- Welcome to the General retro-fit forum
- What projects are you working on now?
- Sorry for the inconvenience
- Additional forum
- learning tools or software
- Just saying hi
- I want to bulid a cnc machine
- Sealing a collet?
- Retro-fit question
- My lathe retrofit
- Good site for info
- I need lube!
- Cutting bit questions
- Need vise advise LOL
- Loaded or unloaded balls?
- Retrofits
- What Machinist magazines do you read?
- 5-axis machining
- Correspondence Course
- Has anyone tried HF QCTP
- Jewelry Makers and CNC
- What type of drill bits for lathe?
- Cell Manufacturing
- An idea i've been kicking around...
- Cincinnati Controls
- Old cnc tool holders
- Chandler Duplex Boring Head
- Home built CNC mill #2
- Tools, and where to get them
- Moglice Substitute?
- Copper milling
- Places to buy metals online?
- Shaft lube
- Drilling hardened steel shaft
- Cutting fluid for aluminum?
- Roughing end mills for aluminum?
- Clogged cutters
- Router Table vs. Vertical Mill
- Flashcut?
- fanuc servo motor moving without command
- Type of Aluminum??
- Making a CMM
- CNC retrofit for Mill/drill?
- Aluminium routing - again!
- Thrust bearings
- 2.5-Axis vs 3-Axis
- Lube / coolant
- Cross Slide Vise Recommendation
- Mini-Lathe Recomendations
- Cutting Aluminium
- Spindle speeds for PCB milling
- MicroProto Micromill Feedback Wanted
- X-Y (Sliding) Table Recommendation
- Jet Mill Drill JMD-18PFN what do you think ?
- jet Mill Drill JMD-18PFN , What do you think ?
- waterjet machines
- machining of wax
- Vortex air cooling
- Reaming
- Couple of Questions
- Data on Zero Backlash Nuts?
- chamfering
- Back to the basics!
- Converting 3-in-1 Machines to CNC
- How do you Identify
- 16m options parameters
- 9x20 Lathe question
- PEEK plastic cutting Q's
- Shop Control Software
- BPort Series I and VFD questions
- MT's with a draw bar
- milling aluminum with router(gentry) cnc setup
- Titanium cutting? What to use!
- Z axis for porter Cable router
- Round 2 :Z axis for porter Cable router
- saw this on ebay...don't need them all
- I need a tap
- Angle accuracy +- 10 minute
- HS Air spindle
- npt threads
- EMCO Compact 5 cnc help
- plunge roughing pockets
- Buying my first cnc mill. Please help!
- Help to pick small (not mini) CNC Lathe
- Black Diamond Polymer Linear Guides
- Need an R8 Shell Mill Arbor
- Hitachi Seiki MH 400 drawbar tension
- Colchester Triumph 2000 Help Needed
- Cutting tool shape for PCB milling
- Suggestions
- NEED HELP Choosing A Lathe
- Machine bearings
- Explaination in Layman's terms
- Home Made Mill/Lathe/Press (With Pics)
- cnc metal frame
- mounting a camera ona 5-axis router
- Looking for small CNC for newbie
- Anyone know anything about this machine?
- CNC recommended reading?
- Intro + engraving bits
- Tool selection help
- CNC machine suction table
- Small spindle selection
- Best Mill for 1" thick Aluminum?
- PCB Mill
- 5-th axis design
- need help with cnc problem!
- Fanuc 3t manual
- Restoring Old Atlas Lathe
- Cincinnati 5VC750 acramatic 900V2
- commercial feed charts
- Beginners CNC Advice
- IPT too fast for old equip
- correct pallet check
- Ballscrew pitch error compensation
- Recommendation for stepper motor and driver
- new to cnc
- Daewoo vs Okuma lathes
- Hobby milling machine - with a small budget
- HF lathe question
- Cheap vertical mill
- The new guy on the block
- Taking the hardness out of steel
- Router milling
- A funny thing happened on the way to the forum
- help
- cutter compensation while contouring
- Feedback on an Emco ET-420 CNC Lathe
- upgrade
- cutting splines??
- New Mill Question
- First CNC Machine
- Converting a Mill/Drill to CNC
- Retrofit: Central Mach. CNC 3 axis Mill
- PRACTICE Materials ??
- Calculating draw bar force on R8 collet
- corner rounding
- Maxnc Mill
- Wormgear cutting
- Lathe opinions, help identify!
- aluminium and steel machining
- Spindle material
- Another feed rate, cut depth question
- Need Info. To Convert Atlas/Sears Lathe To CNC
- Motorcycle rims
- Cross Slide Lubrication
- Feed rates in wood?
- New Spindle Design, feedback plz!
- grease for bearings
- My Lathe project; might CNC it one day
- Home made lathe ideas
- mill lathe combo
- the finishing pass
- Jet BD-920N Opinions/Recommendations
- First look at my Mill project (photo)
- My vise is driving me to vice! Help
- Speed/Accurate,controllers,PSU
- Mill/Drill lubrication question??
- I just had to Laugh
- Material ID
- Lathe machining questions
- Nuts; I'm thinking about my nuts
- Heidenhain DRO advice
- Vise Recommendation
- $making Opportunites for a mill
- Need advice on strength in these 2 set-ups
- New Grizzly Lathe what else do I need?
- G1005 CNC Conversion Ballscrews
- Manual thread turning handle
- Collets
- hypoid-gear
- How do I make these things? (General machining questions)
- I feel like giving up.
- Please Help me starting right!!!
- HF lathe to CNC
- Why use pulleys on axis motors
- Where can I find
- Which spindle...?
- seeking thread cutting cncmini lathe
- AC Brushless motor testing
- Galil DMC-2150 worth getting?
- Stepper Increment Advantages
- tool blanks
- Hello everyone cnc mizak ciman problems
- Manual lathe CNC conversion
- quick help
- Does anyone know how to use this DRO?
- Help with South Bend Magnaturn CNC lathe
- Need to CNC my mill quickly - advise?
- Want to Get Started w/ CNC this is what I have so far.
- Drip Feeding To a Brother (TC-218)
- Coolant question
- opinions and maxnc?
- Linear Guides with Teflon Bearings
- So I got this new cool ballscrew...
- Newbie with Questions
- i keep on breaking bits???
- if cnc..do I need DRO??
- Power supply
- Home and Limit
- Gearboxes for Steppers
- Help me place a order with ENCO.
- acramatic series 5 control
- Rubber CNC Keyboards
- automatic tool changers
- Acronyms
- Regrind toolholders
- CNC lathe conversion (again, sorry!)
- Easy CNC conversion
- New to CZ, CNC'ing Mill
- What size steppers?
- *** Where is the best place to buy tool online? ***
- Home built barfeeder
- Mazak C axis programming
- Greco minifile
- Router or Mill?
- tool holder types
- Machining Mild Steel
- 60$ rotary table?
- Cutting Large Diameter Holes in Aluminum Plate
- Single to Three Phase Help, Please
- imported rotary tables
- non-circular lathe turning Help!
- Cheap coolant system
- first part on cnc conversion
- ...is it worth?
- Delrin nuts for lathe?
- OPTIMUM BF 20 Vario Mill Made in Germany
- Homebrew mist system
- non-circular CNC turning.
- R8 Quick-change recommendations
- homebuilt manual mill thoughts
- Complete beginner needs book recommendations
- My 2nd CNC machine design
- Spindle power by servo motor
- Where to begin? Retrofit a Stepper Control to a Mill-Drill?
- Another update at Dan Kautz' site-Detailed photography
- Spindle construction
- Stepper Torque required for 7x18 Mill/Drill (Acme Screws)?
- Pcb mill
- New project hot off the truck
- manual lathe
- 3 Axis CNC Barracuda from Bobcad
- 5 axis Micromill
- Newbie looking for input/direction
- First tool for the tiny lathe (home made) pics
- My Tiny lathe in action (warning)
- Newbie, please help me
- Looking for ProLIGHT 2000 Manuals/Info
- The Mystery of Z offset
- Want a BIG CNC Mill, Cheap? (not an ad)
- Direct Drive Servo or pulleys
- Lathe Speed Control
- Vacuums?
- 5 Vane Impelar
- fagor 8025 threading
- Is every SIEG machine the same?
- HF 8x12 has arrived!
- Direct Drive Vs Belt Drive for a Mill/Drill Retrofit?
- Choosing a Power Supply for Retrofit?
- compound angled holes on 3-axis machine
- Belt-drive design
- G Code Generation
- How deep with a .375 Carbide cutter.
- MT3 to CAT V30 is it possible?
- New mill just arrived
- Fanuc alarm
- Who can do CNC Conversion?
- Really good deal 3" 3 jaw
- Lathe - internal facing tools?
- double sided job setups
- Acramatic Contol on Cincinatti Talon Turning Center
- Fun lathe only projects
- Brass collets
- looking for high tech boneyard
- Prospects of CNC for grizzly knee mill
- CNC Pet Tag engraver: DIY help?
- what up with the parting?
- New Mori Seiki site
- What is this collet size?
- Threading information
- R8 taper
- anyone know of the Techno routers?
- Fanuc O-M positioning
- Control Techniques FNC-4 controller
- Hay Stevie.
- Grinder CNC Conversion
- Ball screws singles/doubles/preloaded???
- sample file for Heidenhain
- new to cnc. have about 3k budget, how to get started?
- Choosing Steppers
- Which milling head for a little mill ?
- coolent flex pipe
- Which boring bar?
- dumb question
- Steppers - High or Standard torque
- Tools advice needed for start
- Angular Contact Ball Bearing ?
- Mini Mill Motor Amperage
- Which collet chuck?