On Nov 6, 2012, at 6:15 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 6 November 2012 13:06, John Thornton <[email protected]> wrote: >> Depending on the thickness you might not have enough speed to make a >> clean cut. It would cut at any speed but might be fugly. On my >> Hypertherm 1250 for example with the fine cut consumables mounted the >> cut speeds vary from 2286 mm/min to 3174 mm/min for 3.4mm down to 0.6mm >> steel. > > I am getting rather ahead of myself here, as the machine has yet to > move under its own power, but with 750W motors and 5mm ballscrew pitch > I might well be able to get up to that sort of speed. > The travels are rather small, but possibly still useful.
And, of course he could go to high lead ballscrews if needed. I just ordered a 32mm with 32mm lead, and a 25mm with 25mm lead... I think ballscrews are generally available up to the diameter of the ballscrew. Cheers, Jeshua Lacock Founder/Engineer 3DTOPO Incorporated <http://3DTOPO.com> Phone: 208.462.4171 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
