Re: [Emc-users] A Bit OT, turning 4140

2012-02-15 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:48:30 -0600, you wrote: Heating with the welder is my last resort. The shaft isn't mine, it's one of the local farmers, and if I can't fix it tonight, the local farm supply wants nearly 2 grand for a new one, with overnight shipping. I was expecting to have this

Re: [Emc-users] Encoder wheel [Was: Need advice on 1/16 end mill]

2012-02-15 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 05:03:54 AM Roland Jollivet did opine: On 15 February 2012 06:13, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:11:18 PM doug metzler did opine: I don't know either, but I would think the black stuff would block almost 100%, esp at

Re: [Emc-users] Encoder wheel [Was: Need advice on 1/16 end mill]

2012-02-15 Thread charles green
color some notecard stock black with a sharpie, then spray paint it black to stiffen it more.  or laminate several thicknesses of thin black cloth with black resin of some sort (jb weld is kinda blackish), then paint that black.  or, put a bunch of staples on the circumference of a dowel, clip

Re: [Emc-users] Encoder wheel [Was: Need advice on 1/16 end mill]

2012-02-15 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 06:35:36 AM charles green did opine: get a CD that you dont want to listen to anymore, and cnc it out of that. and then paint it black. Now that might be (the old cd) a usable idea. I probably bin a 50 pack a year of those, old data distro's going obsolete

Re: [Emc-users] Feature request

2012-02-15 Thread andy pugh
On 14 February 2012 21:43, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Would it be possible to expand the tool table by one more boolean value Only at the cost of a couple of tool entries, as I understand it. -- atp The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth is, quite simply, wrong.

Re: [Emc-users] Encoder wheel [Was: Need advice on 1/16 end mill]

2012-02-15 Thread Roland Jollivet
On 15 February 2012 13:45, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 06:35:36 AM charles green did opine: get a CD that you dont want to listen to anymore, and cnc it out of that. and then paint it black. Now that might be (the old cd) a usable idea. I

Re: [Emc-users] A Bit OT, turning 4140

2012-02-15 Thread Mark Cason
On 02/15/2012 02:26 AM, Steve Blackmore wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:48:30 -0600, you wrote: Heating with the welder is my last resort. The shaft isn't mine, it's one of the local farmers, and if I can't fix it tonight, the local farm supply wants nearly 2 grand for a new one, with

Re: [Emc-users] Encoder wheel [Was: Need advice on 1/16 end mill]

2012-02-15 Thread kqt4at5v
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, gene heskett wrote: On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 06:35:36 AM charles green did opine: get a CD that you dont want to listen to anymore, and cnc it out of that. and then paint it black. Now that might be (the old cd) a usable idea. I probably bin a 50 pack a year

Re: [Emc-users] Encoder wheel [Was: Need advice on 1/16 end mill]

2012-02-15 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 12:21:07 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine: On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, gene heskett wrote: On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 06:35:36 AM charles green did opine: get a CD that you dont want to listen to anymore, and cnc it out of that. and then paint it black.

[Emc-users] Encoder wheel [Was: Need advice on 1/16 end mill]

2012-02-15 Thread Roland Jollivet
On 15 February 2012 19:17, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 11:23:55 AM Roland Jollivet did opine: On 15 February 2012 13:45, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 06:35:36 AM charles green did opine: get a CD that

Re: [Emc-users] Encoder wheel [Was: Need advice on 1/16 end mill]

2012-02-15 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 01:02:51 PM Roland Jollivet did opine: Have you seen this; http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1527 Might be of use. Regards Roland Looks as if it could be so I pulled it, thanks Roland. Cheers, Gene -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of

Re: [Emc-users] Need advice on 1/16 end mill

2012-02-15 Thread Jon Elson
gene heskett wrote: And the guy you bought it from claimed very little wear I'll bet... No, no, they were honest that it was beat, it was the last one at a HUGE auction after everybody had taken the good stuff. But, it was a SMALL machine, significantly smaller than J-head Bridgeports,

Re: [Emc-users] Encoder wheel [Was: Need advice on 1/16 end mill]

2012-02-15 Thread dave
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:26:20 -0500 gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 12:21:07 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine: On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, gene heskett wrote: On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 06:35:36 AM charles green did opine: get a CD that you dont

Re: [Emc-users] Need advice on 1/16 end mill

2012-02-15 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 02:47:30 PM Jon Elson did opine: gene heskett wrote: And the guy you bought it from claimed very little wear I'll bet... No, no, they were honest that it was beat, it was the last one at a HUGE auction after everybody had taken the good stuff. But, it was

Re: [Emc-users] Encoder wheel [Was: Need advice on 1/16 end mill]

2012-02-15 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 02:51:33 PM dave did opine: On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:26:20 -0500 gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 12:21:07 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine: On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, gene heskett wrote: On Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Re: [Emc-users] A Bit OT, turning 4140

2012-02-15 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:59:26 -0600, you wrote: The cold chisel trick was the first thing I tried, and when I broke the cold chisel, I started looking for another way to get it off, The second thing I tried, was my jury rigged press, but it didn't budge it. That's when I mounted it in the

Re: [Emc-users] Encoder wheel [Was: Need advice on 1/16 end mill]

2012-02-15 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:45:34 -0500, you wrote: On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 06:35:36 AM charles green did opine: get a CD that you dont want to listen to anymore, and cnc it out of that. and then paint it black. Now that might be (the old cd) a usable idea. I probably bin a 50 pack a

[Emc-users] intel smi

2012-02-15 Thread Erik Friesen
I was working with disabling the smi on my machine, and got it working. However, one thing I notice, is that when I run the latency test, that the smi disabler doesn't seem to load. It only loads when I actually run emc. Is this by design, or am I missing something here? I'd like to improve my

Re: [Emc-users] Encoder wheel [Was: Need advice on 1/16 end mill]

2012-02-15 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 04:04:27 PM Steve Blackmore did opine: On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:45:34 -0500, you wrote: On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 06:35:36 AM charles green did opine: get a CD that you dont want to listen to anymore, and cnc it out of that. and then paint it black.

Re: [Emc-users] intel smi

2012-02-15 Thread andy pugh
On 15 February 2012 21:27, Erik Friesen e...@aercon.net wrote: I was working with disabling the smi on my machine, and got it working. However, one thing I notice, is that when I run the latency test, that the smi disabler doesn't seem to load.  It only loads when I actually run emc. Is this

Re: [Emc-users] intel smi

2012-02-15 Thread Erik Friesen
Ok, that was it apparently. Even with it enabled, I get 25000 blips, which don't makes sense to me. Its a p4 at 3.0 ghz with hyper thread disabled, software 3d, etc. I suppose I could try a pci graphics card over the pci express card. When I enabled hardware 3d, I got latencies in the 200K

Re: [Emc-users] A Bit OT, turning 4140

2012-02-15 Thread Mark Cason
On 02/15/2012 02:30 PM, Steve Blackmore wrote: On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:59:26 -0600, you wrote: The cold chisel trick was the first thing I tried, and when I broke the cold chisel, I started looking for another way to get it off, The second thing I tried, was my jury rigged press, but it

Re: [Emc-users] Encoder wheel [Was: Need advice on 1/16 end mill]

2012-02-15 Thread Mark Cason
On 02/15/2012 01:45 PM, dave wrote: On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:26:20 -0500 gene heskettghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 12:21:07 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine: On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, gene heskett wrote: A hardrive disk? Glass? That doesn't sound like it would be

Re: [Emc-users] intel smi

2012-02-15 Thread Erik Friesen
Can anyone give me some pointers on X server, if 10.04 uses it, or more information on how to do what is hinted to here - http://rtai.dk/cgi-bin/gratiswiki.pl?Latency_Killer On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Erik Friesen e...@aercon.net wrote: Ok, that was it apparently. Even with it enabled, I

Re: [Emc-users] intel smi

2012-02-15 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 15.02.12 20:24, Erik Friesen wrote: Can anyone give me some pointers on X server, if 10.04 uses it, or more information on how to do what is hinted to here - http://rtai.dk/cgi-bin/gratiswiki.pl?Latency_Killer Pretty much every linux/unix distro uses X11, and so has an X server. See

[Emc-users] Pengingat: Kurniadi mengundang kamu ke Twoo

2012-02-15 Thread Kurniadi via Twoo
Saya menemukan cara asyik dan eksklusif untuk bertemu kenalan baru online: Twoo.com. Hai there, Sekedar kabar bahwa teman kamu Kurniadi asyik bertemu dengan kenalan baru di Twoo. Ayo gabung! Salin/rekat tautan berikut ke

Re: [Emc-users] Pengingat: Kurniadi mengundang kamu ke Twoo

2012-02-15 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, February 16, 2012 02:27:45 AM Jan de Kruyf did opine: hallo, who let this one in the door? j Beats me Jan. I fed it to Spamassassin for training here. :) Cheers, Gene -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that

Re: [Emc-users] Encoder wheel [Was: Need advice on 1/16 end mill]

2012-02-15 Thread andy pugh
On 15 February 2012 21:29, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Gene - the encoder wheel I use is 3mm Tufnol sheet, painted black. The plastic, except for temporary fitting wouldn't do for permanent as it will be trapped between the spindle preload nut, and it's locking nut in normal