At 01:01 PM 3/21/2009, you wrote: >On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 06:59 -0400, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote: > > Dunno why I do it, but I force myself every once in a while to click > > on Kirk's link, and have to clean the drool of the keyboard every > > time I do. Nice toyls Kirk! > > > > Mark > > > > At 10:51 PM 3/20/2009, you wrote: > > > > >I would have tried minicom but the machine owner has a Winders laptop. > > > > > >Kirk > > >http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ > >Thank you, Mark. Not allot has changed on the website for a while. It >looks like rain for the next couple of days, maybe I can get some >website work done. I just got some XY ballscrews for the Bridgeport, but >they turned out to be bigger than expected. They are ground screws as >opposed to the rolled screws I have planned for installation. I need to >look at whether these have less backlash and if I can get them to fit, >otherwise they may go back on eBay. I have to make some progress on the >Shizuoka toolchanger, but in getting a design going for the tool >position encoder, CAM (.dxf) and g-code issues came up. It looks like I >am in a question cascade right now. > >I try to visit some other websites to check for updates like Chris', >Anders' and others. I wonder if a list of top ten most active/updated >EMC2 sites would be handy on the web and wiki home pages? >----------------- >Kirk
Aside from the toyl drool factor, I think that would be a good idea. It never hurts to see somebody else's setups while making your own. Even though the machines or the electronics or the motion hardware may not match up, I've gotten plenty of ideas from other folks sites. The machine I'm making will cut tapered bamboo triangle strips for making bamboo fly rods. Not a whole lot of them out there, but I get ideas for making something simpler, or better, by looking at all the different machines that are in progress, working, or whatever. The more pictures the better. I can read all day long on something, but when I see a picture of what was described, the "ah ah!" magic light bulb goes off in my mind. As to the ground vs rolled, I'd always heard the ground ones had better tolerances. That's why they were more expensive. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
