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

2023-05-05 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
> > 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

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

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

2023-05-01 Thread Thomas J Powderly
Thanks for the links and for FFox, it can ask save or open with (some  app to view the .wmv) So I just  open with VLC likely MPV and Parole can view wmv also tomp thx Jogn Jon and Stuart ___ Emc-developers mailing list

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

2023-05-01 Thread Greg C
In the spirit of being helpful, making this as easy as possible, and saving people from ~500Mb of downloads, I put them on my youtube unlisted (anyone with the links below can see them). Here are the links: Stevenson: https://youtu.be/17dF8cYcYDs Stevenson2: https://youtu.be/Tffo8J8XhQE If

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

2023-05-01 Thread Sam Sokolik
downloading them first probably is the best solution... On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 7:15 PM gene heskett wrote: > On 5/1/23 19:37, John Allwine wrote: > > I used VLC to view them. > > > >> On May 1, 2023, at 5:02 PM, gene heskett wrote: > >> > >> On 5/1/23 17:25, John Allwine wrote: > >>> Hi

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

2023-05-01 Thread gene heskett
On 5/1/23 19:37, John Allwine wrote: I used VLC to view them. On May 1, 2023, at 5:02 PM, gene heskett wrote: On 5/1/23 17:25, John Allwine wrote: Hi everyone, Jon sent them over to me and I've uploaded them here: https://demos.pentamachine.com/linuxcnc/stevenson.wmv

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

2023-05-01 Thread John Allwine
I used VLC to view them. > On May 1, 2023, at 5:02 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > On 5/1/23 17:25, John Allwine wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> Jon sent them over to me and I've uploaded them here: >> https://demos.pentamachine.com/linuxcnc/stevenson.wmv >>

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

2023-05-01 Thread gene heskett
On 5/1/23 17:25, John Allwine wrote: Hi everyone, Jon sent them over to me and I've uploaded them here: https://demos.pentamachine.com/linuxcnc/stevenson.wmv https://demos.pentamachine.com/linuxcnc/stevenson2.wmv I don't think this is a great permanent spot for them, but I imagine they can sit

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

2023-05-01 Thread John Allwine
Hi everyone, Jon sent them over to me and I've uploaded them here: https://demos.pentamachine.com/linuxcnc/stevenson.wmv https://demos.pentamachine.com/linuxcnc/stevenson2.wmv I don't think this is a great permanent spot for them, but I imagine they can sit here for a while. -John On Wed, Apr

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

2023-04-26 Thread Greg C
I think we’d all like to see them (and I don’t even know what “them” entails). Can they be uploaded to YouTube or something? -Greg On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 8:49 PM Stuart Stevenson wrote: > I sent Jon copies. He can give them to anyone he wishes. I will give them > to anyone that asks. >

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

2023-04-26 Thread Stuart Stevenson
I sent Jon copies. He can give them to anyone he wishes. I will give them to anyone that asks. regards Stuart On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 2:53 PM Bari wrote: > Looks like it might be Jon Elson's PC showing a 5-axis machine video by > Stuart Stevenson. > > I believe that Stuart took his "youtubes"

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

2023-04-26 Thread Bari
Looks like it might be Jon Elson's PC showing a 5-axis machine video by Stuart Stevenson. I believe that Stuart took his "youtubes" down. Maybe someone has copies to share. On 4/26/23 13:57, John Allwine wrote: Hi all, Thanks for the great weekend! It was nice to be able to put faces to

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

2023-04-26 Thread John Allwine
Hi all, Thanks for the great weekend! It was nice to be able to put faces to all the names I see in the commits and forums. I forget who was showing it, but I was hoping to get the video of the big 5-axis machine that was rigged up with dial indicators. I snapped a picture of it (see here,