On Saturday 13 January 2018 23:56:21 Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On 13.01.18 19:59, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > I did get the mt5-5c adapter running pretty true, about half a thou
> > of runout in the bore of an ER-40 adapter plugged into it, but the
> > nut on the ER-40 is absolute trash. You can see
On 13.01.18 19:59, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I did get the mt5-5c adapter running pretty true, about half a thou of
> runout in the bore of an ER-40 adapter plugged into it, but the nut on
> the ER-40 is absolute trash. You can see it wobbling, and it pulls the
> nose of a collet sideways so bad
On Saturday 13 January 2018 18:47:46 andy pugh wrote:
> On 14 January 2018 at 00:27, wrote:
> > But, as can be seen in the image below, the various retraction paths
> > (in blue) are not along a single driveline. Why is that?
>
> I believe that this is to that every pass is the
On Saturday 13 January 2018 17:27:39 tom-...@bgp.nu wrote:
> Another question related to threading…. It is my understanding that
> when cutting internal threads (or external threads) that after a
> threading pass the tool should return to the driveline (“I”) in order
> to retract for the next
On Saturday 13 January 2018 13:17:19 tom-...@bgp.nu wrote:
> Gene,
>
> > On Jan 13, 2018, at 8:18 AM, Gene Heskett
> > wrote:
> >
> > This is confusing Tom. From the video I'd assume the enco is a slant
> > bed machine. So this s/b equ to a regular lathe, with the z axis
>
On 14 January 2018 at 00:27, wrote:
> But, as can be seen in the image below, the various retraction paths (in
> blue) are not along a single driveline. Why is that?
I believe that this is to that every pass is the same shape, so ensure that
everything is the same.
I am not
Another question related to threading…. It is my understanding that when
cutting internal threads (or external threads) that after a threading pass the
tool should return to the driveline (“I”) in order to retract for the next
pass. But, as can be seen in the image below, the various
Gene,
> On Jan 13, 2018, at 8:18 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
> This is confusing Tom. From the video I'd assume the enco is a slant bed
> machine. So this s/b equ to a regular lathe, with the z axis rotated
> some arbitrary, might not be 90 degrees CCW as viewed from the
On Saturday 13 January 2018 00:25:26 Tom Easterday wrote:
> We have been successfully using G76 for external threading on our
> EmcoTurn 120P lathe for some time. We haven’t yet used it for internal
> boring or threading. We have an application to make some internal Acme
> threads in a cylinder.