On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 20:50 -0500, Dave Keeton wrote:
> Our Mazak Lathe has a turret that uses a belville spring washers in a
> friction brake. The nice thing about it is that when a collision occurs the
> turret is pretty easy to get back on centerline. It uses a shot pin to
> locate that is pu
Our Mazak Lathe has a turret that uses a belville spring washers in a
friction brake. The nice thing about it is that when a collision occurs the
turret is pretty easy to get back on centerline. It uses a shot pin to
locate that is pulled back out when it is clamped. It is hydraulic
though.
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 19:29 -0500, Jim Coleman wrote:
> what about sliding a pin into the turret when its in place to lock it?
> then no lifting is needed, just rotate about it's axis and lock.
> maybe pins coming in from the sides in multiple locations to help
> rigidity? a mechanism similar to t
On the two direction motion thing, Both Barrafaldi and Duplomatic will work in
both directionsI programmed mine to take the shortest route to the called
up tool..There is more to this than just rotating a tool into place. You
should be able to call up the tool like this.
Say it
Hi Glenn,
I also have a HP/Compag nw9440. Do you have Linux running on that laptop? If
yes, how?
I look forward to your reply.
Have a good day,
Jim
- Original Message -
From: Glenn R. Edwards
To: 'Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)'
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 10:42 PM
Hi all,
Off the wall ... or out of the box. Rotate with a servo motor and
lock with a caliper as in disc brake.
I think it takes about 800-1000 psi to really set a caliperso
maybe an air can as in air brake to hydraulic
cylinder to supply the pressure. A 2500 ppr encoder in quadrature
g
what about sliding a pin into the turret when its in place to lock it? then
no lifting is needed, just rotate about it's axis and lock. maybe pins
coming in from the sides in multiple locations to help rigidity? a
mechanism similar to the self centering thing on tap wrenches, the outward
spiral t
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 17:05 -0500, Dave Keeton wrote:
> If it is like a Barrafaldi or a Duplomatic I can help..I have installed
> both of these...It looks alot like them and I would assume they use the
> same kind of encoder. Reading the encoder is fairly easy using ladder, If
> you happ
could it be fsb / memory and the like are the limiting factor, and not the
CPU speed? i've been curious how overclocking would affect the speeds
attainable. i've only ran emc on a slightly overclocked athlon XP
barton2500 system, i might have to get around to doing some more testing,
huh.
On Tue
On Friday 07 March 2008, Ian W. Wright wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have an automatic install of Ubuntu EMC2 on one computer which has two
>partitions on the drive - a /boot and a /swap. I would like to put in a
>second drive on which I already have a windows XP installation and make
>the machine dual booting
Kirk,
I believe this turret will only lock in one of the 8 tool positions
due to the internal mechanism. It probably has a Curvic Coupling to locate
it. The electric turrets in my experience and my situation (I have about 8
of these in my shop) are much more reliable than the hydraulic
If it is like a Barrafaldi or a Duplomatic I can help..I have installed
both of these...It looks alot like them and I would assume they use the
same kind of encoder. Reading the encoder is fairly easy using ladder, If
you happen to have FAPT Ladder III editing software I can send you wha
Aaron,
> The gantry weighs about 70Kg and I have 16mm lead screws with
> 4mm pitch. Could some one tell me what specs I need so i can look out for
> stuff on ebay UK.
>
I have 6.4 Nm (~ 900 oz inch) motors, my gantry weighs about 80-90 Kg
and 16mm lead screws with 5mm pitch.
The motors are w
Ian W. Wright wrote:
> Thanks. The drive, which is an old-style 40GB IDE drive, is in the machine
> and set up as slave to the Linux drive i.e. it should be hdb.
> The computer also has a couple of CD/DVD drives which are set as master and
> slave on the second IDE input to the board. At the mome
Hi Sebastian,
>>The first step is going to be to get the new disk into the machine
>>and
have the hardware working. Are these old-style IDE drives, SATA, or
something else? Are there any CD-ROM drives or other disk-like devices
in the computer?
Also send the output of "cat /p
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 14:19 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ian,
>
> I am using the basic output from HAL via a 1284 parallel printer port,
> (mode 2). The stepper motor drivers are just doing the chopping to limit
> current. I didn't change HAL in any way.
>
> The one thing you might try is
Ian,
I am using the basic output from HAL via a 1284 parallel printer port,
(mode 2). The stepper motor drivers are just doing the chopping to limit
current. I didn't change HAL in any way.
The one thing you might try is to limit the acceleration.
I was surprised when I raised the motor voltag
I would like to get more information on the tool changer on this lathe.
http://cgi.ebay.com/1982-TOS-Engine-Lathe_W0QQitemZ180221313534
I am thinking a Sherline class changer of this type might be a good
thing.
I am trying to figure out generally how they work. Does anyone have
links to this or
Ian W. Wright wrote:
> I have an automatic install of Ubuntu EMC2 on one computer which has two
> partitions on the drive - a /boot and a /swap. I would like to put in a
> second drive on which I already have a windows XP installation and make
> the machine dual booting with Ubuntu as the defaul
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 17:18 +, Ian W. Wright wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an automatic install of Ubuntu EMC2 on one computer which has two
> partitions on the drive - a /boot and a /swap. I would like to put in a
> second drive on which I already have a windows XP installation and make
> the ma
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 07:36:47PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> Greetings;
> >>
> >> Is there a key assignment that will run the A axis, like the first three,
> >> so I don't have to fool with the mouse to move it?
>
>
>In AXIS: Help / Quick Reference
I wish there was one to run a B axis!!
Thanks Jim,
I then switched to a simple chopping driver with no
micro-steps, and let HAL do the work. HAL was
capable of driving steps well up into the 50 microsecond range. >>
Do you mean here that you used the basic output from EMC2 or that you
programmed in an extra lay
Hi,
I have an automatic install of Ubuntu EMC2 on one computer which has two
partitions on the drive - a /boot and a /swap. I would like to put in a
second drive on which I already have a windows XP installation and make
the machine dual booting with Ubuntu as the default. However, I am not
su
I downloaded the tgz and unpacked it, which supp[oseely has a 30 day trial
option. However, I can't get past the license key requester to soo how its
supposed to look, and there appears not to be a temp key in the archive.
Does anyone know how to make the limited time demo mode run?
I also loo
I've been using EMC for a few years now, and have used 3-4 different
ways to generate g-code for it. Mostly, we hand-write it, because most
of what we make just needs rectangular holes, circles here & there, etc.
But I am now seriously considering buying Synergy. I'm running a 30 day
trial versio
Gary,
> I need meta-help.
> Does anyone have any idea what's going on? I've used Thunderbird,
I am also using Thunderbird and web based email and have bad luck with both.
Sometimes my mail to the list arrives almost immediately but it may
take up to two days before I see a response on other mai
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