On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.comwrote:
The motor was probably removed by the same process that modified the
control boxes.
That's pretty sad to see. It really looks like the whole thing has been on
its side, and it's hard to believe there isn't significant
On 01/23/2012 02:16 PM, gene heskett wrote:
Thanks Mark, but I think NFS is going to solve my problems in that regard.
After 14 years of failure, I made it work, with a lot of help from this
list, this morning. Sweet! Shame on the man page writers for abstracting
the requirements till nobody
On 22 January 2012 08:07, a...@conceptmachinery.com wrote:
why retrofit bridgeport machine when one can buy cnc machine X 50 Y 26
travel CNC mill for $6.5 k
That machine cost $85k new, so the standard of bearings, castings,
screws etc is likely to be a lot better than a built-down-to-a-price
2012/1/24 gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com
On Monday, January 23, 2012 11:57:10 PM Jeff Epler did opine:
Michael,
I would like to address your concerns over the quality of the rebranding
changes and the degree of consideration that they were given before they
were made. I can speak
On 24 January 2012 13:47, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote:
3. There are too many info channels! Close down the forum on the LinuxCNC
website ASAP! It doesn't work, Google can't make correct forward links and
some browsers fail to show it. There is an active forum at cnczone
I
On 24 January 2012 13:47, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote:
Google can't make correct forward links
I just tried a search for something I knew would find the LinuxCNC
website forum, and it worked fine. Can you elaborate on this point?
--
atp
The idea that there is no such thing as
On mar, 2012-01-24 at 14:10 +, andy pugh wrote:
On 24 January 2012 13:47, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote:
3. There are too many info channels! Close down the forum on the LinuxCNC
website ASAP! It doesn't work, Google can't make correct forward links and
some browsers fail to
Why on earth would you want to close down the LinuxCNC forum and shift
to a commercial laden for profit forum? There is nothing more annoying
that waiting for all the commercials to load and clutter up your screen
at the zone. Do you work for or derive profit the zone?
John
On 1/24/2012 7:47
On 1/24/2012 8:47 AM, Sven Wesley wrote:
3. There are too many info channels! Close down the forum on the LinuxCNC
website ASAP! It doesn't work, Google can't make correct forward links and
some browsers fail to show it. There is an active forum at cnczone (I'll
fix the renaming), there's a
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 00:12 -0500, gene heskett wrote:
Its doing all moves on the .bot. files
in negative X from the reference point
I'm pretty sure there's a checkbox along the way that reads Mirror X
axis to make that answer come out right without any further attention.
The Eagle gerbv274x
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 9:10 AM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
The LinuxCNC forum shows 14,000 posts to 8,000 for the cnczone one.
I (personally) find the cnczone forum rather hard to find, at the end
of a very long list, and I don't think that the sub-forums are broken
down small
Eric Keller wrote:
The LinuxCNC forum shows 14,000 posts to 8,000 for the cnczone one.
I (personally) find the cnczone forum rather hard to find, at the end
of a very long list, and I don't think that the sub-forums are broken
down small enough.
Seems to me that the CNCzone moderator
Kirk Wallace wrote:
but I used the paradigm of a switch closure at the time I did the
installation, after giving it more thought and referring to:
http://pico-systems.com/images/univstep.png
it looks as if the inputs already go to an opto-isolator on the UPC
anyway. It may be that a
andy pugh wrote:
On 24 January 2012 13:47, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote:
3. There are too many info channels! Close down the forum on the LinuxCNC
website ASAP! It doesn't work, Google can't make correct forward links and
some browsers fail to show it. There is an active forum
John Thornton wrote:
Why on earth would you want to close down the LinuxCNC forum and shift
to a commercial laden for profit forum? There is nothing more annoying
that waiting for all the commercials to load and clutter up your screen
at the zone. Do you work for or derive profit the zone?
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 12:26 -0600, Jon Elson wrote:
Kirk Wallace wrote:
but I used the paradigm of a switch closure at the time I did the
installation, after giving it more thought and referring to:
http://pico-systems.com/images/univstep.png
it looks as if the inputs already go to
That is the main reason I don't go to the zone as with my 1Mb (sometimes
that good sometimes not so good) it takes 30 minutes to load a page then
you have to navigate all the ads to find the forum...
John
On 1/24/2012 12:36 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
John Thornton wrote:
Why on earth would you
On 01/24/2012 12:36 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
Oh, that's a different story. The performance of CNCzone was never
great, but
tolerable. NOW, it is EXECRABLE! I have a 20 MB/s internet, and I
often have
to wait a MINUTE for the ads to load before I can see some discussion.
Their
It is easy to
On Tuesday, January 24, 2012 01:46:15 PM Rafael Skodlar did opine:
[...]
What I have in all my Linux workstations is this:
- in konsole (my favorite GUI terminal) I open a number of tabs. First
one is always reserved for root. I label it root and to use it I
normally do sudo su -
I
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 12:42 -0600, John Thornton wrote:
That is the main reason I don't go to the zone as with my 1Mb (sometimes
that good sometimes not so good) it takes 30 minutes to load a page then
you have to navigate all the ads to find the forum...
John
Thank goodness for the
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:31:11AM -0800, Kirk Wallace wrote:
Thank goodness for the servers that host our website, wiki and such. It
looks like PMDX gets credit for this. Thank you.
Nope. SWP pays for our advertisement-free hosting of the website, web
forum, and wiki. He and Alex and
Thank goodness for the servers that host our website, wiki and such. It
looks like PMDX gets credit for this. Thank you.
--
Kirk Wallace
Duh, well once upon a time, but not any longer.
I think that credit now goes to Stephen Willie Padnos
and DreamHost.
Perhaps you could point out the
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 11:41 -0800, steve...@newsguy.com wrote:
Thank goodness for the servers that host our website, wiki and such. It
looks like PMDX gets credit for this. Thank you.
--
Kirk Wallace
Duh, well once upon a time, but not any longer.
I think that credit now goes to Stephen
Gentle persons:
Several items were called out recently as being show stoppers for
LinuxCNC. I do not aspire to learn the inner workings of LinuxCNC well
enough to contribute to discussion of the first item, No jog on feedhold.
However, the second item Taper thread pitches are measured along
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 13:48 -0600, Chris Radek wrote:
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:31:11AM -0800, Kirk Wallace wrote:
Thank goodness for the servers that host our website, wiki and such. It
looks like PMDX gets credit for this. Thank you.
Nope. SWP pays for our advertisement-free hosting
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 16:09 -0500, Kent A. Reed wrote:
... snip
how else they
cut tapered threads on a lathe in the old days,
My guess is by using a taper attachment:
http://its.fvtc.edu/machshop2/operations/taperw_attach.htm
http://www.lathes.co.uk/hardinge/img19.gif
On 24 January 2012 21:09, Kent A. Reed knbr...@erols.com wrote:
At best I'm a dilettante with machine tools and certainly I'm no expert
with a lathe. That not withstanding, long, long ago, I was taught to cut
a tapered thread on a manual lathe by shifting the tailstock over. It
seems to me
On 1/24/2012 3:49 AM, Eric Keller wrote:
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Stuart Stevensonstus...@gmail.comwrote:
The motor was probably removed by the same process that modified the
control boxes.
That's pretty sad to see. It really looks like the whole thing has been on
its
I entirely agree.
There is nothing wrong with the forum as it is.
The CNCZone is not open and could go to a paid subscription service in a
heartbeat.
Dave
On 1/24/2012 9:56 AM, John Thornton wrote:
Why on earth would you want to close down the LinuxCNC forum and shift
to a commercial laden
On 01/24/2012 12:36 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
John Thornton wrote:
Why on earth would you want to close down the LinuxCNC forum and shift
to a commercial laden for profit forum? There is nothing more annoying
that waiting for all the commercials to load and clutter up your screen
at the zone. Do
- Original Message -
From: Kent A. Reed knbr...@erols.com
Several items were called out recently as being show stoppers for
LinuxCNC. I do not aspire to learn the inner workings of LinuxCNC well
enough to contribute to discussion of the first item, No jog on
feedhold.
However,
On 24 January 2012 21:52, John Prentice j...@castlewd.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
(b) For most practical tapered pipe threads no one will notice the pitch
error. On one hand I think it is unusual CNC behaviour in threading (so
possible difficulties for CAM users without a special postprocessor).
On Tuesday, January 24, 2012 05:34:12 PM Fox Mulder did opine:
Am 23.01.2012 01:23, schrieb gene heskett:
Greetings all;
I just ran it and had it generate a bunch of stuff I copied to the
mill, and I recall seeing a checkmark in the setup menu that asked if
I wanted the bottom flipped
On 1/24/2012 4:52 PM, John Prentice wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Kent A. Reedknbr...@erols.com
Several items were called out recently as being show stoppers for
LinuxCNC. I do not aspire to learn the inner workings of LinuxCNC well
enough to contribute to discussion of the
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:09:34 -0500, you wrote:
Not being able to imagine (I said limited brain, remember) how else they
cut tapered threads on a lathe in the old days, I expect the standard
specifications (ASME B1.20.1, fer instance) of the times would reflect this.
Hi Kent
Commercially
On Tuesday, January 24, 2012 05:55:14 PM Ed Nisley did opine:
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 00:12 -0500, gene heskett wrote:
Its doing all moves on the .bot. files
in negative X from the reference point
I'm pretty sure there's a checkbox along the way that reads Mirror X
axis to make that answer
On 24 January 2012 22:54, Steve Blackmore st...@pilotltd.net wrote:
My CAM programs know this, and cut the threads accordingly -
unfortunately they turn out wrong.
With the ability to remap G-codes which is in Master it will be
possible to re-map G33 to calculate the trigonometric correction
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:33:04 +
andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
On 24 January 2012 22:52, Kenneth Lerman kenneth.ler...@se-ltd.com
wrote:
4 -- Hire someone to do #2. (Don't even ask -- I have two prices
for my work on LinuxCNC, the first is free and you probably can't
afford the
On Tuesday, January 24, 2012 07:50:23 PM Dave did opine:
On 1/24/2012 2:48 PM, Chris Radek wrote:
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:31:11AM -0800, Kirk Wallace wrote:
Thank goodness for the servers that host our website, wiki and such.
It looks like PMDX gets credit for this. Thank you.
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 6:53 PM, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
On Tuesday, January 24, 2012 07:50:23 PM Dave did opine:
On 1/24/2012 2:48 PM, Chris Radek wrote:
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:31:11AM -0800, Kirk Wallace wrote:
Thank goodness for the servers that host our website,
On 25 January 2012 00:53, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
For the help I have received, durn tootin I'll donate. But I'd prefer you
who are footing the bills agree
I was thinking about this while doing the dishes.
Something I have never seen is a donate button that shows the
current
Thanks, Andy, Kirk, John, and Steve, for the input on lathe taper
attachments. It took me a minute to realize what I was looking at but
then the light bulb turned on. Obviously, I never made it past the row
of entry-level South Bend lathes in my own work, although I was acutely
aware of the
Kent A. Reed wrote:
At best I'm a dilettante with machine tools and certainly I'm no expert
with a lathe. That not withstanding, long, long ago, I was taught to cut
a tapered thread on a manual lathe by shifting the tailstock over. It
seems to me this would necessarily mean the thread pitch
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012, at 10:02 PM, andy pugh wrote:
On 24 January 2012 21:52, John Prentice j...@castlewd.freeserve.co.uk
wrote:
(b) For most practical tapered pipe threads no one will notice the pitch
error. On one hand I think it is unusual CNC behaviour in threading (so
possible
On 1/24/2012 11:34 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
Kent A. Reed wrote:
At best I'm a dilettante with machine tools and certainly I'm no expert
with a lathe. That not withstanding, long, long ago, I was taught to cut
a tapered thread on a manual lathe by shifting the tailstock over. It
seems to me this
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Mark Cason farmerboy1...@yahoo.com wrote:
On 01/23/2012 11:58 AM, Stuart Stevenson wrote:
If no one on this list buys this machine I will bid on it. This machine
is
on the Air Force Base. If I can, I will pick it up for anyone that buys
it.
I have never
On 01/24/2012 11:21 AM, gene heskett wrote:
On Tuesday, January 24, 2012 01:46:15 PM Rafael Skodlar did opine:
[...]
Chuckle, I need that this morning (morning? Duh, it's past 2pm), the 2nd
cup hasn't kicked in yet. :(
I've now been searching the package repo looking for a sed-like util
On 1/25/2012 12:31 AM, Stuart Stevenson wrote:
since I am about 5 miles from the base a second trip would not be a
problem - if I forgot some paperwork
That is extremely convenient. :-)
The last two base visits I had the GL guy met me at the gate and I
followed his car back to
On 1/25/2012 1:11 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote:
It may be annoying to know LinuxCNC works best with G-code programs
tailored to it, but isn't this true also for other controllers?
Yes.
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