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Awesome, thank you.

I've been able to adjust it via stop-block tweak so that it's only 0.5mm out of square. Left to right is 2574 and right to left is 2574.5. I suspect breaking out the dial...

I'm looking for photos of a PRT Alpha that's been upgraded with the hardened rails. Specifically, how they were installed on the gantry.

Thanks!

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Are the corner bolts you're referring to the ones outlined in red on this image? https://i.imgur.com/8WBQTuT.png

Thanks!

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I'm not that concerned about how far the stop block is from the end - I was referring to using it as a way to square the gantry when the opposite end is pulled against its stop block.

tnx.

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I'm getting back to using my 2006 PRT Alpha 96 after leaving it idle for a number of years. I wanted to check and make sure that I had it square - for various reasons it was possible that it wasn't...

Thanks, I'll give them a shot!

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I've got a 2006 PRT Alpha96 that I'd like to upgrade to hardened steel rails - ShopBot no longer offers the upgrade kit, nor the parts.

Can someone point me to a source of the correct parts?
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D'oh! I misread what you wrote, my apologies. :)

Thanks!

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I'd appreciate that, thanks!

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That's really interesting, thanks! I don't know that my PRT Alpha control board has that daughter board with the X motor link jumper. I'll have to do some digging to see if I can find it.

Could...

I've got a PRT Alpha 96 that I picked up new in 2006. I've been getting more into CNC stuff lately and I'm in the process of building a PrintNC CNC machine - this got me thinking about using a...

I'm kinda sad I didn't know this prior to spending the $400 for an Aspire upgrade. (Autodesk has a sale going on for F360 - $382 for a year. Good until 1/31.)

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Update - after being reminded that the application is written in VB6, I tried changing the device to COM2 via Device Manager and it worked perfectly. The "1-16" indication in the dialog box is...

srwtlc had the right idea. Thank you! (There's /zero/ excuse for using a VB6 program in production in 2019. As a professional software developer with 35 years of experience, this makes me...

I have not. Does that a) force the rpm tool to accept the port I give it and b) correct the error that makes the dialog only appear for a flash?

tnx.

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So my trusty ShopBot computer bit the dust today. 13 years is a good run, right? :) (motherboard won't post...)

Anyway, I get a replacement machine up with Windows 7x64 and after a lot of...

Again, the problem isn't the variable type - it's the fact that a command to read data from disk is attempting to do things that are WAY outside the scope of what the command is apparently intended...

The system variables are listed on page 35 of the programming handbook, with no illumination of their origin, so I don't know what manual you're looking at page 9 of. Also the "VA" command mentions...

What page? I can't believe I missed that.

Thanks..

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I know that it works fine if I do that. The problem is that an input statement shouldn't be interpreting data read from disk as if they were variables, let alone trying to perform a math operation...

I'm trying to understand some very weird behavior I'm seeing in the INPUT # statement. I'm using v3.8.50 of the control software.

Here's a test program:

open "test.txt" for input as #1

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In the ShopBot Programming handbook, it shows the following example:


&MyString = test string 'string variable without quotes

How may of you folks actually assign strings without quotes? If...

Are all the system variables "%(nn)" read-only? It /appears/ that way, but I wanted to know for sure. (When I make an assignment like "%(1) = 24.0625", the contents of %(1) don't change to reflect...

Thanks Bill! I kept thinking it was 100kgarages. :)

Michael, I used the licensed version of KisSlicer (http://www.kissslicer.com) to slice the model. I designed it using SolidWorks 2012.

I've...

Thanks Bill. I wish I could remember where I got the files. Having the wheel brackets makes me want to build the stools that were on the same site. :)

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