At 06:08 PM 5/21/2010, you wrote: >Thats not what you sent, there, each inch was a -0.022" z move for each move >I commented out in the first section, then it switched to -0.030 till it hit >the straight section. Obviously this is test code, and I'm being a picky old >fool. The teacher mode kicks in and I can't help myself.
Ach, ya... I see what you are saying now. I copied the coords from a program output that dealt with the tapers on 5" centers and it interpolates the dimensions in between. This will be the odd case. Most of the tapers I have were designed on 1" centers and don't follow such nice even tapers between the 5" centers... Doh! > >>> That's what the rod taper is based on. I'm using a 2" lead in and a 2" > >A very wee bit. It compresses down and there's little or no give. The > >vacuum pump is a piston driven one, not one a them funky little vane > >ones. Powerful sucker, so to speak... ;-) > >So is the one I mentioned. It could pull a vacuum good enough to make a poor >vacuum tube amplifier. Kewl. How many CFM is yours? > >>> I'm just air cutting right now. I'll to take some video on my digital > >>> camera this afteroon and then try to figger how to post it online. > >That sounds cool. I think most of us would like to see how long a machine >you have built as for fine fly rods in say 3 pieces, my imagination says you >would need the two butt pieces to be around 4 feet each, so thats a 60" X >machine. Yep. The bed itself is 6 1/2 feet long. I can cut up to a 53" long strip. Most of the rods I make are 8' and under, and most of those are two piece rods. Anything longer and they're usually a three piece rod. I work with the hex shaped bamboo rods typically, but the design of this machine allows me to cut the other cross sections (penta, quad, and others) by a simple rotation of the cutter heads. In the Hex cross-section there are six strips that make up each completed rod section. I've been hand planing each of those 6 strips per section - butt and 2 tips for a total of 18 strips. Usually takes me about 45 minutes to an hour per strip. At the feeds and speeds I'll be working with on the machine, I should be able to crank out a strip every couple minutes. Nice little time saver... Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
