On 6/29/2014 4:46 AM, Marius Liebenberg wrote: > I am finding it necessary to reconfigure my lathe as I cannot operate it > properly as I have it setup now. I need some advice please. > > What I have. > Mesa 5125 with a Mesa 7i76 > Photo interrupter spindle speed counter > AC motor without VFD > Joystick type of jog > Gmoccapy or Gscreen > Manual tool change (tool changer to come) > > Seeing that I am going to redo the configuration, please tell me what is > required to operate a lathe at best. If a VFD is required I will do that. > I want to be able to cut using CSS and I will want to do rigid tapping > as well. The tool changer will have a rotary tool attachment. > What do the machining gurus suggest?
You'll want to upgrade from a simple spindle tachometer to a rotary encoder and a servo motor to precisely control the rotational position of the workpieces. You'll need the same on the live tool holder to do rigid tapping with it. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
