On Wednesday 20 March 2019 09:50:15 andy pugh wrote: > On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 at 13:00, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> > wrote: > > How gedit ever made it into LinuxCNC as the default editor is > > > immaterial, but when it was found to be a file scrambler it should > > not have taken several years to remove it. > > I think it only ever scrambled files for one user.
Yeah, me. The SOB would pick up 20 lines of a hal file, and insert them in the middle of a different line. 6 or 7 times it did that. Once it took me 2-3 hours a day for a week to find and fix all that just to get the halfile to load, let alone work the way it was. It was in the middle of that, that I went looking for a better editor, and geany, which works a lot like gedit for save & quit, was the editor I've used since. hal is a pretty powerfull language, and stepconfig doesn't begin to explore what hal can do. Throw in that stepconfig can't load and modify an existing halfile that just needs a tweak, and its stepconfig that hasn't been used here in years. The .hal file for this new 6040 just passed 225 lines day before yesterday as I added the code to calibrate the rotary axis, which now that its done, is about 30 LOC that will be commented out forever, or until I buy another rotary table. Its very fast so will probably grow a stronger motor just to get the holding power. I have 2 weak motors, the z motor is the same size as the rotary, and can't begin to match the xy motors for speed, they can both move at 200+ ipm, but the z is locking at around 70 trying to lift the spindle motor. I don't have home switches yet on the linear, its been 6 weeks since I ordered a bag of suitable switches, but nothing has arrived in my mailbox yet. That will grow the hal file a couple lines per switch as I'll dup the home switch on the other end and call them limits. And it looks like I'll have to lower the mounting block for the mister, and buy something different, these I bought are crap, needing 50 psi to prime the pickup to lift 4", and at 50 psi are blowing way more air out of the flex joints than is coming out of the tip when adjusted for maximum lift suction. I've seen you folks quoting 15 psi, but this crap can't lift 1/2" at 15 psi. The shop made on I threw together back in about 2000 when I needed to make a 6" square, 1,5" thick bearing pad to get it away from a worn spot on the shaft, ran and made a heavy fog out of safflower oil, at about 25 psi, while lifting about 15". But its been laid away and I can't find it now. Which is why I've asked two or 3 times where you guys are buying your misters? Nozzle design rules, and these were not made for limited air use by a long shot. Youtube has lots of videos of guys making their own, but no real plans. Looking at this one, the internal fluid jet is in the squared off end of a 1/8" diameter rod, and my thinking is that it ought to be stuck in a pencil sharpener just to get the high speed air closer to the drilled hole, which is IMO, about 3x bigger than it should be. But looking into the adjustable tip from the back, its step drilled, not cone shaped, so can't be adjusted correctly anyway. Ditto the needle valve in the mounting block, it can't begin to restrict the flow once primed. Very poorly made crap. Its looking as if I'll have to run an air line back to the fluid tank and pressurize the whole thing just to fix the priming issue. As a pressure container, I'm eyeing an 8 oz coke bottle with its screw on lid and some homemade fittings. I've got the weed eater fuel lines I used for ball nut lube on the old hf mill, but no clue how much pressure that stuff can take isn't known. Other solutions, suggestions about misting welcome. Thanks everybody. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
