How about some Stinger feedback?

[Richard Link]

Hey you new Stinger owners....those of us patiently (or not) waiting on our machines would like to hear your early impressions.

Happy with the machine?

What kinds of things have you tried with it?

Problems to report?

For you Cobra gurus who now own a Stinger, how does the little brother compare in performance? Have you tried cutting any files on both machines as a comparison in terms of speed, cut quality, etc? Differences in feed/speed for identical files on both machines?

I am trying to learn everything I can to get ready Gotta make the weeks go by.....

Richard

[james mcgrew]

the machine is an overbuilt piece of quality!! with the r&p on the z it is smooth and fast, in fact i am testing the wincnc and have achieved comparable results in smoothing and configuration and am conveting my direct drive "Z" screw to a 5-1 gearbox to better emulate the stingers performance on the z speed!! they are selling the heck out of the stinger and joey told me today they had a walkin customer buy one yesterday!! there will be some 15 + new owners in the coming weeks and the fellows are ramping up production.

[Richard Link]

That's great news, Jim. Glad to hear that Joey and company are selling a lot of machines. We've got to support the rare company in this environment that is willing to build quality and support it and take a chance that people will pay for it. At least that's one of the reasons they have my $$.

Sounds like the Stinger community is going to be growing fast. I hope we can all create a lot of buzz with posts and videos to keep getting the word out if the machine is as fine as you say. Not that you could be doing a better job of that then you already are (you appear to be superhuman or cloned or something). Gotta keep those poor camaster guys working nights and weekends....

Richard

[james mcgrew]

oh i work hard to tick them off!!

[Mick A Martin]

Hello,
My CAMaster Stinger has arrived in the local depot, I am heading out there now to pick it up. I will be picking up a new dedicated computer tomorrow, it was meant to be ready today.

I will post pictures soon

Mick

[Mike Heidrick]

Mick, are you getting a NEW computer or an oder one? You installing a parallel port card or does it have one on the motherboard.

Also what is the travel of the Z on the stinger? Would it be possible to hook a 4th axis up for doing some spindle work?

Mikie

[Dennis OBrien]

Aslo an important question: What operating system are you getting on the PC? Mach3/parallel port and 64bit Windows 7 is a no go.

Dennis

[Joey Jarrard]

Aslo an important question: What operating system are you getting on the PC? Mach3/parallel port and 64bit Windows 7 is a no go.

Dennis

Dennis I have been telling this to folks I talk to. I am designing some things for the IWF and will get back to the Good stuff "Stinger how to vids" soon. The package went out today.

Hello,
My CAMaster Stinger has arrived in the local depot, I am heading out there now to pick it up. I will be picking up a new dedicated computer tomorrow, it was meant to be ready today.

I will post pictures soon

Mick

Mick I would love to see those pics of the new 300lb baby on the changing table.

That's great news, Jim. Glad to hear that Joey and company are selling a lot of machines. We've got to support the rare company in this environment that is willing to build quality and support it and take a chance that people will pay for it. At least that's one of the reasons they have my $$.

Sounds like the Stinger community is going to be growing fast. I hope we can all create a lot of buzz with posts and videos to keep getting the word out if the machine is as fine as you say. Not that you could be doing a better job of that then you already are (you appear to be superhuman or cloned or something). Gotta keep those poor camaster guys working nights and weekends....

Richard

Richard I will be back there at 8 in the morn.

[Richard Link]

Mike,

From my understanding, the Z on the stinger is 5". I would imagine the true usable Z might be a bit smaller depending on what you've got on the table. CAMaster offers a recoil lathe option so 4th axis is a go.

With respect to operating system, I don't see a good reason to go windows 7 64 bit and run mach3 (even if it worked). As I understand it, a mach3 machine is better used as a stand alone machine-controlling entity. That is why the company can get away with providing a refurbished pentium 4 machine as the control computer since the cpu, memory and graphics requirements must be pretty minimal to just drive the router. In that role as a cnc driver, accessing more than 2 gb of memory and running 64 bit native applications would be of little use (hence no need for 64bit win7). If you want a powerful computer to multitask on while running cutting operations, seems like investing in WinCNC is the safer way to go.

I decided to stick with the basic computer and mach3 for my setup simply because that machine will be a dedicated mach3 machine. No need to expose a more costly CPU to the adverse environment of the shop. I have a separate home built design and surfing computer with win7 64 bit, 8 gig of ram, yada yada....

Richard

[Richard Link]

Richard I will be back there at 8 in the morn.

Lol. Sounds like, from what Jim said, that there is a lot of welding and crating going on over there (weekends included). You can't just open Pandora's box, man, and not take it on the chin.

I did neglect to mention that I also want to see you guys retire to the south of France or something with all your stinger "profits" from enhanced sales....although somehow I doubt that's the way these things work.

Keeping the faith, Joey. Go yellow!

Richard

[Joey Jarrard]

Richard,
Windows 7 is not a problem but I have only heard of bad things when trying a 64 bit system. I do know that WinCNC has spent a good bit of $$ to get 64 bit complient. just staying ahead of the curve. All will have to do it some day.

We may see the thug on the corner pushing 32 bit PC's one day.

[Mick A Martin]

Ok the stinger is finally in my workshop. I plan on using windows XP pro unless I hear from Joey otherwise. I received the WINCNC PCI card along with the WINCNC manual which I have to install into my new computer.

Originally Posted by Joey Jarrard

Mick I would love to see those pics of the new 300lb baby on the changing table.

I don't have the changing table completely ready yet, but here are some pictures











Once I get up and running I will take more pictures.

Mick

[Mike Package]

Aslo an important question: What operating system are you getting on the PC? Mach3/parallel port and 64bit Windows 7 is a no go.

Dennis

This is the main reason I ordered the optional pre-configured PC. When you're itching to make sawdust, the last thing you want to be doing is screwing with software install issues. Speaking for myself, at least...I get enough of that at my day job...

[Joey Jarrard]

Mick you look good in yellow man.

[Guy Mathews]

This is the main reason I ordered the optional pre-configured PC. When you're itching to make sawdust, the last thing you want to be doing is screwing with software install issues. Speaking for myself, at least...I get enough of that at my day job...

Agreed. There is nothing worse the getting a new tool and having to spend a few extra days getting something that you could have gotten right from the company in the beginning.

Out of the box and ready to go is the best way to go!