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Thanks heaps guys I will try both ways and see what suits, bump up the minor diameter in intercon and start using tool wear with fusion drawing and see what suits me. Tom I was using a former insert and what I meant about side clearance was that I want it to cut a bit more on the leading surface of ...

Hi Guys , Need help with threading. I am very new to CNC machining I am a manual lathe & mill machinist, I just got my Lathe Pro Version to do threading I tried cutting a M12x1.75 thread it cut fine but just not deep enough and needed a bit side clearance. So to fix it I went back into the progr...

Thanks guys, just to sum it which ever way i go either G 21 at the very beinging of the program or change the machine units to mm i will be good with sizes because acorn cnc12 will take care of it ?
Thanks again
Farrel

Hi everyone If my lathe's turns ratio, tool offsets and and all other parameters is setup in Inches, and now i want to switch it to mm and do some machining in metric size, do i have to redo all my setting again in metric (mm) again ? or will it just run accurate with the same setting. Thanks everyo...

Thanks Marty

Thanks Marty
So maybe the stepper motor and driver like you have mentioned in the parts list of your post about "New build Emco pc5"
Farrel

Hi Marty Iam trying to run the Acorn on my Emco compact 5 cnc lathe , using the original stepper motors and spindle motor with Tb6600 stepper drivers. Iam struggling to get the stepper motors to drive properly. Do you think is it possiable to drive the stock stepper motor ? Is there a video or write...

Hi Marty,
Mate thanks for that i have got my one of that connectors.So do i just leave that bench test ' DB25'lrre drive and do all my axis configuration to it and just use it as my drive type ? Thanks once again
Farrel

Hi guys Iam new to this forum an to centriod I have CNC12 lathe v4.50 free version and Iam having trouble trying to modify the axis drive type , iam using a TB6600 stepper drivers and it is not in the listing under axis drive type. I dont know how to modify similar one or even custom write, it doesn...