> From: Roland Jollivet [mailto:[email protected]] > The thing about home/limit switches is that you can actually mount them far > from the engagement point, say two feet away. Use a hard, sprung rod to > transfer the action. > I've also come across switches that you can barely depress with your > finger, so that any oil/gunk gets squeezed out the way before it trips.
Thanks Roland These are temporary in the sense that I want the safety and repeatability of home/limit but they are not the final solution. Since the mill has a power feed on the RHS of the X I'm tempted to cut the wires for the limit switch in the middle and use it for example. And then clone something like that for the other axis (or for all of them). My DRO scales are in the way for some of this. I still need to add oiler tubes etc. This mill is similar to a Grizzly G3616 that I bought over 10 years ago new for about $3600Cdn. Anything even close to that size and mass now is over $8K. I really like the DRO but at some point I won't really need it and it's not impervious to flood coolant so there's tons of work to do on this. Or throw money at it and replace it with a HAAS. But then what would I do... John _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
