On Tuesday 13 September 2016 04:13:15 andy pugh wrote: > ethernet-blue-data-cable-4x2x0-12mm-od-6-3mm-49-1790
5 bucks a meter? A week to ship ARO? They obviously aren't "hungry". Based on buying some cutting tools from a limey vendor a year ago, I'll be 6 weeks getting it into my hands. Nyet. I have some over-large drag chain, and I can get a stiffer, grey poly jacketed, 4 conductors with shield thats 7 mm's in diameter at half that locally. Not drag chain rated, but it will probably outlast me as this chain turns around in about a 5 inch circle. This chain will carry at least 4 of those but I only need two to the saddle, one for X motor & something smaller, mini zip cord works on the toy lathe for a home switch. I bought 100 feet of the 4+shield to wire the G0704 with & may have enough left to do 2 steppers and the encoder on this lathe. I have some SS pipe, fuel line for a race car, a neighbor gave me that I can pull x motor power across the saddle in a piece of, and can probably rig a home switch on the rear, but that belongs in the crossfeed backed out position so that a home can be done with a workpiece mounted. I don't have the saddle and crossfeed assembled well enough to survey that possibility yet. With the taper extension of the crossfeed still in place, its long enough I should be able to put a home switch back there and out of the way and still have it trip half a millimeter from the backout mechanical stop. I see that in my mind as being on the same saddle extension I'll have to make to carry the drag chain. That way, only the x motor power has to come across the saddle. If I can bend it, I might drill a hole thru the top of the saddle to get it into the apron and the motor. Its something I'll check out, but I suspect I'll have to make a mini-half shell elbow cover for. Bridges not yet crossed, but it will need to be solved in due time. The ideal cable would be a star-quad that Clark Wire in windy carried 20 years ago, it was 18 gauge in a mylar film covered in 68% braided shield, very limp stuff. But Susan is not importing the heavier gauges anymore, and its a piece of her 24 gauge thats heating while driving the x motor on the little monster. So as I revive the little monster, some of that grey stuff will be used to replace it. But that drag chain has a much smaller turn around, abusing that cable, so that will fail faster. How fast remains TBD. So what I can get, or have already, will have to do. Its not always ideal but does make the connections needed. 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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
