots in ring billets. The way that my router is mounted it is vertical on since I only have 2 axis (axes just doesn't look right :) my cutter can only cut along the...

sorry it has sold - just got a chance to mark it

---SOLD--- 3 pieces of ivory colored rod with grain 1-1.5" x 12.5" 1- 1.0" x 11.75" 1- .595" x 10" I purchased this from ebay from China and used a couple pieces of the small rod for some ferrules on my home house cues and it has seemed to hold up ok. $60 shipped to the US for the whole lot...

On the way - Thanks Randy. Gotta love the Amazon!

I have it pretty close by timing 60 rpm against my stopwatch. I wish I had a tach of some sort but I guess it is really not that critical as long as it is close. I ended up at 8000 steps per unit and with a 45k signal it capped me at 337.5 on velocity which seems to be accurate on the spindle...

That is similar to setup I have and maybe where I am confused is the gearing on the motor. I actually entered 8000 steps per unit to accommodate foe the 4:1 . So 2000 = 1 rev on the stepper but 8000= 1 rev on the headstock. Is this the correct method or should the gearing be compensated for in...

I have searched a lot through cnczone and mach forums and the only things that I could find were questions being asked by Royce from OB (R.I.P) but just the questions with no real answers. I am running LPT on this machine and after I posted I started thinking that the vel was limited by...

I am a little confused on setting up a stepper as a spindle. I have the thing running but as far a setting rpm and motor tuning. The manual states "Now move to Config>Motor Tuning for the “Spindle Axis.” The units for this will be one revolution. So the Steps per Unit are the number of...

Thanks Kelly. I do plan to buy your software and I though t I remember reading of seeing that it calculated from center which seems to make more sense to me being that you are making repetitive parts that should end up at same diameter. I have downloaded the evaluation copy but have not even...

Thanks for the replies. So you guys are zeroing to the outer edge of the work piece and then going in whatever cut depth (1/2 of) that you we'd when tapering. I kept thinking that you would start from dead center and work out to be able to end up with an exact diameter since the starting pieces...

I am just about done putting together a homemade cnc taper / point / ring billet cutter. I have been racking my brain around how to zero the cutter axis with different bits. I assume that I need zero to dead center at the cutting surface of the bit. I plan on using 6 wing for taper - vertical v...

Sorry Lee just noticed your post. I am around 1500 in but I had some stuff already for it like pc - mach 3 - router and I got a good deal on a gecko g540. I has to do some tweaking due to some instability in a few spots but I am back on track and hope to fire this baby up soon. I will post some...

I would like to try a 1' stick if still available

I have watched these enough and now need more money for more tools and supplies - imagine that. I am starting to feel like an addict. Maybe at some point someone will start some sort of 12 step program :) Anyway, Hightower's 4 dvd set original not copies of course. $130 shipped for them

Thanks guys - I really had no intentions of making them to sell, sort of like the wood shop in the back- there are easier ways to make money. I do love to wheel and dealt hough I also love to tinker and build machines. I usually build one then think of a better way and sell the old one off.

Well this sort of evolved pretty quickly. I went from intentions of mounting a spinner/indexer to my 4x4 cnc machine to thinking that it would be simple and rigid enough to to just build an x and y axis using some of these extruded parts to just carry a laminate trimmer the length of the lathe...