Anders Wallin wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wanted to let everyone know that we have now mounted an encoder on > the spindle motor of our mill and with a little HAL-tweaking it was easy > to get rigid tapping to work. > > There are two videos of M3 tapping and M6 tapping on youtube: > http://www.anderswallin.net/2008/06/rigid-tapping/ > > I'm not sure how many EMCers are doing rigid tapping out there but at > least over here the spirits are high after the first successful tests! Great! I am going to set up my minimill to do some thread drilling in the next day or so. I use these $8 combined drill-taps. I have been doing it on the Bridgeport with a Procunier tapping head, but that is such a long assembly it gets a bit wobbly. Rapidly reversing the big Bridgeport motor is going to be hard on things, and getting an encoder on the spindle looks difficult. I have this little minimill, and have to come up with the right fixturing for the workpiece, but its motor should be able to reverse a lot more easily, and I already have an encoder on it.
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