I just do without the stops so I can do 5 axis on a parallel port :) you can find rotaries with built in tailstock facility although the one I used had poor dividing
Dave Caroline On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Speaker To-Dirt <[email protected]> wrote: > Jon you understand me totally. You knew I'd want to embrace the maximal > complexity and make the problem hard. So what I REALLY need is a tip-tilt 4th > stage, a .... 5 stage system. Am I out of signals on the parallel port? My > computer is off in the shop so I can't check right now, but I'll look into it. > > Which raises a materials question then. Do people have much experience > machining cast iron? I understand steel sings under load and there's no way > Al can take the kind of loads a gear cutter would undergo. Would an Al 'skin' > with a steel 'skeleton' work out? > > Anyone know a cheap source for tailstocks when I would run this thing in > strait rotary stage? > > Andrew > > >> >> But, the lathe may not be the most ideal solution. >> Using gear cutters, >> they will turn in the horizontal plane. To cut >> helical gears, you need >> to have the axis of the A axis inclined relative to the >> horizontal. >> Universal dividing heads have a swivel that allows the axis >> to point up >> or down. Then, the tailstock can be raised or lowered >> to reach the end >> of the arbor. You tilt the A axis to match the helix >> angle. Of course, >> you could mount the lathe on spacer blocks to accomplish >> the same. >> >> Jon > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by > > Make an app they can't live without > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
