currently looking for a replacement controller for my harbor freight lathe, your suggested replacements are still pretty expensive there are less expensive on amazon would you happen to know the current draw requirements for this lathes motor? thanks for your response
Thank you for these informational videos! I'm looking to get my first lathe, a desktop mini, and possibly perform a CNC upgrade. 1. I work fast in Blender for 3D printing, exporting STLs to Cura. There is a Blender-CNC add-on but I found it buggy or just lacking tutorials. I have done some minor cuts and laser burns with Fusion360 and a mini CNC "3018" via UGS on a PC. I'd rather avoid Fusion360. With a lathe, I want to cut threads, tapers, bore holes and fittings for prototype-machines in aluminum and ideally SS. Is a CNC-lathe necessary for this? I suppose a very skilled machinist can do these tasks totally manually. I think a CNC conversion is the way to go, but if Fusion360 is required, I'm not so keen on it. It seems DeskProto is only for milling. 2. Any opinion on HFT lathe vs Sieg/little machine shop or an ebay model? 3. Best UA-cam reference video or any other instructional video? (in particular on doing a GRBL conversion) 4. If starting over, what would you do differently? Thank you! -Dave (on a tight budget)
currently looking for a replacement controller for my harbor freight lathe, your suggested replacements are still pretty expensive there are less expensive on amazon would you happen to know the current draw requirements for this lathes motor? thanks for your response
Thanks for the information! Did you ever get yours working?
Thank you for these informational videos! I'm looking to get my first lathe, a desktop mini, and possibly perform a CNC upgrade.
1. I work fast in Blender for 3D printing, exporting STLs to Cura. There is a Blender-CNC add-on but I found it buggy or just lacking tutorials. I have done some minor cuts and laser burns with Fusion360 and a mini CNC "3018" via UGS on a PC. I'd rather avoid Fusion360. With a lathe, I want to cut threads, tapers, bore holes and fittings for prototype-machines in aluminum and ideally SS. Is a CNC-lathe necessary for this? I suppose a very skilled machinist can do these tasks totally manually. I think a CNC conversion is the way to go, but if Fusion360 is required, I'm not so keen on it. It seems DeskProto is only for milling.
2. Any opinion on HFT lathe vs Sieg/little machine shop or an ebay model?
3. Best UA-cam reference video or any other instructional video? (in particular on doing a GRBL conversion)
4. If starting over, what would you do differently?
Thank you!
-Dave (on a tight budget)
what was the out come. did you repair it?
Better replace those caps!
Hello , where can i buy the control board ?..
Did you watch the video? he gives you two sources around 4:00