[Emc-users] NFS mount & lockup [Was: micro-v belts, smaller]

2015-04-30 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 30.04.15 19:51, Gene Heskett wrote: > But I have a PITA in the machine that runs my lathe, its recently turned > into a crashomatic, with uptimes of about an hour! > > And since it is an nfs mount, when it crashes, it locks up the rest of > the machines that are mounting it. Thats the PITA p

Re: [Emc-users] Computer crashing. Re: micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On 4/30/2015 10:52 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> There's a 5 volt line not used on newer ATX power supplies so if you >> have a tester and it says that line is bad, look to see if the wire is >> not in the connector. > > I think the drive logic, in both drives, (rotating magnetic, and rotating > opti

[Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Roland Jollivet
Hi Gene Have you looked at RS components? http://za.rs-online.com/web/c/pneumatics-hydraulics-power-transmission/power-transmission-belts/timing-belts/?sra=p Regards Roland On 1 May 2015 at 05:15, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 30 April 2015 21:13:48 N. Christopher Perry wrote: > > Ouch!

Re: [Emc-users] Computer crashing. Re: micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 May 2015 00:07:29 Gregg Eshelman wrote: > On 4/30/2015 5:51 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I think I am going to have to find another PSU for it, there is no > > other rhyme or reason for it to go away in the middle of a job, like > > it has done 3x today. I padded up to the shop & tappe

[Emc-users] Computer crashing. Re: micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On 4/30/2015 5:51 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > I think I am going to have to find another PSU for it, there is no other > rhyme or reason for it to go away in the middle of a job, like it has > done 3x today. I padded up to the shop & tapped the reset button just > now so I'll be good for maybe an h

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 30 April 2015 23:07:02 Gregg Eshelman wrote: > On 4/30/2015 12:16 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I have been snooping around with my google-fu, and coming up a bit > > long. > > > > Long as in the smallest of tese belts with a kevlar backing, is a > > 3/8" wide 3 r

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On 4/30/2015 1:52 PM, Dave Cole wrote: > Micro V belts are apparently targeted at OEMs like car manufacturers who > can make their own pulleys and order thousands of custom spec belts. > > A friend of mine tried to buy a setup for a custom machine and nothing > was off the shelf and the selection o

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 30 April 2015 21:13:48 N. Christopher Perry wrote: > Ouch! They've been reasonable for the stuff I've been looking for > recently, so I thought they might be worth a look. That quote would > have given me sticker shock too. > > N. Christopher Perry I think, for those of you using thi

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On 4/30/2015 12:16 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I have been snooping around with my google-fu, and coming up a bit long. > > Long as in the smallest of tese belts with a kevlar backing, is a 3/8" > wide 3 ribber, 21" long. That is too long for what I am trying to do. You may have

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread MC Cason
They also have high shipping costs. A $15.00 MXL timing belt, was going to cost me $18.00 to ship, so I decided to go elsewhere. On 04/30/2015 08:13 PM, N. Christopher Perry wrote: > Ouch! They've been reasonable for the stuff I've been looking for recently, > so I thought they might be wort

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread N. Christopher Perry
Ouch! They've been reasonable for the stuff I've been looking for recently, so I thought they might be worth a look. That quote would have given me sticker shock too. N. Christopher Perry > On Apr 30, 2015, at 8:13 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Thursday 30 April 2015 18:19:57 N. Christoph

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 30 April 2015 18:19:57 N. Christopher Perry wrote: > Have you tried SDP?: SDP-SI.com > > N. Christopher Perry Thanks Christopher. I got an estimate for a belt & 2 timing pulleys from them about a year ago, but they wanted well over $300. I was tempted to ask if the pulley's were m

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 30 April 2015 16:14:43 Todd Zuercher wrote: > Try searching for a J section belt, I found some listed as small as 8" > OC length (what ever that means). > http://beltpalace.com/heavy-duty-belts-poly-v-ribbed--j-section.html I found that belt earlier today, someplace else at about a 4 d

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 30 April 2015 15:52:44 Dave Cole wrote: > Micro V belts are apparently targeted at OEMs like car manufacturers > who can make their own pulleys and order thousands of custom spec > belts. > > A friend of mine tried to buy a setup for a custom machine and nothing > was off the shelf and

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread N. Christopher Perry
Have you tried SDP?: SDP-SI.com N. Christopher Perry > On Apr 30, 2015, at 2:16 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > I have been snooping around with my google-fu, and coming up a bit long. > > Long as in the smallest of tese belts with a kevlar backing, is a 3/8" > wide 3 ribber,

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Todd Zuercher
Try searching for a J section belt, I found some listed as small as 8" OC length (what ever that means). http://beltpalace.com/heavy-duty-belts-poly-v-ribbed--j-section.html - Original Message - From: "Gene Heskett" To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 2:16:

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Dave Cole
Micro V belts are apparently targeted at OEMs like car manufacturers who can make their own pulleys and order thousands of custom spec belts. A friend of mine tried to buy a setup for a custom machine and nothing was off the shelf and the selection of belt lengths was very limited. He could ge

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 30 April 2015 14:16:55 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I have been snooping around with my google-fu, and coming up a bit > long. > > Long as in the smallest of tese belts with a kevlar backing, is a 3/8" > wide 3 ribber, 21" long. That is too long for what I am trying to do

[Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I have been snooping around with my google-fu, and coming up a bit long. Long as in the smallest of tese belts with a kevlar backing, is a 3/8" wide 3 ribber, 21" long. That is too long for what I am trying to do. What I have, under design but not carved just yet, would be a set

Re: [Emc-users] problem setting appropriate speeds in joint and world mode for 6 axis robot with genserkins

2015-04-30 Thread Christian Stöveken
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 6:35 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 30 April 2015 at 17:23, Christian Stöveken > wrote: > > When switching to world mode the speed limits from axis 1/2/3 apply for > > X/Y/Z which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. > > 123 or 012? > you are right: 012 of course. (robot a

Re: [Emc-users] problem setting appropriate speeds in joint and world mode for 6 axis robot with genserkins

2015-04-30 Thread Andrew
2015-04-30 19:23 GMT+03:00 Christian Stöveken : > So I found like a day and a half to work on our Mantuec R15 / granite > devices VSD-XE > project again. > > When trying to run some gcode (generated with RhinoCAM) I noticed > the robot was only moving very slowly in world mode in one direction (X

Re: [Emc-users] problem setting appropriate speeds in joint and world mode for 6 axis robot with genserkins

2015-04-30 Thread andy pugh
On 30 April 2015 at 17:23, Christian Stöveken wrote: > When switching to world mode the speed limits from axis 1/2/3 apply for > X/Y/Z which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. 123 or 012? Are the axes actually angular? I am not sure what difference that setting makes, but I _think_ it only

[Emc-users] problem setting appropriate speeds in joint and world mode for 6 axis robot with genserkins

2015-04-30 Thread Christian Stöveken
So I found like a day and a half to work on our Mantuec R15 / granite devices VSD-XE project again. When trying to run some gcode (generated with RhinoCAM) I noticed the robot was only moving very slowly in world mode in one direction (X axis). I setup all 6 axis as angular axis with the speed/ac

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc Fest for 2015

2015-04-30 Thread Ron Ginger
Tormach has signed up as a vendor and I am waiting for them to specify the seminars they want to deliver. Jon has said he is willing to do a linuxcnc user talk. There is room for more. Although my personal use is Mach I really want this workshop to maintain its broad coverage of hobby CNC as it