Recent content by Wade16

My name is Wade La Quire. I am 67 and a retired machinist from the Civil Service US Dept. of the Navy I live in Southern California. I keep busy in retirement with small projects that I make on my newly acquired used Syil X3 CNC mill. I came to this forum to get some solutions to a problem I...

Problem solved. The piece of wires in the photo were an extension to the original wire plug coming from the control box in the back of the mill. I just hooked the original plug into the stepper motor plug and instant success. I do not see why the other owner thought he needed more length, as the...

I went to check the wires going to the stepper motor and they were wrapped in black tape by the last owner I presume. When I got the tape off, this is what I saw. The yellow wire was loose, and as I turned the plug, the blue wire fell off also. I will get the wires soldered and see if that fixes...

I have a Syil x3 Mill Conversion cnc and While I was moving the X axis table using Mach3 controler and keyboard, the table started to shake and vibrate like the ball screw was starting to jam. When I reversed the X direction and the vibration stopped and seemed normal. When I went back in the...