Re: [Emc-users] Need some advice

2016-05-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 14 May 2016 23:54:26 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 14 May 2016 23:24:17 Bruce Layne wrote: > > On 05/14/2016 06:14 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > 24" won't do, even once, what I might want to do with a 28 or 29 > > > raw rifle barrel. > > > > The first Clausing I found as an example

Re: [Emc-users] Need some advice

2016-05-14 Thread Andy Pugh
> On 14 May 2016, at 21:35, John Alexander Stewart wrote: > > I don't understand the issue with this. My go-to EMCO Compact-8 lathe has 3 > M8 bolts that you need to thread nuts on and tighten to hold chucks in > place. There is a version of this (possibly a DIN standard) which has keyhole slo

Re: [Emc-users] Need some advice

2016-05-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 14 May 2016 23:24:17 Bruce Layne wrote: > On 05/14/2016 06:14 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > 24" won't do, even once, what I might want to do with a 28 or 29 raw > > rifle barrel. > > The first Clausing I found as an example for you was a 10"X36", for a > bit more money, but I thought tha

Re: [Emc-users] Need some advice

2016-05-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 14 May 2016 21:35:11 John Alexander Stewart wrote: > On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 8:03 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > You are dreaming John, it has 3, maybe 6mm studs screwed into the > > back of the chuck, which fit thru matching holes in the spindles > > flange & you have to putz around 20

Re: [Emc-users] Need some advice

2016-05-14 Thread Bruce Layne
On 05/14/2016 06:14 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > 24" won't do, even once, what I might want to do with a 28 or 29 raw > rifle barrel. The first Clausing I found as an example for you was a 10"X36", for a bit more money, but I thought that might be a bit much in your small shop. I recall your con

Re: [Emc-users] hal edm (User interface) --> all kind of cutters

2016-05-14 Thread Thomas Powderly
hello nicklas On 05/15/16 06:19, Nicklas Karlsson wrote: > Well I am saying motion http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/man/man9/motion.9.html > assume tool is always a spindle while in reality there others. yes, spinning tools is subset of machining processes linuxcnc struggles with stationary too and

Re: [Emc-users] Need some advice

2016-05-14 Thread John Alexander Stewart
On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 8:03 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > You are dreaming John, it has 3, maybe 6mm studs screwed into the back of > the chuck, which fit thru matching holes in the spindles flange & you > have to putz around 20 minutes a nut to get the nut started straight, > because theres not a

Re: [Emc-users] Need some advice

2016-05-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 14 May 2016 18:44:54 John Thornton wrote: > Looks like a decent little lathe. Spindle speed is a bit low for that > size lathe , my old Taiwan Samson 16x48 gap bed will do 2020 in high > high. Bet you don't have any of the problems you have with the toy > lathe. The chuck sounds like a

Re: [Emc-users] Need some advice

2016-05-14 Thread John Thornton
I mean it looks ok for a manual lathe but not for a conversion to cnc. JT On 5/14/2016 12:55 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Since my toy lathe broke itself, again, and its made out of rubber > anyway, I was watching it fight with a dull chip that actually looked > good under a stro

Re: [Emc-users] Need some advice

2016-05-14 Thread John Thornton
Looks like a decent little lathe. Spindle speed is a bit low for that size lathe , my old Taiwan Samson 16x48 gap bed will do 2020 in high high. Bet you don't have any of the problems you have with the toy lathe. The chuck sounds like a D series chuck with is good. My Samson uses D1-6 I think

Re: [Emc-users] Need some advice

2016-05-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Advice? Don't carry cash when driving through Arkansas to buy anything expensive, like a metal lathe or a truck. Arkansas Trooper Steals $20,000, Because Nobody Innocent Carries That Much Cash | | | | || | | | | | Arkansas Trooper Steals $20,000, Because Nobody Innoc

Re: [Emc-users] hal edm (User interface) --> all kind of cutters

2016-05-14 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
Well I am saying motion http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/man/man9/motion.9.html assume tool is always a spindle while in reality there others. I have no idea if there any problems with this at any time but it does not reflect the reality. On Sat, 14 May 2016 23:56:24 +0800 Thomas Powderly wrot

Re: [Emc-users] Need some advice

2016-05-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 14 May 2016 16:56:33 Bruce Layne wrote: > Hi Gene, > > I have a Grizzly G1006 Chinese bench top mill drill that may be > getting the slowest LinuxCNC conversion in the world. It cost about > $1400 new, a long time ago, and it's probably paid for itself ten > times over. That being sa

Re: [Emc-users] Need some advice

2016-05-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 14 May 2016 16:29:32 Kenneth Lerman wrote: > Well, I noticed that the shipping weight is 550# and the machine > weight is 600#. Do you suppose they fill the box with helium? > > Seriously, though, the thing that drives me crazy about new lathes for > CNC conversion is that you are payi

Re: [Emc-users] Need some advice

2016-05-14 Thread andy pugh
Don't :-) -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1916 -- Mob

Re: [Emc-users] Need some advice

2016-05-14 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
Heavy cast iron machines cost money to mould but once in place it is a stable platform. On Sat, 14 May 2016 16:56:33 -0400 Bruce Layne wrote: > Hi Gene, > > I have a Grizzly G1006 Chinese bench top mill drill that may be getting > the slowest LinuxCNC conversion in the world. It cost about $

Re: [Emc-users] Need some advice

2016-05-14 Thread Bruce Layne
Hi Gene, I have a Grizzly G1006 Chinese bench top mill drill that may be getting the slowest LinuxCNC conversion in the world. It cost about $1400 new, a long time ago, and it's probably paid for itself ten times over. That being said, if I was buying a milling machine now, I'd buy a used but

Re: [Emc-users] Need some advice

2016-05-14 Thread Kenneth Lerman
Well, I noticed that the shipping weight is 550# and the machine weight is 600#. Do you suppose they fill the box with helium? Seriously, though, the thing that drives me crazy about new lathes for CNC conversion is that you are paying for a bunch of stuff you neither need nor want. * change gears

[Emc-users] Need some advice

2016-05-14 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; Since my toy lathe broke itself, again, and its made out of rubber anyway, I was watching it fight with a dull chip that actually looked good under a strong glass a couple days ago, and the major two sources of flex that induce chip breaking chatter are the spindle itself, and u

Re: [Emc-users] hal edm (User interface) --> all kind of cutters

2016-05-14 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
It is no problem, I do not use and it does not block anything, unused signals are a little bit of a clutter but no real problem. pyvcp and glade certainly seems to be the path. I looked at it a few hours ago but will stick to halmeter and hardcoded parameters for first cut. On Sat, 14 May 20

Re: [Emc-users] hal edm (User interface) --> all kind of cutters

2016-05-14 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
On Sat, 14 May 2016 23:40:48 +0800 Thomas Powderly wrote: > nicklas, i use no spindle in sink edm That't the point. "Cutting" tools I could come up with are: spindle, turning, EDM, laser cutter, water jet, plasma thorch, 3D printing and I have even seen sewing on this forum. Motion module have

Re: [Emc-users] hal edm (User interface) --> all kind of cutters

2016-05-14 Thread Thomas Powderly
nicklas if you are saying that the linixcnc tooltable is inadequate for edm dont use it!i use a file with all the data i need, mpre than 20 parameters per line and read it and assign the value to hardware for each EDM pass no need to be limited by the linuxcnc tool table. most cnc programming afte

Re: [Emc-users] Joint-Axis Branch?

2016-05-14 Thread Thomas Powderly
wow andy how many sections to this worm of a robot? shades of DUNE! you been at the spice again? ;-) i was just going to local rc shop for some rc servos to play with too! tomp tjtr33 On 05/14/16 05:47, andy pugh wrote: > On 13 May 2016 at 16:41, Dewey Garrett wrote: >>emc/motion/emcmotcfg.h:

Re: [Emc-users] hal edm (User interface) --> all kind of cutters

2016-05-14 Thread Thomas Powderly
nicklas, i use no spindle in sink edm tho an orienting axis 'C" on end of Z is common for me in non linuxcnc edm controls this is 'posing' it can allow a shape to be cut around some centrum for example molds often use radial arrays of cavities to equalize flow pressure i use mcodes a lot to set

Re: [Emc-users] 7i43 firnware problem after update

2016-05-14 Thread Andrew
2016-05-11 16:47 GMT+03:00 andy pugh: > Is this exactly the same config files as before, or did you regenerate > the config? > The config was the same, but the firmware might have been damaged. I found another firmware SVST6_6_7I48.BIT and it works for now. I would like to use a more standard fi