CNC Videos

Duke University Student CNC Machine Shop Tour
A quick tour of the Centroid CNC equipped Duke University Student Shop. CNC Bed Mills, CNC Knee Mills, CNC Lathes, Prototrak retrofit, Anilam retrofit, Hardinge Style Manual and CNC Lathe, Bridgeport Boss retrofit, Atrump 2 axis knee mill.

PM727M Retrofit with Acorn CNC controller and Techno CNC Lathe
We take a tour of MecTechMike's garage shop and talk about how he retrofitted a Precision Matthews PM727M to CNC using the Acorn CNC controller with Clearpath AC servos. After that, Mike shows us his Techno CNC Lathe and goes over how he updated it with another Acorn and Clearpath axis motors. Interesting subjects covered are Z axis counter balance, Proximity Switches, Encoder installation and Rigid tapping, G99 Encoder spindle to axis electronic transmission, cabinet layout . See CNC touch screen and wireless MPG in use.

Acorn CNC controller with Clearpath Stepper Killer axis motors test run
We removed the old open loop stepper motors on our in house Techno test bed lathe and replaced them with Teknic Clearpath Stepper Killer axis motors and run a test part in this video, start to finish un edited no commentary.