Have you heard of the ATC bit changer

MillMage Hardware Compatibility
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I was watching a video on this from the manufacturer. Has this been tested with MM? Would any questions about this really go under MM hardware?

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Can you share what ATC you are talking about? ATC is a pretty common acronym for Automatic tool changer and there’s a bunch of companies coming out with them.

It will be heavily dependent on your firmware more than MillMage though. We just make a tool change call. If you have an atc setup it will be in your firmware to know how to deal with it.

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RapidChange - here’s a link to Youtube https://youtu.be/uGgq2azfTl0?si=itdV6oP5eQH09qgj

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We’ve absolutely heard of the RapidChange and are following SparksTech on Youtube. He’s also active on the forum here! @Sparky_YYC

He did post this video a few days ago, where he managed to get a toolchange macro working in MillMage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpT7ZCRCcWg

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I can confirm that the RapidChange ATC does in fact work great with MillMage. I was actually just going to do a video of the software setup for just such a setup.

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New video of my settings in MillMage
Using MillMage with the RapidChange ATC

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I’m perplexed how they avoid cross-threading repeatedly?

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From the video, do I understand correctly, there is a chuck per bit? Are theu sold separat or come with the ATC?

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Basically the part that hold the nut is sitting on a spring so any slight tilt in the planes between the spindle shaft and nut can be adjusted for.
I am sure if you mount the magazine very tilted in any one direction there might be issues but so far so good for me. I have had over 150 if not more successful changes across a number of different nut types loading many different bits and collet sizes.

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Your videos made me cry because I am on a fixed income and can’t buy a setup like yours! Thanks for sharing the how-to.