Re: [Emc-developers] 5-axis video at Tormach meet up

2023-05-02 Thread gene heskett
On 5/2/23 14:17, gene heskett wrote: On 5/2/23 12:47, andy pugh wrote: Did anybody get the tarball I made of the machine that has the homing problem? Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."

Re: [Emc-developers] 5-axis video at Tormach meet up

2023-05-02 Thread gene heskett
On 5/2/23 12:47, andy pugh wrote: On Tue, 2 May 2023 at 17:22, gene heskett wrote: They were nominally 5/8" OD with external return tubes, no flange or threads, just a bare cylinder with returns Sounds like an "RSK" nut: https://www.gtenballscrew.com/Page/Product/ProductList.aspx Which

Re: [Emc-developers] 5-axis video at Tormach meet up

2023-05-02 Thread Eric Keller
On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 12:52 PM Stuart Stevenson wrote: > > What moved EMC from Windows to Linux? > thanks > Stuart > Real time windows is expensive and RTLinux showed up about that time. RTAI showed up a little later, when RTLinux went commercial. I had some real time windows-based equipment,

Re: [Emc-developers] 5-axis video at Tormach meet up

2023-05-02 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Heh - They told me the Venturecom was an entire operating system that ran the Windows system for the GUI as an application. My thought was Windows on top of Windows - what could possibly go wrong? Later we had a couple small Cinci horizontals with Cinci's windows based control. Very difficult to

Re: [Emc-developers] 5-axis video at Tormach meet up

2023-05-02 Thread andy pugh
On Tue, 2 May 2023 at 17:22, gene heskett wrote: They were nominally 5/8" OD with external return tubes, no flange or > threads, just a bare cylinder with returns Sounds like an "RSK" nut: https://www.gtenballscrew.com/Page/Product/ProductList.aspx Which seems to be given the "0825" code. As

Re: [Emc-developers] 5-axis video at Tormach meet up

2023-05-02 Thread gene heskett
On 5/2/23 08:56, andy pugh wrote: On Tue, 2 May 2023 at 13:50, gene heskett wrote: have spent lots of time on the net, looking for more screws of that size, 8mm I believe, but have come up empty. Just search for "0802 ballscrew". They even sell them on Amazon.

Re: [Emc-developers] 5-axis video at Tormach meet up

2023-05-02 Thread andy pugh
On Tue, 2 May 2023 at 13:50, gene heskett wrote: have spent lots of time on the net, looking for more screws of that > size, 8mm I believe, but have come up empty. Just search for "0802 ballscrew". They even sell them on Amazon.

Re: [Emc-developers] 5-axis video at Tormach meet up

2023-05-02 Thread matt
On 2023-05-02 06:59, Stuart Stevenson wrote: We put MDSI's OpenCNC control on it. We installed OpenCNC on 3 hydrotels. OpenCNC ran on QNX then. MDSI changed to offer OpenCNC on Venturecom's Windows operating system only. I searched for a control running on something other than Windows and

Re: [Emc-developers] 5-axis video at Tormach meet up

2023-05-02 Thread gene heskett
On 5/2/23 08:00, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Hi, The blue Cinci was built in the 50's as a 40 inch X 120 inch hydrotel. In the early 80's Cincinnati began purchasing the castings from the used market. They installed ball screws and the gimbal head to create the 5 axis machine. Circa 1997 we bought

Re: [Emc-developers] 5-axis video at Tormach meet up

2023-05-02 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Hi, The blue Cinci was built in the 50's as a 40 inch X 120 inch hydrotel. In the early 80's Cincinnati began purchasing the castings from the used market. They installed ball screws and the gimbal head to create the 5 axis machine. Circa 1997 we bought the machine from a local Wichita shop. It

Re: [Emc-developers] 5-axis video at Tormach meet up

2023-05-02 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
What a nice machine, I remember there were videos of it on the LCNC site a while ago. I'm curious about the manufacture year of this machine and also if this came with hydraulic servo actuators and if so are they still being used with LCNC? I remember a guy who retrofitted an internal grinding