Hi I read somewhere on this forum that when milling acrylic to use a slow speed (6000rpm?) and cool with water. Maybe cutting under water would be ...

Hi, Take a look at this link - it discouraged me from attempting to recover ruined tools, even "full sized" ones. Peter

Hi Hartmut, I made a small vacuum table and milled the sacrificial layer flat using a 1/4" end mill. It measures up to be flat within 0.001" over ...

Hartmut, That's most interesting - I'm grappling with the problem of precise board location when engraving double sided pcb's. My current thinking...

I believe that UCCNC has the means to use a touch probe, though it means that you will need to acquire or write appropriate macro's to make it all wor...

Hi Joe, The only tramming (if you can call it that) I did was to make sure that the Z axis extrusion was at 90 degrees to the X axis using a square...

Hi Joe, Welcome to the club from the UK. You mention that you are mid build on your 840 - if you are not too far forward, might I suggest that y...

Hartmut - it sure will be, I'm about to start on a Brian Law wooden clock design. I've stuck with Win XP - nice and simple, minimum of bells and wh...

Hi again Hartmut, SUCCESS!!!!!!!!! At last I'm in business again. I uninstalled everything again - UCCNC, .net framework, UC100 driver and Ac...

Hi Hartmut, Thanks for those thoughts - I agree that a thorough clean out of any residual s/w is a logical next step to take, I'll try that this mo...

Update on current situation :- Reverted to original memory (it was 780Mb not 1Gb as I said previously). Still UCCNC will not load. I downloaded ...

Just to add a word of warning - it is essential for both personal and machine safety that Emergency Stop button does function correctly. Most unwise t...

Hi Speedo, Thanks for that information, sounds as though my settings are not too far out. Guess I am being ultra conservative on the plunge speed ...