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This guide is for your general reference when you start machining on your own. This is not a comprehensive guide and there will be details not included.

Turning on the machine

1. Flip the switch on the back right

2. Twist the E-stop button to release it

3. Hit the physical reset button

4. Hit reset on the machine screen

5. Reference your axes, first Z, then X and Y (click ref next to each axis)

Setting up your tools

1. Select your tool

   1. Endmills

      1. Find the correct collet size for your tool and insert into holder

      2. Insert tool into collet and torque to appropriate value

   2. Drills

      1. Insert drill into drill chuck and use spanner wrench to tighten down

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1. 1. 1. , there is no torque spec here, just hit it with the old good n tight

2. Grab the tool currently in the machine, and push the tool release button to take it out.

3. Push the tool release button again and hold. Insert new tool, ensuring the notches on the toolholder and spindle line up.

4. In the bottom right corner of the screen, set the tool number to match the tool number in your cam. Do not leave this as any other number by accident as this will for sure cause a crash.

5. Check that the tool height setter is plugged in. This is the little silver plate on the mill table that has a wire running out to the side. If it is not plugged in, you will break your tool on the next step.

6. Go to the offset tab and click move and set tool length.

7. Repeat until all your tools are set up

Setting up your Work Holding

1. Select your method of workholding

2. Place on mill table

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If you are using a vice or something else that needs to be square to the mill, retrieve the dial gauge

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1. 1. For Vice

      1. Locate the vice with bolts, try to eyeball it as straight as possible, and ever so slightly tighten down

      2. Grab a dial gauge and attach to spindle

      3. Jog the mill so that the tip of the dial gauge is very close to the fixed edge of the vice. (It is very important that you dial off of the fixed side of the vice)

      4. Turn your handle jog speed down and move the spindle so the dial gauge just barely touches the vice. Note the direction that the dial gage pointer moves.

      5. Jog the spindle across the face of the vice, and pay attention to how much the pointer is moving. If the pointer goes more than a few times around the dial, you can break it by moving any further.

      6. Use the dead blow hammer to tap the vice into alignment. You are looking for the deviation across the length of the vice to be under 1-2 thou depending on how precise your part needs to be and how long it is. 1 thou across a long distance and across a short distance are not equal, think about the angle propagation at length.

Zeroing your stock

• Options for zeroing

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