Search:

Bret, there may have been a little miscommunication on that. There is a new SB probe, relatively new anyway. We have been making a similar probe for several months and it has tested well, we are...

David, blowing a fuse is not a common occurrence, the only situations I know of where that has happened there was some sort of wiring problem. In your case we ought to change fuses and see if it was...

I have done some brass cutting, so I'll see if I can help. I did some cutting in solid brass a couple months ago, I made belt buckles as gifts for my groomsmen and a couple other folks. I used a...

Briggs, we are working on some tools and resources to make this easier for educators like yourself. I hate that we don't have anything for you today. Recently one of my coworkers discovered this...

Hello, this is Grant from ShopBot. As Bill mentioned, I have been working on some new techniques for implementing dual heads. Here's the way we do it currently. In PartWizard and the ArtCAM family...

Dan, it sounds like you may be experiencing a problem related to electrical noise, especially if you have a single phase Colombo spindle. The first thing we usually try to see if this is the case is...

Tony, let me see if I can help. I think there are a few things going on here that are really clouding the issue. First of all, I think your fundamental problem is procedural. I would like you to...

Mike, I would really like to take a look at your table. Do you have any pictures you wouldn't mind sharing? You can send them to my email - grant@shopbottools.com, or give a ring if you would like...

Mike's advice is more direct and succinct than I could have put it, and he is exactly right. When you check in device manager, you are looking for "Aten USB to serial bridge", which should be listed...

Christian, as I told you in the email I sent you yesterday, there are ways to do drilling cycles in ShopBot code easily, but they are not Gcode. If you are using the appropriate postprocessor in...

Gerald Dorrington was nice enough to pass along Mike's number, it made in on the DHL shipment by the skin of it's teeth. Mike, you should see it next week and please call us before you hook it up. ...

Mike, we are real short on people here today so we've had a tough time keeping up with everybody. It sounds like your X driver is definitely dead and unfortunately I think the chip swap you made may...

To the gentlemen that have had trouble with their Z axes -

I was working with someone today that called to report the same issue. I collected what information I could and then set out to...

Details are now available...

http://www.shopbottools.com/PRTalpha.htm