rhino robotics lathe..

[gadget47]

Greetings all,
I recently obtained a rhino robotics ltd. st/6 cnc lathe. It is in excellent shape and has about 1 hr of run time on it. I have no software to interface with the onboard drive board and was wondering if mach3 lathe would work. according to the limited information i have, the machine works on fanuc g-m codes, and is supposed to come with a dos based program for an external computer.
i've called the company 2 times and e-mailed them once, but have yet to receive any reply. All of the electronics are intact (visual) except it is missing the serial-to-parallel cable. The mfg has a pinout schematic on their website, but I don't want to "let the genie out" just yet! Any help welcome.
gadget

[ger21]

I took a look at that pinout, and it leads me to believe there's some type of board that accepts commands via serial port. Mach3 won't work with that.

If the drives accept step and direction signals, you can probably bypass the serial port and connect the drives to a parallel port and then Mach3 can control them.

[Home-shop2]

Gadget,
I have a ST6 and would like to get it going with Mach3 also. Did you come to a solution with your lathe? I would apprieciate any help that you could give.

Thanks
chuck at Home-shop2

[warnerokk]

i bought a st7 lathe with an 8 station turret
i have some problems with it anyone with any info on this machine would be great
willing to donate for help
thanks
chuck

[Home-shop2]

Chuck,

Sorry the ST7 has a different interface than the ST6.

The 8 station turret is nice I had an air chuck that I replaced.

Hope you find some answers

Chuck at Home-shop2

[usman525]

hi
i have also obtained a st/6 but i cant interface it with the computer when i run the program it says windows cannot run this program due to invalid format.
any help in this regard will be highl appreciated.

[usman525]

kugful.

[Home-shop2]

hi
i have also obtained a st/6 but i cant interface it with the computer when i run the program it says windows cannot run this program due to invalid format.
any help in this regard will be highl appreciated.

The st/6 interface only works with a DOS (only) computer. I tried mine on a 98 machine booted in dos mode and could not make it work.

I hope that helps.

Chuck at home-shop2