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Will CNC 12 4.12 do left hand threading? I looked through the Lathe manual and didn't see anything about left hand threading.

I built this lathe 15 years ago and I decided to upgrade it to Acorn. I will take your advise. Thanks Marty.

Hi Marty,
I have attached pictures of my setup. Let me know if this gives you the idea of what I'm doing with the Homing and Limit switches.

Mark

4) set Homing direction? How.
5) set travel limit of each axis? How?
6) set Homing it Home switch? How?

When I try to use Limit All with Home All I get an error message. See attached picture. Why is this?

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Ok, I can do that but I don't show the Limit Switch Defeat button on my VCP. That's what's I'm looking for. All other software I have used always a button like that on the screen. Is there something needed to be setup in the Wizard for that button to appear?

I was bench testing my Acorn setup last night with Homing and Limit switches attached. I simulated the homing routine and next simulated hitting a limit switch and left it so Acorn showed it was on a limit switch. What I'm having trouble understanding is how to get it off of the limit switch. I don'...

I'm glad to hear nobody is having any problems with old MPG. The concern was the new model says it's 'More Stable'.

Why the change if there was no problems with the old model?

Wow! I haven’t taken mine out of the box and it’s out dated already. Unreal.