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Originally Posted by dlavery
I am not sure that I would volunteer to do it this way again - as noted, you can purchase the CNC upgrade pre-installed by I.H. and that may be the way to go for a lot of people. Our installation did take a while an required a lot of effort that might otherwise have gone into machining parts. But there is one irrefutable benefit that came from doing the installation ourselves - we now know that machine inside and out, and any problems that crop up are much, much easier to diagnose and repair than they would be otherwise.
-dave
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What did you do about wiring the speed contolers? The mechanical stuff was easy compared to the electrical wiring
The motor they sent us was also not up to the task of raising the Z-axis (it drew crazy current). We had to buy a different motor on ebay and install it.
I looked at the new IH website. The manual looks a LOT better then the one we used. Perhaps the DIY has gotten easier.