Re: CNC Newbie

Like everyone Denford can be both very helpful and unhelpful
depending on their mood and who you talk to.

My advice would be to start again as suggested by Terry, strip down
remove the old and replace with a good retrofit. Mach 2 sounds good
but being a lathe you need to watch the threading issues. I, like
many others in the UK have done this with a Denford Starturn,
keeping the driver boards (X and Y) and the spindle controller, and
it works fine. You will probabally find many of the boards
reuseable if not Geckos are quite cheap.
Fred

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "Terry Owens" <terry@o...>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> They may not support the lathe as such but I have found the

company very

> helpful and easy to deal with. I phoned them, sometime ago,

requesting

> information on a '70's combination lathe that they built just for

schools.

> They got out the drawings and told me everything I wanted to know.

If it is

> just a hand-wheel you are wanting, why not make it yourself or

draw it up

> and ask if anyone will do it for you.
>
> If the main-board is an Acorn I wouldn't go down the route of

trying to get

> a PC to talk to it. It will be much easier to rip it out and fit a

PC. The

> stepper driver boards should be step and direction and can be used

again, if

> they are working, likewise the power supplies.
>
> Regards,
>
> Terry
>
>
> > I was told that Denford no longer give
> > support for the machine.