Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-11 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 18:21:56 -0400, you wrote: On Monday 10 March 2014 18:19:45 jeremy youngs did opine: gene , have a go at this http://precisionparts.wmberg.com/timingBeltsChains I am thinking I need a 5mm pitch, 9.5mm wide, 72 cogs long, but they only go up to 3mm pitch. If it's a Sieg

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 March 2014 06:06:32 Steve Blackmore did opine: On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 18:21:56 -0400, you wrote: On Monday 10 March 2014 18:19:45 jeremy youngs did opine: gene , have a go at this http://precisionparts.wmberg.com/timingBeltsChains I am thinking I need a 5mm pitch, 9.5mm wide,

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-11 Thread John Kasunich
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014, at 11:09 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Damn John, I just counted it twice more and got 31 both times. At a top of the tooth diameter of 1.803, where the heck does that leave us/me? The smaller driver pulley, is .976 across the top of the teeth, and 17 teeth, .388

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-11 Thread samco
In our first attempt to make the spindle encoder for the KT - we grabbed a timing gear that we had 2 of.. (Something from some old printers we took apart (70's vintage probably). Well - when we got all done we could not find a belt to match the pitch. We gave up and used different timing

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-11 Thread John Kasunich
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Re: [Emc-users] OT: Growing old [Was: Re: Need longer belt]

2014-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 March 2014 11:40:24 Erik Christiansen did opine: On 11.03.14 07:16, Gene Heskett wrote: Then the MRI they took on my lower back Friday is so bad they may as well just take me out and shoot me. Don't get old guys, its not for wimps but the back pain is turning me into one

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-11 Thread Jon Elson
On 03/11/2014 08:27 AM, John Kasunich wrote: OK, math done. The pitch comes out to 0.1855, which has me mystified, because I've never heard of such a thing. (I've done a fair bit if tooth- belt research for different projects.) Well, 5 mm is ~ .197, so maybe accounting for the pitch

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-11 Thread Jon Elson
On 03/11/2014 08:48 AM, sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: In our first attempt to make the spindle encoder for the KT - we grabbed a timing gear that we had 2 of.. (Something from some old printers we took apart (70's vintage probably). Well - when we got all done we could not find a belt to

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 March 2014 12:29:32 John Kasunich did opine: On Mon, Mar 10, 2014, at 11:09 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Damn John, I just counted it twice more and got 31 both times. At a top of the tooth diameter of 1.803, where the heck does that leave us/me? The smaller driver pulley,

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 March 2014 13:25:43 John Kasunich did opine: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png Chuckle. But how old is that? we must have at least 20 by now. Cheers, Gene -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order.

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 March 2014 13:28:53 Jon Elson did opine: On 03/11/2014 08:27 AM, John Kasunich wrote: OK, math done. The pitch comes out to 0.1855, which has me mystified, because I've never heard of such a thing. (I've done a fair bit if tooth- belt research for different projects.)

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-11 Thread andy pugh
On 11 March 2014 17:17, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: From SPI-SC, about $175 a set in metal what I assume is kevlar belt backing. In XL format. The bores are a hair odd, and it would be the first time they ever broached a 4mm key in a 10mm bore for the top pulley. No need to broach

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 March 2014 13:45:31 andy pugh did opine: On 11 March 2014 17:17, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: From SPI-SC, about $175 a set in metal what I assume is kevlar belt backing. In XL format. The bores are a hair odd, and it would be the first time they ever broached a

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-11 Thread John Kasunich
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014, at 12:41 PM, Jon Elson wrote: On 03/11/2014 08:27 AM, John Kasunich wrote: OK, math done. The pitch comes out to 0.1855, which has me mystified, because I've never heard of such a thing. (I've done a fair bit if tooth- belt research for different projects.)

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 March 2014 14:05:05 John Kasunich did opine: On Tue, Mar 11, 2014, at 12:41 PM, Jon Elson wrote: On 03/11/2014 08:27 AM, John Kasunich wrote: OK, math done. The pitch comes out to 0.1855, which has me mystified, because I've never heard of such a thing. (I've done a

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-11 Thread Jeff
Hi,   Is there a set of instructions on how to upgrade?       The MachineKit I have does show 363.67 MIPS with a cat /proc/cpuinfo   I tried the instructions here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?XenomaiKernelPackages   and got stuck.  Apparently I'm not setting CODENAME properly

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 3/11/2014 1:08 PM, Jeff wrote: Hi, Is there a set of instructions on how to upgrade? The MachineKit I have does show 363.67 MIPS with a cat /proc/cpuinfo I tried the instructions here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?XenomaiKernelPackages and got stuck.

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-11 Thread andy pugh
On 11 March 2014 17:46, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: I took an entirely diffferent approach on my 9x40: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Ilc3m7J-FIGIoLXQTOYqcdMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink That didn't seem to be the right pix Andy. ? It's the right picture. I dispensed

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-11 Thread andy pugh
On 11 March 2014 18:07, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: So in the long view, I may as well give sdp-sc a call confirm the ugly details give them a card number. Why not buy pilot-bore pulleys and modify to suit? It would be easier with a working lathe, though not _that_ much easier as

[Emc-users] BBB and LCD 7

2014-03-11 Thread Condit Alan
I had a 7” LCD cape on order from Mouser for several months and finally gave up and cancelled the order. Does anyone have any suggestions for a good 7” LCD touch screen to use with the BBB and LinuxCNC? Alan -- Learn

Re: [Emc-users] BBB and LCD 7

2014-03-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 3/11/2014 3:35 PM, Condit Alan wrote: I had a 7” LCD cape on order from Mouser for several months and finally gave up and cancelled the order. Does anyone have any suggestions for a good 7” LCD touch screen to use with the BBB and LinuxCNC? I have a couple of the inexpensive HDMI input

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 March 2014 18:47:15 andy pugh did opine: On 11 March 2014 18:07, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: So in the long view, I may as well give sdp-sc a call confirm the ugly details give them a card number. Why not buy pilot-bore pulleys and modify to suit? It would be

Re: [Emc-users] Noob advice

2014-03-11 Thread andy pugh
On 12 March 2014 00:01, DeeEmm dee...@deeemm.com wrote: At the moment I'm trying to get my head around the workflow for using the machine in dual configuration You probably just want to create two different configs in Stepconf and start whichever is most suitable for the job at hand. So far

Re: [Emc-users] BBB and LCD 7

2014-03-11 Thread Charles Buckley
I am using a lilliput 7 inch, but that is on x86. Not sure about the touch drivers on BBB. I tried modifying gaxis for gscreen, but it was hit or miss in terms of functionality. It would drop into a weird state where it would not home because it thought it was homing an axis. On Tue, Mar 11,

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-11 Thread Jeff
Hi,   Got it!  Thanks.  It is now at 990.68 MIPS with the newer kernel.   If anyone else gives this a try, for some reason I had to un tar the dtbs file with a suffix tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz --no-same-owner without the --no-same-owner I was getting 'ownership' errors. Jeff  

[Emc-users] Noob advice

2014-03-11 Thread DeeEmm
Hi all. I have been putting together a CNC over the past months or so and am just about to get into the nitty gritty of getting the control system put together. Being familiar with Linux and Ubuntu I'm very keen to use LinuxCNC as the control system and am now looking into what I need to do to

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 3/11/2014 7:23 PM, Jeff wrote: Hi, Got it! Thanks. It is now at 990.68 MIPS with the newer kernel. If anyone else gives this a try, for some reason I had to un tar the dtbs file with a suffix tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz --no-same-owner without the --no-same-owner I was

[Emc-users] ADNS-9800 optical sensor

2014-03-11 Thread Ralph Stirling
I'm interested in using an optical mouse sensor in a position feedback application. Older sensor designs often had quadrature A/B signals, but the newer sensors like the ADNS-9800 have an SPI interface. I have found a place that seems to have one of these devices for sale, mounted to a circuit

Re: [Emc-users] ADNS-9800 optical sensor

2014-03-11 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Wed, 12 Mar 2014, Ralph Stirling wrote: Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 02:27:01 + From: Ralph Stirling ralph.stirl...@wallawalla.edu Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-11 Thread Jon Elson
On 03/11/2014 07:57 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: On 3/11/2014 7:23 PM, Jeff wrote: Hi, Got it! Thanks. It is now at 990.68 MIPS with the newer kernel. So, what is going on with the older machinekit installs? Do they actually not run the CPU at rated speed? I did notice that some

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 3/11/2014 10:45 PM, Jon Elson wrote: On 03/11/2014 07:57 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: On 3/11/2014 7:23 PM, Jeff wrote: Hi, Got it! Thanks. It is now at 990.68 MIPS with the newer kernel. So, what is going on with the older machinekit installs? Do they actually not run the

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Growing old [Was: Re: Need longer belt]

2014-03-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On 3/11/2014 10:27 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: But, there are also arterial plaques in the aorta an inch away that do not want to be disturbed for obvious reasons. Start popping Coenzyme Q10 aka CoQ10, Qunol brand. My 75 year old father takes that and it's helped a lot, especially after a triple

Re: [Emc-users] ADNS-9800 optical sensor

2014-03-11 Thread Joseph Chiu
That's a nice item since it comes with the lens. I started down the path of making a paper flow detector using one of the ADNS sensors many years ago, but got hung up on being able to get a suitable lens for the particular application. Just make sure that the lens works in the geometry you have