On Monday 05 May 2014 00:47:34 Gregg Eshelman did opine: > On 5/4/2014 9:14 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Today, after fighting with it yesterday and putting in nearly 10 thou > > of x taper in 2.25" of Z travel before I got anywhere near a straight > > turn, using a dremel 1.5" diamond wheel for a cutting tool, then I > > wrote a similar bit of code to turn the end of the shaft down to > > 6.35mm, but rigged it so it was so much per inch of travel, but using > > a 2" cutoff wheel in the dremel, a somewhat more rigid disk than the > > thin steel disk, but amazingly only had to use about .0006" of taper > > per inch. > > This on a 7x Chinese lathe? Had the headstock off to check for burrs, > dings, raised spots and random bits of junk between it and the bed? > Already thought of that, and no I haven't, and with the new motor and counter shaft assembly living in the old motor pocket, plus all the electronics in a housing surrounding the new motor, I would probably be 2 or 3 hours to disassemble, and 6 or 8 to put it back together & get the belts aligned again. IOW, I don't really want to do it. ;-) Maybe, if the medics can get my back pain under control later this week, but right now, it wouldn't be worth it.
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