Gene Heskett wrote: > I don't have that on the mill, very limited space to install, and a very > dirty environment inside the gear case. Lots of flying grease. Which > doesn't help, and may hinder because grease deteriorates some plastics, > I've lost the hubs out of 2 of those "nylon" gears now. > > Just one of the reasons why that mill may yet get replaced to a grizzly > go704. > Well, I used some gear tooth sensors that are made to go inside a car transmission, so they are heat and lube-resistant. Of course, they need ferrous gears. On my mini-mill, I mounted the spindle encoder outside the head, see the last picture here : http://pico-systems.com/minimill.html
As for the Bridgeport encoder contraption, see http://pico-systems.com/bridge_spindle.html for a description of the gear tooth sensors and how I installed them. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
