Project Semi-rigid tapping with Mach 3

I'm using a UC100 motion controller with your C11G breakout board to control a KBCC-125R DC motor driver for the spindle. Then the axis are Automation Technologies Nema 23 3 phase hybrid steppers with their KL-5080H controllers which are very accurate and fast!

The floating tap holder allows for a little over 1/4" of movement in either direction and it is made from hardened A2 tool steel. It uses two set screws from alternate directions to drive the square tang of the tap and one set screw on the top to hold a split steel drill bushing for the taps shaft OD. The two shoulder bolts slide in the grooves of the body to apply the necessary torque, the bottom one had to be ground to miss the saddle. The body is made from 1020 hot rolled steel that is cold gun blued to protect it from surface rust.

Pictures of the tooling

Pictures of the wiring

Tap cartridge removed

Machine running

Shizuoka Milling machine 

Controls upgrade project.

My Shizuoka 3B-V Vertical machining center was built in 1985 and originally had a FANUC 6M Control. The control was very antiquated and difficult to program. The machine has a 28” X travel, 15” Y travel and 16” Z travel. It weighs in at about 11,000 pounds.

It’s a really well-built machine and I wanted to modernize it with a PC-based control. After searching the Internet and looking through several CNC machining  forums I decided to work with CNC4PC for this conversion.

The original control system components and wiring were completely removed and replaced with components purchased from CNC4PC.

The upgraded control components included The following main items,” Warp9” ESS motion control, C62 Breakout board, and “CNCdrives” servo drives

I retain the original FANUC servos and encoders.

A fourth axis was configured using a stepper motor and drive from CNC4PC. This 4th axis can be used for regular milling or laser cutting (which

I started studying CNC quite recently. 2 years ago. Virtually all breakout boards I purchased from Arturo Duncan CNC4PC: C10, C11GS. On the C11G board, I converted my first Lathe Grizzly G0768 into CNC.I used   Mach3 software and a parallel port. But the number of modern computers with a printer port is getting smaller; there are practically none at all. We have to look for old computers and install Windows XP on them - an   operating system that is already 16 years old! But I'd like to have a new computer (even laptop) with a modern 64-bit operating system so that you can continue to run Fusion 360 and finish or fix yourproject without leaving   the workshop. I began to think about software Mach4 and some controller that would work with USB or Ethernet. Arturo advised his new development of the motherboard M16D for PoKeys  57E.And I altered the controller of   my lathe. Many thanks to Arturo for his advice, for the configuration exe file for M16D & MACH4 LATHE. Customer