Soon, i will buy a taig!

[BodaciousBrian]

With my tax return i plan to get a fully CNC Taig 3 axis mill.

Would i be better off getting the cnc Taig, or the CNC ready Taig and putting electronics on myself? Ill be working with 99% aluminum(after i figure out what I'm doing and stop testing with wood)

I would REALLY like USB control over the machine too, and I've heard of a controller that can do it, but it was expensive, back-ordered and could only control one stepper. Is there a good way to do usb?

[jalessi]

Brian,

You cant go wrong purchasing a turnkey CNC Taig from Deepgroove.

http://www.deepgroove1.com/cncmill.htm

$1,700.00 with a G540 Gecko drive, steppers and power supply is a very fair deal.

USB solution:

Smoothstepper

http://www.warp9td.com/

Or save your money by using the existing parallel port on your computer, you could purchase a fair amount of tooling for $150.00

Jeff...

[BodaciousBrian]

That does look like a great package! it looks like i could get 4 axis for the price i was planning to get 3.

[BodaciousBrian]

I should be ordering my machine today. I'm just waiting for the tax return check to clear =)

I settled on the deepgroove1, with the 4th axis and trunnion table.

I'm going to be making paintball gun parts, so ill be threading very odd threads from 1" to 1/4" or smaller. Will i need any upgrades to the machine for threading? I dont get how a thread mill could tap a hole with out knowledge of spindle rpms. I would imagine a single point thread mill would do quite well on the machine as is, but i don't see that working too well on smaller screw holes.

[jalessi]

Brian,

This document is a very good read.

http://www.machsupport.com/docs/Mach3_Threading.pdf

Jeff...

[BodaciousBrian]

I just skimmed though that guide really quick, It looks like a great read. I'll print that out and read that tonight.

I've been looking at helical interpolation threading. This looks fairly easy to setup in mastercam(i only messed around with it for about 3 minutes though ) Will the deepgroove1 will be able to do this out of the box(after tuning and setup of course)? I don't see why this would need spindle RPM information. I'm sure coolant will be recommended though.

This post: http://www.pbnation.com/showthread.php?t=803907 contains most of the thread sizes ill be dealing with.