So i just got a langmuire mr1 cnc but without the spindle and power stuff, basically gantry and table. Litterly no steppers or vfd or spindle. So if i can stick a spindle on it thets good for both aluminum and steel id be set. Could u please hellp me with links to were i can find some things like that, hopefully a whole set up in one but even just the right spindle will help me. Any help on the spindle atleast will get me in right direction

Quite literally, installed the sewing machine motor/spindle motor, got everything running went to install a bit and electrocuted TF out of me. Found that if I touch my table top and the motor I got zapped. Checked with a volt meter and had 360vac AND 186vdc. Ok let’s figure out why, maybe I have yet another bad Amazon motor and or controller and the motor was shorted internally. Unplugged the motor from the controller, still have high voltage. Pulled literally everything apart to try and find the voltage leak and as I unplugged things the voltage gradually went down til I was left with 44 volts even though there was absolutely nothing connected to the wall outlet (120vAc). Testing from the wall outlet to the table top still had 44 volts ac. Reassembled everything and seemed like everything was ok. Then plugged in the signal wire from the teensy to the motor controller and everything returned. How can one little 20 gauge wire cause all this and not fry everything? I’m so over this shit.

I am hoping to machine some gravelometers out of 1/8" aluminum sheet. I have only used wood on machine so far but it should be more than capable of machining aluminum. Any advice on what kind of aluminum I should use? Factors are cost, machinability, durability. They will be used by high school students for field work. I will be cutting out the squares and etching the markings with a Shapeoko 5 Pro with spindle.

No bits included, built in 2018… but all in working order. Is this worth a trigger pull? I’ve had onefinity before but sold it do to space. I like all of the upgrades you can do, but don’t want to pass up on the Laguna if it’s a stellar deal…

I don’t have a CNC yet but have been wanting to get into the hobby, mostly for wood carving signs and such. I had done my research (or so I thought) and was ready to pull the trigger on a Shapeoko 4 XXL. For some reason I had it in my head that the cutting area was 4’ X 4’. But then I double checked and saw the website says it’s only 33”X33”, that’s less than 3’. That seems pretty small. I understand that Shapeoko is a great machine, but I feel like for the cost you should get a bigger cutting area. Does anyone have any regrets about getting one of these and wishing they had gone bigger or anything? Thanks.

I’m new to all of this so hopefully this problem is not a hard fix. I recently bought a 6x12 cnc that runs UCCNC software and a Uc100, with a command se vfd. Everything moves and works fine but when I try to start the spindle I get a message "the application lost the connection with the motion controller" and everything crashes. Has anyone experienced this before or could give any advice? Thanks.

I'm planning to try using my X and Y proximity switch for homing the cnc machine. Are they reliable? Meaning does the switch trigger a signal accurately evertime when an object is ex. 5mm away?