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Thx!

Erwin

Thx!

Erwin

Hi everyone!

I am moving my shop and need to disassemble my PRS Alpha 120-60-6. The technician who assembled it some 10 years ago is no longer with my company.

Is there a specific disassembly...

Hi everyone!

I am moving my shop and need to disassemble my PRS Alpha 120-60-6. The technician who assembled it some 10 years ago is no longer with my company.

Is there a specific disassembly...

Got it! Thanks again!

Thanks, Jeff!
VFD is probably the way to go then. Did you try it was a ShopBot spindle and blower as well?
Erwin

Hi there,

My shop is about to move to a new location with only single phase power.

Our ShopBot PRS Alpha with a 5HP Colombo spindle and a 16.9HP Republic blower/vacuum requires 3 phase power,...

Hi there,

My shop is about to move to a new location with only single phase power.

Our ShopBot PRS Alpha with a 5HP Colombo spindle and a 16.9HP Republic blower/vacuum requires 3 phase power,...

Our ovals oblong cuts do seem to be long on the x axis.

I tried loosening the motors and re tightening, I didn't notice any real movement...I'm going to give it another try as well as look at the...

We are getting slightly oblong/oval holes where we should have circles. I've read some similar posts and most people point to the tracks becoming unaligned. We will check after this project. Anything...

Thanks everyone for the replies, that is what we had assumed.

We are cutting small parts out of 6061 aluminum and have both 1/4 an 1/8 O flutes. Both can complete the job. Is there one that you would recommend over the other?

Hey everybody,

Took alot of your suggestions for getting rid of comm returns and seems to going good so far. 2 prong plug grounded to shopbot control, shorter usb, black viper...

But had...

Brady,

Its not for a greenhouse but the same type of material. I'll try increasing the rpms, we were afraid of melting.

Thanks!,

Hi,
We are cutting triple walled polycarbonate and getting little "strings" along the vertical braces. We have tried some different cutting speeds 1-3 and they all seem to be giving more less the...

George

Thanks for the link we actually just bought and are returning those bits. Only the larger bits are shanked down the smaller bits are not shanked up.. McMasters is giving us credit and...

We do alot of drilling and not as much milling. We are on the lookout for a set of drill bits that all have the same size shank to fit our collets, we have a 1/4 & 1/2. We talked with McMaster Carr,...

So we ordered the Viking bits, and even after 2 Mc Master's people telling us they all had the same shank when they arrived only the larger bits were shanked down to 1/4 and the smaller bits were...

Thanks for all the replies, I hope to start implementing them and hope it works out.

Is there a good long "benchmark" file that would be good to test with?
Thanks,

Thanks for the replies,

I looked over the Black Viper instructions and see the settings to change but am not sure where to go to change things?
Do i go to "run" or is there a program to...

Jeff thanks for the reply,
we have Zone Alarm installed but always shut it down beforehand.. We also shutdown Microsoft security essentials from the task manager

pictures of wiring

we tried running our 120x60 shopbot on two of our older computers and we would get comm errors fairly often. We did have a usb 2.0 hub for them and talked with shopbot many times. We tried running it...

Thanks Don, these bits look to be mainly used for woods and composites?

Do you use them for aluminum and plastics as well? or have another suggestion?
Thanks,

Hi,

We mainly cut/drill into plastics and aluminum. We are looking to buy a drill bit set and were wondering what brand others have had the best luck with?

McMaster sells sets of Viking bits...