On Mar 28 2016 5:14 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 28 March 2016 15:49:49 andy pugh wrote: > >> On 28 March 2016 at 20:31, Neil Whelchel <neilwhelc...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> > When the machine is doing a spindle synchronized operation such >> > as tapping, this causes the motion sync to be broken as well as >> the >> > tap! >> >> Does motion.feed-inhibit sound like what you need? >> http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/man/man9/motion.9.html > > Butting in here, not sure Andy. It seems to me the ideal situation > would > be to just shut the spindle down, while NOT unlocking the axis that > was > slaved to it, which might save the tap AND allow hand applied power > in > reverse to unscrew the tap from the hole with the machine still > following the tap back out of the hole. The chances of restarting the > operation to finish that hole are somewhere between slim and .00001% > unless the starting point is saved and can be run back to, which I > don't > believe is the case now as its forgotten at the end of each run with > the > current code anyway, but the tap may be saved. Perhaps this starting > point save might be part of this GSOC G33.1 improvement project?
To me saving the part from a broken tap is typically worth more than the cost of the tap. But in either case, a fail safe would be preferred. > ... > > I received some ER20 collets from China today, but the package > labeled as > haveing 10 ea 1/8" collets in it, had 10 collets in it, but they were > all 3/8' and I already had several of those that I've little or no > use > for since I don't own 15 ea 3/8 drill bits. :) Anybody need any 3/8" > ER20's? :) I assume a language barrier. I'll check on ebay & see if > I > can get it fixed. Or just re-order perhaps as I do need another > handfull of 1/8" collets in any event. I will have to check the collet type on the CNC router, but if it is a ER20, I would be willing to buy two or more off you. Do check with ebay first... EBo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785471&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
