Chris Morley wrote: > >>> Head weight is the preload? Not always realistic when pushing on a drill >>> bit >>> to bore a hole. The hole won't be quite as deep as you told emc to do in >>> that case. >> Sorry, I don't know what "head weight is the preload" means. I'm still >> very new to this and I'm sure I'm doing a million things wrong. >> >> Andy >> > > He means you are using the weight of the head to stay on one > side of the backlash. But if you machine down That may overcome > the weight of the head and then you are not exactly where EMC > thinks you are.
OK, thanks. Makes sense. I don't think the weight of my z-axis is enough to not require backlash compensation because it definitely made an improvement to what I was measuring with a dial indicator. Andy -- Andy PGP Key ID: 0xDC1B5864 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
