Great work Bet that beer went down well!

Just tried an M00 on a test-rig setup as a VMC1300 and it worked ok on my v5.54 (no related changes have been made from 5.53) Do you get the red Program Paused status indicator at the bottom of VR Milling5 ? Does it work if you press start straight away ? ie without opening the guard or changing mod...

S'Ram Back up and the parameters resetting Is it a true Fanuc then ? If so then it'd be a great machine without a retrofit to Mach. It will have a small memory but you shouldn't need that much on a lathe anyway, especially if you get into Cycle and Macro programming. Drip feed is another option as ...

There are normally 3 terminals for a potentiometer.
1- supply - to one end of pot
2- command - to centre of pot
3- common/ground/0v - to other side of pot

If you had a two wire analogue output you would only need to connect to pins 2 and 3 in this example

F+ and F- will be the field output (for a motor with Field windings that need energising, rather than permanent(fixed) magnet which I believe your SEM motor will be)

Have you got an instruction book for the ASHE drive ? I'm not familiar with it so can't comment on the pot. connections

You need to verify the RS232 and cable is working:
This post is a good start:
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Is it RS232 or USB connection to the machine ? Is the machine and PC connected to the same power strip ? Either way it could be an earthing fault which has damaged the port on the machine or the PC - not directly because you are using a power strip to turn off, that should be fine, but the power str...

Dry Silicone spray is the best solution for our Routing machines.
However, the Micromill machines are mechanically different, so grease on the screw and oil on the slides is best for them.

I think it will be a file which can be plugged in, or somehow added to the MasterCAM installation so that the Microrouter machine will appear as a post-process output option. This file will tell MasterCAM how to create gcode which will run on the Denford machine. There are other post files for Maste...

Thanks, it'd be great if you could zip them or .pdf them and post up here...anyone with an Heidenhain control would find them useful.

MasterCAM was pretty good. I've only ever seen it used by someone else, but it looked very capable.
Imagine its bit dated and difficult to use by today's standards.
It'll still do all the things you need a Microrouter to do, if you can get to grips with it.

That's great, thanks for letting us know!

No it's fine on XP. It's a 32 bit setup so I don't know why it's complaining about a 16 bit program ? Try googling the exact error message - I remember having some issues with a 16-bit subsytem error message and think that was related to some other software which had been installed (maybe a virus ch...

What material is it ?
Are you able to hold it on the tailstock ?
Have you got a new sharp tool and is the centre height set correctly ?

I've a feeling it could be related to older versions of XP - can you upgrade it to service pack SP3 and try again ?

There are lots of parameters related to the 4th axis but couldn't see any that enable it - couldn't see any 900 option bits either so it could be a standard feature (not an option) I'd imagine there are some 8000 parameters to set for the 4th axis motor type, see this post: http://www.denfordata.com...

It will have run from VR Milling version 2. You can get it running fairly easily from a basic BOB and Mach if you don't want programmable spindle control Some links Baldor Nextstep Step and Direction pins - 96way connector http://www.denfordata.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2264 Baldor eurocard schemat...

ah is that what they are, yes they are. That's what I meant by "I'd also pull those pins out before they get bent !" They will have something like an M3 thread down the middle, screw something (preferably a pin extractor) into that and tap it out upwards You could fabricate something fairly easily ...

We think angel tech is right, a look at the Starmill asssembly drawings doesn't give us any more info. but the drive assembly is probably bolted to the column. I suspect you will have to get the whole thing out of the cabinet and get access to the back of the column, which will be open. There may be...

Sorry I've never seen any drawings for a Heidenhain version of that machine.
The best we have are the TNC manuals:
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