On Wednesday 10 June 2020 22:23:23 TJoseph Powderly wrote:

> Gene
> please take care
> you are always full of surprises
> and remember to take care of yourself so you can take care of the
> missus! TomP
>
The missus is in the shop, thouroughly pissed because we wouldn't let her 
smoke 3 or 4 cigs while the ems people stood around.  But she will get 
over it as soon as they slap a nic patch on her. I'll check on her I 
think, since they aren't allowing visitors, a couple times a day. HIPPA  
makes that a PITA.

> btw my old man got a 4way bypass and a handful of stints 20+ years
> before he passed
> .they used his legs as a plumbing supply!

They've not yet got that hard up for spares, OTOH, my legs have been 
attached to a DM-II for nearly 30 years, so I don't imagine they'll make 
good spare parts.  The right one in particular is a bit rough. ATM I'm 
up cause its cramping and I've just given it a rub with therawerks.
They've also been stented already. That was some of the first 4 or 5 
stents they put in, not all were in my heart.  It has reduced the edema 
some, enough to be noticeable.

I had started to see if I could find a hub for a printed sprocket with 
the lathe and a block of alu, but the heat and humidity ran me back into 
the AC, and when I later made a run to the mailbox, surprise, there were 
2 all metal sprockets in it. So now I need to find enough bolts to mount 
the adapter plate, from nema 34 to nema 23, and the belt should till 
fit.  This is an experiment of sorts, replaceing a very noisy 1600 oz/in 
motor with a 3 phase 3NM motor that thinks its a step/dir driven servo. 
I've not used one of these before. It should have enough power and be 50 
db quieter.  These 3 phasers are 1.2 degree motors, so I'll have to 
recal the scale. Running on a function generator it goes up to about 
2500 revs before it faults and the torque at 1000 is amazing, so I think 
it will work just fine.  But I'll have to splice the motor cable while 
I'm switching it to 3 wire drive from 4 wire.  Apparently the vender 
didn't src it all from the same place, so the encoder cable is a couple 
meters longer than the motor cable.  No biggie for me, but I hate 
splicing cables in the middle of a run.

I'll put the other of the motor pair w/drivers I got for $250 on this 
BS-1 if I can cobble up an on-center shaft for idler stuffs, and maybe 
put gears for the 2nd stage of geardown since theres only about 40mm 
between the tilt axis central point and the worm shaft.  Thats the plan 
anyway. What I want isn't speed, but enough power to drive it while its 
cutting a gear, which can load up the worm and make it very hard to 
turn.

I'd bought another qctp as the one of the lathe was falling apart on one 
side, had it for 2 or 3 months, BOSTAR brand, dirt cheap. And today 
found there is a diff between 250-1xx toll holders and 250-2xx tool 
holders. Different width, and slightly diff dovetail angles. As Jackie 
was fond of saying, what a revolting development that is.  The -1xx 
stuff fits a piston qctp, the -2xx stuff fits a wedge locking qctp. The 
advertisments doesn't make that distinction.

So I'm a wee bit schmardter today.

Take care and stay well, TomP. 

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
 - Louis D. Brandeis
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