Re: [Emc-users] home chemistry, was: General question about gibs

2012-08-27 Thread Peter Loron
A most excellent blog. His other posts are worth reading as well. Go do a search for pentaborane. -Pete On Aug 25, 2012, at 9:18 AM, Peter C. Wallace wrote: On Sat, 25 Aug 2012, dave wrote: SNIP Someplace out there ...

Re: [Emc-users] moglice, another note

2012-08-27 Thread cogoman
On 08/26/2012 07:29 PM, jeremy youngs wrote: I am thinking about lining my ways with this product any thoughts? Tormach has a nice whitepaper about the design of their PCNC1100 that has me salivating to get one for myself. In it they have this quote: There is a problem with it, however.

Re: [Emc-users] G71 lathe roughing cycle

2012-08-27 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 11:14:15 +0100, you wrote: Jeremy/Steve/Chris Chris is correct 1. When reading the U, W words they are reserved for axis movements only. 2. Some lathes are XZ/UW - so the UW words are required for the second tool. As far as I know Fanuc don't use UW for axis in lathes or

Re: [Emc-users] home chemistry, was: General question about gibs

2012-08-27 Thread Mark Wendt
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Mark Wendt wendt.m...@gmail.com wrote: I want somma that Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane stuff... ROFL! I'd only accept it in the correct containment system. ;-) I think

Re: [Emc-users] home chemistry, was: General question about gibs

2012-08-27 Thread Mark Wendt
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com wrote: http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/things_i_wont_work_with/ My favorite thing from this blog was a compound that is stabilized by

Re: [Emc-users] home chemistry, was: General question about gibs

2012-08-27 Thread Mark Wendt
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Peter Loron pet...@standingwave.org wrote: A most excellent blog. His other posts are worth reading as well. Go do a search for pentaborane. -Pete Nice nasty stuff. The F-16's EPU used hydrazine. More good stuff. Mark

Re: [Emc-users] moglice, another note

2012-08-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 27 August 2012 05:16:06 dave did opine: On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 00:06 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 27 August 2012 00:02:53 jeremy youngs did opine: a spray on product would be great? oh I could use my new chemistry knowledge, make custom nozzles on my machine and solve

Re: [Emc-users] moglice, another note

2012-08-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 27 August 2012 05:27:17 dave did opine: On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 00:42 -0400, jeremy youngs wrote: rofl thems is my friend tems is, when i get them they will cost me more than the mill and the controls combined. the moglice web site showed how to use the product to reline the

Re: [Emc-users] G71 lathe roughing cycle

2012-08-27 Thread Michael Haberler
Ben, it's a creative idea, I like it. The semantics of the 'profile block' is a bit shaky wrt normal execution logic of rs274ngc, but let's see if we can mutate this into common ground so it can be easily done with a remap. what you have is a cycle which in essence refers to a datastructure,

Re: [Emc-users] moglice, another note

2012-08-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 27 August 2012 06:09:04 cogoman did opine: On 08/26/2012 07:29 PM, jeremy youngs wrote: I am thinking about lining my ways with this product any thoughts? Tormach has a nice whitepaper about the design of their PCNC1100 that has me salivating to get one for myself. In it

Re: [Emc-users] moglice, another note

2012-08-27 Thread Greg Bernard
Check McMaster-Carr. They sell PTFE filled Delrin in small quantities. Even plain Delrin without PTFE is pretty slick and would likely work. I doubt your garage windows are Delrin as I've never seen it in clear, only black and white. Most likely they're polycarbonate.  

Re: [Emc-users] G-code remaping

2012-08-27 Thread Todd Zuercher
The script I have is actually an old Dos EXE that was written for us a long long time ago. I do not have the source code for it nor do I know who the author was. - Original Message - Am 27.08.2012 um 03:18 schrieb Todd Zuercher: This thread lately about g-code remapping, has brought

Re: [Emc-users] G71 lathe roughing cycle

2012-08-27 Thread Ralph Stirling
I have wished for a long time for a general mechanism for defining a path (profile) once, then using that path multiple times in functions. This reinvention of G71/G70 looks like a good opportunity to create such a mechanism. I use G71/G70 often in code for our Mori Seiki lathe (Fanuc 0i

Re: [Emc-users] G71 lathe roughing cycle

2012-08-27 Thread kqt4at5v
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Ralph Stirling wrote: I have wished for a long time for a general mechanism for defining a path (profile) once, then using that path multiple times in functions. This reinvention of G71/G70 looks like a good opportunity to create such a mechanism. I use G71/G70 often

[Emc-users] Indexed or vectored variables

2012-08-27 Thread Klemen Ozebek
*Dear, *I found this statement in classicladder manual: *Indexed or vectored variables* - These are variables indexed by another variable. Some might call this vectored variables. Example: %W0[%W4] = if %W4 equals 23 it corresponds to %W23 Can be this done also with %Bxx bit Example: %B0[%W4]

Re: [Emc-users] moglice, another note

2012-08-27 Thread Martin Dobbins
I'm not sure if this would work for you, I haven't tried it myself, but it may be worth a look: http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/threads/43645-Making-Acetal-leadscrew-nuts-the-easy-way Martin Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:42:00 -0400 From: jcyoungs rofl thems is my friend tems is, when i

Re: [Emc-users] G71 lathe roughing cycle

2012-08-27 Thread Kenneth Lerman
On 8/27/2012 9:16 AM, Ralph Stirling wrote: I have wished for a long time for a general mechanism for defining a path (profile) once, then using that path multiple times in functions. This reinvention of G71/G70 looks like a good opportunity to create such a mechanism. I use G71/G70 often

Re: [Emc-users] moglice, another note

2012-08-27 Thread jeremy youngs
thanx for sharing very interesting and appears the easiest fastest solution ive come acrorss so far On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Martin Dobbins tu...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm not sure if this would work for you, I haven't tried it myself, but it may be worth a look:

Re: [Emc-users] moglice, another note

2012-08-27 Thread dave
massive snip Ay! My brain if failing. Months ago I tried steel filled epoxy as a coating.out of sight, out of mind. Procedure: Remove lathe carriage, degrease slide contact areas, coat with epoxy, cover lathe ways with vinyl kitchen wrap carefully smoothed out. Reposition carriage

Re: [Emc-users] G71 lathe roughing cycle

2012-08-27 Thread Schooner
I've done that by writing a subroutine that traces the path. The subroutine takes a single argument that represents the offset from the path. Then call it in a loop with appropriate values. Another variation on the theme, similar to the above, I published a set of ngcui subroutines to carry

[Emc-users] Problems with smartProbe.ngc..

2012-08-27 Thread Jason Blakey
Hi Guys, I'm new here, and this is my second post, so I'm sorry up front if I'm stepping on any toes. I've got a question about smartProbe.ngc, if anyone's got any experience with it. In 2.4, it didn't work for me, and I used gridProbe.ngc a lot. Worked fine but was slow. Now that 2.5 is

Re: [Emc-users] Problems with smartProbe.ngc..

2012-08-27 Thread John Stewart
Jason, I'm not around my machine right now, and I could be totally off base: One of the probing routines, after it found the side, but before moving back, I had to give the probe a nudge into the object by about 0.02mm so that, on the return, the Gxx command would not start with the probe

Re: [Emc-users] Problems with smartProbe.ngc..

2012-08-27 Thread Jason Blakey
Ah, got ya, John. Thanks - I'll give that a try tonight jason On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:06 AM, John Stewart alex.stew...@crc.ca wrote: Jason, I'm not around my machine right now, and I could be totally off base: One of the probing routines, after it found the side, but before moving

Re: [Emc-users] Indexed or vectored variables

2012-08-27 Thread Chris Morley
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:36:03 +0200 From: klemen.oze...@gmail.com To: Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-users] Indexed or vectored variables *Dear, *I found this statement in classicladder manual: *Indexed or vectored variables* - These are variables indexed by

Re: [Emc-users] moglice, another note

2012-08-27 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 08:48 -0500, Martin Dobbins wrote: I'm not sure if this would work for you, I haven't tried it myself, but it may be worth a look: http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/threads/43645-Making-Acetal-leadscrew-nuts-the-easy-way Martin I tend to prefer a more traditional

[Emc-users] moglice, another note

2012-08-27 Thread Roland Jollivet
On 27 August 2012 07:11, dave dengv...@charter.net wrote: On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 00:42 -0400, jeremy youngs wrote: rofl thems is my friend tems is, when i get them they will cost me more than the mill and the controls combined. the moglice web site showed how to use the product to reline

Re: [Emc-users] G71 lathe roughing cycle

2012-08-27 Thread Ben Potter
Michael, I'll have to think about this a bit, but on first reading I like it. My initial impressions are: 1) If I'm reading you right, the profile block would need to be defined before any call to it. That said, it wouldn't actually execute it, merely store it. 2) No C++ maintenance to worry

Re: [Emc-users] G71 lathe roughing cycle

2012-08-27 Thread Ben Potter
Dual turret (or spindle) machines do seem to come in an incredible variety of languages. I remember one particularly awkward machine that used z_[1]x through z_[5]x to define which spindle you were moving, followed by a g-code to tell it to actually move the Z-axis. Normal Xn Yn Zn moves would

Re: [Emc-users] moglice, another note

2012-08-27 Thread Kenneth Lerman
On 8/27/2012 12:03 PM, Kirk Wallace wrote: On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 08:48 -0500, Martin Dobbins wrote: I'm not sure if this would work for you, I haven't tried it myself, but it may be worth a look: http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/threads/43645-Making-Acetal-leadscrew-nuts-the-easy-way

Re: [Emc-users] home chemistry, was: General question about gibs

2012-08-27 Thread Jon Elson
Mark Wendt wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Mark Wendt wendt.m...@gmail.com wrote: I want somma that Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane stuff... ROFL! I'd only accept it in the

Re: [Emc-users] G71 lathe roughing cycle

2012-08-27 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 27.08.2012 um 18:35 schrieb Ben Potter: Michael, I'll have to think about this a bit, but on first reading I like it. My initial impressions are: 1) If I'm reading you right, the profile block would need to be defined before any call to it. That said, it wouldn't actually execute it,

Re: [Emc-users] G71 lathe roughing cycle

2012-08-27 Thread Ralph Stirling
Run from line works pretty good on my Mori's Fanuc, but I would sure never try to start on a line in the middle of a G71 profile block. I'd rather not find out what it would try to do in that case. I guess I could live with the G200/1/2/3 versions of the G0/1/2/3, but it doesn't seem like a real

Re: [Emc-users] moglice, another note

2012-08-27 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 12:53 -0400, Kenneth Lerman wrote: On 8/27/2012 12:03 PM, Kirk Wallace wrote: On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 08:48 -0500, Martin Dobbins wrote: I'm not sure if this would work for you, I haven't tried it myself, but it may be worth a look:

Re: [Emc-users] home chemistry, was: General question about gibs

2012-08-27 Thread Mark Wendt
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: Mark Wendt wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Mark Wendt wendt.m...@gmail.com wrote: I want somma that

Re: [Emc-users] G71 lathe roughing cycle

2012-08-27 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 05:35:28PM +0100, Ben Potter wrote: 7) Completely different method to other controllers Like others I don't have a problem with this when other controllers are excessively weird or contrary to how ngc works. I am curious which, if either, approach (C or remap) would

Re: [Emc-users] G71 lathe roughing cycle

2012-08-27 Thread Ben Potter
In a single direction (read: type 1 cycle) - either. The moves generated in either case are the same, it's simply the syntax which they are called with (and what bugs it may introduce elsewhere). I have only ignored it so far since it reduces the number of things to worry about at one time. For

Re: [Emc-users] G71 lathe roughing cycle

2012-08-27 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 27.08.2012 um 20:22 schrieb Chris Radek: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 05:35:28PM +0100, Ben Potter wrote: 7) Completely different method to other controllers Like others I don't have a problem with this when other controllers are excessively weird or contrary to how ngc works. I am

Re: [Emc-users] G71 lathe roughing cycle

2012-08-27 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:45:23 +0100, you wrote: Dual turret (or spindle) machines do seem to come in an incredible variety of languages. I remember one particularly awkward machine that used z_[1]x through z_[5]x to define which spindle you were moving, followed by a g-code to tell it to actually

Re: [Emc-users] moglice, another note

2012-08-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 27 August 2012 19:09:30 Greg Bernard did opine: Check McMaster-Carr. They sell PTFE filled Delrin in small quantities. Even plain Delrin without PTFE is pretty slick and would likely work. I doubt your garage windows are Delrin as I've never seen it in clear, only black and white.

Re: [Emc-users] G-code remaping

2012-08-27 Thread Todd Zuercher
I am very new to this, so please pardon the dumb questions. Do I add these if/else commands in both the forward and inverse kinematics sections of the new kins.c? Is there any problems with having the tran.pos-z tied to both the joint[2] in one line and joint[8] in the else line (or do both of