backyard_cnc
06-12-2011, 08:59 PM
Hello to all:
Name is Gerald and I'm a SHOPBOTTER! Hopefully my wife doesn't try to enroll me in a 12 step program so that I might be cured of this Chronic Need (for) Control disease that has taken over my mind :-)
I finally picked up my new to me 2004 vintage PRT96 earlier in the week and got it unloaded and into the shop yesterday. I had made a deal to purchase it over a month ago from a local High School but had to wait for end of classes to pick it up. I had a few moments tonight to reconnect all the motors and hooray hooray she woke up and was moving A-OK. I still have to spend some time leveling and checking the square of the table but a quick check looks not bad and I couldn't resist seeing some movement. I also still have to reconnect the prox sensors on the X-Y which I didn't do right away. Maybe tommorrow............
I am looking forward to becoming an active SHOPBOTTER and forum member. I do have several other CNC tools in the shop including 2 mills and a smaller router but the SHOPBOT way of doing things is a little different so I will need some time to adjust :-). My small router runs under MACH3, my small mill under a proprietary package and my larger knee mill under Centroid's control software. Everybody does things a little different so is a challenge to keep it all straight, but I'm getting there.
Gerald
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Name is Gerald and I'm a SHOPBOTTER! Hopefully my wife doesn't try to enroll me in a 12 step program so that I might be cured of this Chronic Need (for) Control disease that has taken over my mind :-)
I finally picked up my new to me 2004 vintage PRT96 earlier in the week and got it unloaded and into the shop yesterday. I had made a deal to purchase it over a month ago from a local High School but had to wait for end of classes to pick it up. I had a few moments tonight to reconnect all the motors and hooray hooray she woke up and was moving A-OK. I still have to spend some time leveling and checking the square of the table but a quick check looks not bad and I couldn't resist seeing some movement. I also still have to reconnect the prox sensors on the X-Y which I didn't do right away. Maybe tommorrow............
I am looking forward to becoming an active SHOPBOTTER and forum member. I do have several other CNC tools in the shop including 2 mills and a smaller router but the SHOPBOT way of doing things is a little different so I will need some time to adjust :-). My small router runs under MACH3, my small mill under a proprietary package and my larger knee mill under Centroid's control software. Everybody does things a little different so is a challenge to keep it all straight, but I'm getting there.
Gerald
Winnipeg, Manitoba