This evening I was going to swap the drives as you suggested,on impulse I thought I would give it one more try ,powered up the machine ,switched to manual,and the X and z axis worked ok ,loaded a program and it ran through the 140 lines ok without a hitch,I ran it again ,and it was ok .so whatever i...

Thanks Martin ,before I try that ,correct me if I am wrong ,with the z axis having a train wreck ,the stepper motor was over torqued.does that mean that the rotor position has been lost and the system has to be reinitialized.if so how do I do that ?
Regards Peter

I purchased an early orac lathe 1985 ,this lathe is as new it has only done 2 test pieces,all of the accessories are still in the protective coating ,fired the machine up ,everything was working ok .loaded a program for a test piece,started cutting ok ,as it was doing the final profile,I had used th...

Does anyone have any Philips mini cassette tapes,LDB 4401 ,they wish to sell ,or can anyone tell me where to buy them .
Peter

hi keith,hope i have the right person.do you have a dtt heidenhein overlay for sale ? if you still have it i would be intersted in purchasing it.
regards
peter

i think i need some help with this.when i got the star mill it came with the desk top tutor(-the overlay)the power pack. the leads all the manuals.tooling,and original paperwork.so in order to find out if this is heidenhain or fanuc or other.do i need to hook this up to a pc.if so is it possible to ...

i have aquired a starmill,c/w the desk top tutor,but the membrane or overlay that goes on the keypad was lost.does anyone have one for sale.or where can i buy one .regards peter