Have tried taking the cards out and reinserting them with no effect. The toolpost seemed to shudder and then moved rapidly and hit the workpiece. I considered trying to take the tool out as this was embedded in the alloy workpiece, but when I slackened the screws off the toolpost was trying to move ...

OK have done, and copied this to previous topics page so it all follows on

Got the machine up and running thanks to Martin but now seem to have another problem. Started the machine this morning, HOME set ok, and loaded offsets previously set. After a couple of minutes the toolpost then moved of its own accord, no command had been input, and tool ran into stationary workpie...

Thanks very much for your time and help Martin, much appreciated, now hopefully I can get the machine programmed and running.

Any suggestions on this please, I'd really like to get this machine up and running and it seems so close!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The machine has the large red switch on the top and this locks the door in position when the machine and air is switched on. Have had the top off it and the relay clicks in, but still unable to get the machine to HOME

Thanks for the manual, much appreciated.
However, have tried a number of times to HOME the machine to no avail, nothing happens at all, no error messages.
As I said earlier, I can load, edit and simulate a program, but cant get the machine datumed to get any further.

Ah well now, not as daft as you may think - praps its just me that's an idiot but this is all new to me!!!!!! Have put a disc in and the program now loads, slowly getting there, thanks for your patience! When I press the "Home" key the screen now says; Machine Datum X and Z keys to datum an axis (Ha...

Good morning I have followed your previous instructions, connected a keyboard, and changed the date, time, and disk to 3 1/2". I still get the message; Diskette error - press any key Pressing any key merely brings up the same error message over and over again. I have turned the machine off and on to...

Thanks for quick reply, however with the machine having a desk-top tutor fitted, which are the CRTL-ALT-S keys?

Would appreciate some help please, we have a CycloneTU-150-U, (serial no. 70724F), fitted with a desk-top tutor, which hasn't been used for a couple of years. I would like to get it going again, but when switched on I get the following messages; real time clock error keyboard error diskette error - ...