Re: [Emc-users] Advanced bipod question

2015-01-02 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 01/02/2015 12:10 PM, John Kasunich wrote: On Fri, Jan 2, 2015, at 01:03 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 2 January 2015 at 17:58, John Kasunich jmkasun...@fastmail.fm wrote: Also, I have a simple mechanical question: How is the cutting wire kept tight? Cable bipods don't have any ability to

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc-sim on Mint 17.1 LTS

2015-01-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 01 January 2015 23:12:22 Sebastian Kuzminsky did opine And Gene did reply: On 01/01/2015 08:59 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: So, what amd64 flavor of Ubuntu stands the best chance of working with the existing repo's? And which name do I then put in /etc/apt/sources.list? I run

Re: [Emc-users] Advanced bipod question

2015-01-02 Thread John Kasunich
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015, at 01:03 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 2 January 2015 at 17:58, John Kasunich jmkasun...@fastmail.fm wrote: Also, I have a simple mechanical question: How is the cutting wire kept tight? Cable bipods don't have any ability to resist tension perpendicular to their plane.

Re: [Emc-users] Advanced bipod question

2015-01-02 Thread andy pugh
On 2 January 2015 at 17:58, John Kasunich jmkasun...@fastmail.fm wrote: Also, I have a simple mechanical question: How is the cutting wire kept tight? Cable bipods don't have any ability to resist tension perpendicular to their plane. The archetypical version uses a wooden C-frame to tension

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc-sim on Mint 17.1 LTS

2015-01-02 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 01/02/2015 08:04 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 01 January 2015 23:12:22 Sebastian Kuzminsky did opine I personally prefer Debian Wheezy, which works out of the box using the new Live/Install Image. Instructions for that are here:

Re: [Emc-users] Advanced bipod question

2015-01-02 Thread John Kasunich
On Thu, Jan 1, 2015, at 04:40 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 1 January 2015 at 02:16, poormansairforce H poormansairfo...@gmail.com wrote: I have been trying to join the forum but can't get past the registration page, says there are errors:( You will get better answers here anyway. I

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc-sim on Mint 17.1 LTS

2015-01-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 02 January 2015 10:19:12 Sebastian Kuzminsky did opine And Gene did reply: On 01/02/2015 08:04 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 01 January 2015 23:12:22 Sebastian Kuzminsky did opine I personally prefer Debian Wheezy, which works out of the box using the new Live/Install