Centroid Community CNC Support Forum

New Acorn user here. Just wanted to say that I have ordered several times recently from Centroid. Each time, I have received order confirmation immediately, followed up with shipping and tracking info shortly thereafter. Products have arrived WELL packed, secure and quickly. If you are considering t...

happy Friday morning everyone. I hope everyone here is safe and warm during these crazy times. I have a Monarch 10EE that I have converted to CNC. I have run the lathe with DC servos and geckodrives 320X. I found the performance of the small DC servos lacking and have now received my Delta ASDA-B2 d...

I have replacved the original monarch DC spindle motor and Drive with a baldor 7.5hp 3 phase VFD and an 7.5 1150rpm AC ,motor.

The encoder is belt driven, 1:1 ratio to a gear fit on the end of the spindle.

Love the lathe.

Excellent.

More pics attached.

Very much going with the "boxy" look with my parts/covers. it was a fairly ugly 10EE to begin with as it started as an air tracer lathe. All of the air tracer parts were removed and the compound replaced with one from a standard 10EE. For whatever reason, I decided to make the parts for th...

Just thought I would share pics of my encoder mount/rear spindle cover on my 1955 10EE.

cnckeith- Thanks again for posting that link. I have corrected settings per the guide and have established my OTR As: 8.75. Steps per rev is 2000 at this time. Notably smoother homing routine after correction. Overall quieter. Smoother. Running my test program at various feeds in G98 and having exce...

Awesome. Love seeing these machines. Royal Oak MI right around the corner from me.