Last winter I got the CNC bug and started putting together a small setup. I purchased a HobbyCNC board and made up a power supply. I added these to a pair of stepper motor equipped slide tables and ended up with a working system. No one warned me how addictive this stuff was. A couple of months later I end up with a Lagun CNC mill. (SE-18836) The machine appears to be in great shape with little wear. The ways are hard chromed and it has 4 servos. (x,y, z & z?) The knee is powered as well as the quill, but not at the same time. I'm guessing you need to swap cables between the 2 z's, but when I tried it the knee would not move. Is there something in the controller that needs to be changed? I'd like to find an operating manual. I know Lagun is still in busniess, but I'm hoping someone here might have an old copy. It has a Bandit controller which I intended to replace with a PC and Mach 3, but it works fine the way it is so I'm not changing it.

J. Clear

Sounds like a good project, I think that I would use mach 2 (or 3) and set up two different configuration files; one to drive the spindle z maybe for drilling and the knee zee when doing typical milling.

Anyway that's my nickels worth

Ron

Ron,
I just saw your reply. I'm reading that the Bandit controls aren't the best, but while it's still working I'm not going to change it. Problem is that there is only 1 cable for the knee/quill so only one will work at a time. Right now since I'm still learning I need to keep things simple.:)

J.