We have a customer who is wanting to make a motor controlled rifling machine. I spent a good bit of time researching it for him today and I was surprised that it seems that no one is doing it with motors (or at least I couldn't find anyone). I understand the need for the linear relationship of the cutter to the position of the indexer in such a machine. But I wanted to hear your guys thoughts on doing this with motors, which will inherently have some degree of granular positioning.
Here is the best machine design I could find that really demonstrates the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_yemjfgkE0 >Len ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users