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ASSEMBLY

The mini mill is packaged in three separate boxes to allow shipment via UPS. There is some basic assembly required after unpacking everything.

All the cnc mini mills are run in between 20 and 40 hours to assure everything is working properly before shipping.

As a result there may be some excess oil or grease that you may want to wipe off before continuing.

After unpacking the mini mill you will need to attach the vertical column and head assembly to the base.

There are three Allen head screws and washers that attach the column to the base.

The head assembly and column weight aprox 70 lbs so its recommended that you have someone hold the column steady while you

tighten the Allen screws.

The next step is to place the z axis motor assembly and belt on the head. It’s held in place with 4 Allen screws.

It’s fairly easy to slip the belt in place while assembling the cover if you place the belt in the cover attached to the motor and lower

the assembly in place while turning the large cog on the screw allowing the belt to move into place. You should rotate the large knurled cog a

few rounds before placing the Allen screw that holds the cover in place.

Follow the same procedure for the axis motor and belt assembly.

After assembly you are ready to attach the control cabinet to the mill and computer.

A cable is included to attach the control to the printer port of your computer.

The three cables from the mill attach to rear of the cabinet, the individual cables are labeled X, Y and Z .

They need to be plugged into the appropriate ports as labeled below.

Once you have the control attached to the mill it time to install the CNC software.

The control included is wired for Mach, Kcam or other software which out puts a step and direction signal thru the printer port.

Below is a list of the setup parameters followed by screen shots of the setup pages you will need to modify for Mach3.

QUICK START GUIDE

After installing MACH3 its time to configure the software to work properly with the milling machine.

The setup procedure is well documented in the MACH 3 manual as well as the forum, so this guide will only focus on the areas that are specific to this machine.

Click on the config tab at the top and choose General Config… which will open the window shown below.

There are a lot of useful settings on this page; the one you need to focus on in this quick start setup is the noise reduction setting in the upper right.

The debounce should be set as 100 and index debounce should be set to 4.

Then click OK at the bottom right to close the general configuration window.

Now go back to the Config tab and choose ports and pins. This will set the output signals to the proper pins so the computer can communicate with the controller.

This is the ports and pins dialogue window that will pop up , most of the setup you will need to focus on is done from this window.

On this first page you will just need to be concerned with the port 1 box . click the port enabled box if it isn’t already checked.

The port address should already be entered.

Next you will need to click the Motor Outputs tab and the window above will be visible, just change the settings to match the example above.

You will notice the A-axis isn’t enabled, if you decide to add a rotary table or other 4^th axis device you can come back into setup and enable it here.

Now click the Input Signals tab to set up the E-stop, just scroll down until you come to E-stop, check enable and set the port # to 1 and Pin Number t 10.

This will complete the settings needed for the quick start setup in this window.

Click the Apply button in the lower right corner to save all the settings entered in the previous windows.

You will now need to setup the motors by choosing Motor Tuning in Config as pictured above.

This is the motor Tuning Setup window, you can choose the different axis with the Axis Selection buttons on the right side.

Input the values pictured along the bottom to match the example above. The settings will be slightly different for the three axis and examples for all three axis are pictured.

Start by putting in the figures above for the x axis , then click the SAVE AXIS SETTINGS button before choosing the next axis . You must save the settings before moving to the next axis.

The steps per is the number of steps the computer needs to send the controller per inch of travel and wont change after the initial setup.

These are the important settings that will get you up and running.

Once the settings above are entered you can power up the controller and jog the three axis.

From the main screen in Mach3 you can push the tab key and bring up a window that will allow you to push buttons

either on screen or the keyboard to move the different axis . The MACH3 forum has a lot of very useful information as well as links to

very useful video tutorials that will step you thru everything possible with MACH3.