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On 2025-02-10, Kirbre, Inc., Canada, the operators of the www-based Onefinity CNC forum forum.onefinitycnc.com, manipulated over sixty forum posts whose author I was to create the impression that I endorse or recommend their new product, the Redline spindle/VFD. In some cases, complex forum posts were completely replaced by the simple statement that you should buy their Redline product, making it appear as if I had written this in the forum (e.g. like shown here ()). This was done against my will. This also happened to other forum participants. Hundreds of forum posts were manipulated to replace "PwnCNC" by "Redline", as if the forum users had written that in the past (even in the lots of old posts when Redline didn't even exist yet)

The purpose of the manipulation seems to have been to remove any mention of the innovative and ingenious Plug-and-play Spindle/VFD product () that Daniel Moran with its PwnCNC () company had created and which he offers for the Onefinity (both for Masso G3 and Buildbotics versions) from all Onefinity forum posts, regardless who the author was, with the obvious intention that forum readers would only buy Onefinity's new spindle/VFD product labeled "Redline" instead, a quasi-clone of Daniel Moran's PwnCNC spindle/vfd product. The Redline product contains the same G-Penny spindle and DELIXI VFD as PwnCNC's original product. Even the WS16 spindle connector that Daniel Moran took so long to find and Daniel's huge development and research work on his VFD enclosure product, VFD wiring and programming knowledge as well as information from PwnCNC web site was taken on by Onefinity without any contribution.

In the past, PwnCNC's plug-and-play spindle/VFD product was explicitly mentioned by Onefinity as an alternative motor variant instead of the Makita hand trim router, and was, although unsupported by them, an official option for Onefinity CNC machines, as you can see here () (from web.archive.org ()). In the last few years, many Onefinity customers ran their Onefinity CNC machine with Daniel Moran's PwnCNC vfd/spindle system with big success and to their great satisfaction, and it was a frequent topic in the Onefinity forum. But when Onefinity one day offered a clone of Daniel's spindle/vfd enclosure product, Onefinity tried to manipulate all these individual postings and discussions and either replaced "PwnCNC" by "Redline", in a way to create the impression that their new clone product called "Redline" had been a forum topic in the past (although it even didn't yet exist). or by simply deleting posts covering the PwnCNC vfd/spindle product. After the manipulation of the Onefinity forum archive was completed, any occurrence of PwnCNC's original spindle/VFD product had vanished.

Furthermore, Onefinity now states that using the PwnCNC spindle/VFD may void the customer's warranty () for their Onefinity CNC machine.

I think you could say that as long as Daniel was providing support to Onefinity's customers, he had Onefinity's goodwill, but when they had learned everything they needed from him to replicate his product and offer it themselves, they threw him away.

Kirbre Inc. did not respond to a request for comment.

I consider such behaviour as an absolute no-go, because manipulating someone's postings this way is a form of identity theft and abuses the confidence that the forum contributors and customers of Onefinity had in the company.

I emphasize that I am in no way affiliated with Kirbre Inc., Onefinity CNC, or Redline, and that I do NOT endorse or recommend the products of these companies.

-- Aiph5u

News update

Update as of 2025-05-20 13h46 CEST

PS: You may be interested in reading this meanwhile deleted thread on the Onefinity CNC forum:

Censorship on the 1F forum – Onefinity CNC Forum ()

Breaking News

Update as of 2025-05-21

Okay folks,

now it's official.

I create dissent within the community!

As if we hadn't always known.

You have been warned!!

Good joke. ROTFL ()

Strange kind of reward for the 4000th unpaid forum contribution ().

What fools, they don't know what they loose.

All this while I have 3500 likes in that forum, and people still writing me e-mails telling me how much my postings helped them and thanking me.

News update

Update as of 2025-05-22 05h14 CEST

PS2: And one more (this one was even more quickly deleted by Onefinity, it seems they don't sleep anymore):

Censorship part 2 – Onefinity CNC Forum ()

Onefinity customers frustrated because of monthes-long backorder

Update as of 2025-05-26

The Onefinity customers seem not to know that the Onefinity “Redline” spindle/VFD system is a quasi-clone of PwnCNC’s spindle/VFD system, you could say a "plagiarized" version of it. Having paid the full amount in advance to Onefinity, they now wait five monthes or more for their Onefinity-“Redline” spindle/VFD, and they don’t know they could have been happily milling with their machine for monthes, if they knew that PwnCNC has the Spindle/VFD System () in stock. And that it's the original. And that PwnCNC have the Rotary Fourth Axis () in stock too!

It was when I had told this to a frustrated Onefinity customer via Onefinity's forum’s private message function, that Onefinity threw me, the most contributing and most-liked forum user (), out of the forum.

I think I was kind of naive, not assuming that the Onefinity admins were reading or scanning private messages...

Aiph5u's CNC Prospects

My next CNC machine will be a DIY one.

Regarding building my own CNC machine, I am heavily inspired by this project (Youtube) () ( →project's homepage ()). Regarding the Aluminium Extrusion profiles (), I have an item24.com shop at Ahrensburg () near to me.

At the moment, I own a Mechatron HFS-8022-24-ER20 () with manual tool change ER20 collet, a Mechatron Cooling Station (), and a Omron MX2 () VFD, which is practically identical to the Hitachi WJ200 (). The latter is now superseded by the Hitachi WJ-C1 (). Like the MX2 and the WJ200, it also has Sensorless Vector Control (SVC) () and can run both asynchronous induction motors () and synchronous (permanent magnet) motors () like the DATRON Syncro spindles () as well (with those, you can mill steel very slowly, go down to 1000 or even 100 rpm, but also fast, up to 40,000 or 34,000 rpm, with the same spindle).

I plan to use the Mechatron ATC-8022-HSK25 () later.

Regarding CNC controllers, I admire the effort of the Buildbotics ()' author Joseph Coffland () for having written a CNC controller from scratch all alone. He is the author of the g-code 3D simulation software Camotics () and what could be more obvious, if you have written a software that evaluates G-code and displays it in 3D, than to write a software that controls the axes of a CNC machine accordingly! The Buildbotics CNC controller is Free and Open Source software () and Free and Open Hardware () (you must know that Onefinity forked () both the Buildbotics software and the hardware and maintain their own version of it).

Nonetheless I think this controller does not meet my professional requirements, it lacks a few features. But as reported by many users, it is nonetheless quite satisfactory for most CNC jobs.

I'm definitely not a friend of proprietary, closed source software and hardware, so the Masso G3 universal CNC controller does not come into question for me, although many users report that they like it and use it successfully. Others prefer the Acorn Centroid universal CNC controller.

I plan to use LinuxCNC which is very evolved today. LinuxCNC () evolved from the NIST ()’s Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC, later emc²) () project (See EMC History ()). It is Free and Open Source software ().

I know that LinuxCNC is just an operating system for a CNC controller and no hardware, but since I know how to build PCs, it's no problem for me.

I plan to build my own CNC controller with a Kontron () (the successor of the Fujitsu-Siemens () factory) PC motherboard made in Germany.

-- Aiph5u