I think I would dial in a hole or a boss with a test indicator. Write down the xy coordinates. Run a probe routine to determine where the probe says the hole/boss is. Calculate the error. Write the error on a sticky pad. Stick the sticky pad on the control face and use those values to set xy when you probe a feature on a part. You would only needing orient the probe the same way each time. Then the error between the probe tip and the spindle center line would not be important. Maybe I haven't followed your discussion accurately but if you would have a problem with the wires using Ken's procedure how would you handle spinning the spindle at 100 rpm or more? Thanks Stuart
On Fri, Mar 1, 2019, 11:09 PM Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On Friday 01 March 2019 21:10:35 Jon Elson wrote: > > > On 03/01/2019 05:03 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I just hooked mine up, pretty bad, and so eccentric, around .125" of > > > wobble at the ball > > > > Doesn't it have some screws to center it? Mine has 4 radial > > setscrews that center the probe body on the arbor. I > > tweaked them until I got a consistent reading when turning > > the probe in 90 degree steps. > > > > Jon > > Not that I've found, Jon. its made of pretty clear plastic castings and > has 3 posts sticking out of the bottom of the plastic body, with > adjusting nuts so the 3 armed plastic web holding the probe itself can > be tilted, and in tilting it one could center the ball for very low > runout. Kenneths idea of an arm so it could be rotated 180 degrees and > an average runout be determined sounds like a good idea, but I'd like to > see how Kenneth arranged his stops, which I think should be magnetic so > the wires couldn't drag it off whichever stop it was stuck to. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-developers mailing list > > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
