On Friday 08 March 2013 11:31:49 andy pugh did opine: > On 8 March 2013 04:47, Igor Chudov <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had a disagreement with my employee today. I said that a retrofitted > > CNC milling machine, like my Bridgeport Interact, is supremely useful > > as a shop tool, but a CNC lathe has very little usefulness > > I use my CNC lathe far more often than the CNC mill. > Maybe I make a disproportionate number of round things, or maybe it is > because as a kid we always had a lathe but no mill. > > I even like to use the lathe to square up stock. > > It helps that my lathe is set up with some simple macros so no > programming is needed: > http://www.bodgesoc.org/lathe/lathe.html
Thats sweet & very handy, Andy. I'll see if I can make room for my spindle tach display too. It occupies the upper 2" of that area now. Thanks for that writeup. > Though I wouldn't do it that way if I was doing it now, I would use > ngcgui. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style. -- Ian Jackson I was taught to respect my elders, but its getting harder and harder to find any... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
