Overview of our Shoptask Experience

[Badhabits 101]

I will say that John at Shoptask has been very helpful with some of the Tri-Power issues. I am still waiting on the X-Y leadscrew upgrade that he said was done in May'06. This is what January '07 now? and no upgrade sent as yet. I bought the machine in March "06 and I finally got a very limited manual and the warranty paperwork in Dec. "06. I think that his hands seem to be tied on some things due to the factory in China not responding to some of the issues. At least that is what he has relayed to me. My experience with some of the other machine suppliers including Smithy, has been a lot better as far as parts replacement goes. By the way Bloy2004, I really like your CNC Router setup as I do woodworking as well as metal.
I am looking for a better 0.750" - 0.875" left hand thread ball screw for the Tri-Mill as Nook Industries only sells a 0.625" in left hand which is too small. All suggestions are welcome.
Badhabits 101

[PoppaBear10]

Yea, I am with BLOY on this one.

I too started with the base machine Eldorado, and upgraded, fixed, repaired, re-designed, overcame ect. But for me it was a learning experience to get into CNC.

It gave me a "cheap" mill/lathe to make my mistakes on.

Knowing what I know now, I would have bought a BP 2, and some dedicated 14" x 40 lathe or something.

But again, if you want to learn to build CNC machines, and stuff, it is a good "School-tool". Not really for commercial use, ok for hobbie use.

Chinese quality control is like saying, "Military Intellegence" they are two mutally exclusive terms.

Scott

[digitalmdj]

I didn't buy this machine to hang my crank on . I bought it to machine parts with.But I need to know what is the thread type of the Z axis lead screw. It measures 5/8 x 16 thread . If its a ACME thread it seem impossible to find.

[smallblock]

I had a similar issue on my old Quadra Lift unit, but it was easily solved by changing one belt to a slightly shorter one- Shoptask sent the belt out at no charge.