I re-controlled one of those in the past but we simply rotated the part around the Z axis as the part moved downward through the coil in the Z direction.
But then all of our parts were round. Its a really quick way to heat treat a part! Dave On 3/11/2015 8:30 AM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: > 2015-03-11 6:07 GMT-03:00 andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com>: > >> It looks a lot better than it did, but I still can't tell what it is... > > It's a heat treating machine for shafts, we'll be using it mostly on > camshafts. The part it's holded between centers and the coil and shower > move up and down to heat a certain place of the part. In our case, it's > going to be used for the lobes of the cam. > > It's good to have a worm and gear reduction, because the coils for the > lobes with more lift are better if they have the shape of the lobe, to heat > more uniformly the lobe. For thar we need to rotate the camshaft a certain > amount of degrees depending on the lobe to heat. > > Here some other pics. There you can see the reduction and the shower and > where the coil is going to be plugged. > > http://postimg.org/image/th21yguw5/ > > http://postimg.org/image/4mik4ea1x/ > > --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users