On 13 June 2013 01:21, Kirk Wallace <kwall...@wallacecompany.com> wrote:
> Making the gears and other bits should not take a lot of magic. It > becomes a machining project instead of a software/electronics project. But the result is rather tedious. Have you used a changewheel-only lathe? Having said that, I nearly always feed at the same rate on my cnc lathe, so perhaps it wouldn't be so bad. I do have feed-override there though. The better solution would be to recreate the Norton box, but that looks like a real project. > The ELS controllers I found: > http://www.autoartisans.com/ELS/ > http://www.cnccookbook.com/MTLatheElecLeadMockDocs.htm > > don't need a threading indicator, as far as I can tell. One claims to have electronic half-nut control. Whatever that does. I can't see any way for them to know where you have wound the carriage back to, so I do think a threading indicator is still needed. The second one appears to give very much the same style of working as my LinuxCNC setup. But probably at rather more cost, and rather less extra capability. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
