Greetings; Unforch I did not take any pix, my back is complaining enough w/o the extra running around with a camera.
But I can relate that when installing the Y screw, the nut must be removed by unscrewing it with the supplied short piece of tubing following the bolt as it backs out, then dropping the nut into the base and inserting the screw thru the front of the base and into the nut so the tubing is pushed back out as the screw is screwed into the nut. That worked well, no dropped balls. But when I then bolted the motor mount and thrust assembly onto the front of the base, it was found that the bolt was bent slightly, or machined crooked. I took a block of wood under the quill, turned the bolt so it was highest, and used the quill to take about 2/3rds of the bend out of the bolt, then clamped the nut in about the center of its wobble. It feels good, no tight spots so I'll leave it. Mods to the Y carriage for the x nut, as we've seen on youtube. I not only had to make a clearance trench about .265" deep for the body of the nut, I also had to square out the corners of the thru slot where the nut gets clamped, the new nut was wider and was riding the curve in the ends of the factory slot, so a 1/4" mill was used to square up the ends of the slot by about 3/16" in all corners. Then the nut fit well and clamped up in good alignment. The 2 tapered gibs ARE NOT alike, there is about 15 thou difference in thickness, so mark them puppies when you take them out. I found it the hard way... By then my back is yelling but I did a grimace and bear it, picked up the X table (north of 50lbs I think) and fed it back into place. So now the tables are converted, and the X/Y motors mounted. Quitting time for today, and its even past 5 here. Theres a beer in the fridge with my name on it, calling for me. Jon, got the driver today, looks good, but I don't have a psu for it cobbled up yet. I did check the rpm disk, its somewhat smaller (about 1/8") than one of the lathes encoder disks and with fewer, larger holes. Making an encoder wheel ought to be fun. The holes in the existing disk are huge (7/32"?)compared to a milled slot, so I have no clue if I can just get 3 of that small interruptor and make it work with a somewhat shrunken 50 cycle wheel. But once the Z motor is on it, and the 5i25 arrives, I'll sure try, first making the wheel. The thought crosses my mind to make it with the same number of slots as this one has holes, and feed the A interuptor into the existing rpm display if its not line voltage hot. Question: If that turns out to be doable, how coarse a slot count can the encoder work with for rigid tapping? That has not been checked yet, but nothing would surprise me. So thats the news from the WV version of Lake Woebegone. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor 25 network devices or servers for free with OpManager! OpManager is web-based network management software that monitors network devices and physical & virtual servers, alerts via email & sms for fault. Monitor 25 devices for free with no restriction. Download now http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/292181274;119417398;o _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
