Re: [Emc-users] correct x error from bed wear

2018-09-08 Thread Phillip Carter
On 9/9/18 1:14 pm, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 08 September 2018 22:34:06 Phillip Carter wrote: On 9/9/18 5:18 am, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I am about to give up on this bedwear comp project. How I determine the amount of correction needed has been tried by watching the dial

Re: [Emc-users] correct x error from bed wear

2018-09-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 08 September 2018 22:34:06 Phillip Carter wrote: > On 9/9/18 5:18 am, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I am about to give up on this bedwear comp project. > > > > How I determine the amount of correction needed has been tried by > > watching the dial as Z is moved,

Re: [Emc-users] correct x error from bed wear

2018-09-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 08 September 2018 22:03:21 jeremy youngs wrote: > Gene , can you mount a probe on the carriage and probe a lathe > alignment bar ( or drill rod )? I don't have a probe per sei on it. What I'm doing is sticking a mag base to the top of the toolpost holder base that has replaced the

Re: [Emc-users] correct x error from bed wear

2018-09-08 Thread Phillip Carter
On 9/9/18 5:18 am, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I am about to give up on this bedwear comp project. How I determine the amount of correction needed has been tried by watching the dial as Z is moved, taking notes as to which way the center of the wobble (the spindle is running about 15

Re: [Emc-users] correct x error from bed wear

2018-09-08 Thread jeremy youngs
Gene , can you mount a probe on the carriage and probe a lathe alignment bar ( or drill rod )? ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users

Re: [Emc-users] correct x error from bed wear

2018-09-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 08 September 2018 18:30:42 Chris Albertson wrote: > This has already been done on Merlin. Merlin is the software that > interpret g-code for most 3D printers. > I see, but that also is dealing with what effectively is a plain one dimension rendered in 3d. A lathe is a slightly

Re: [Emc-users] correct x error from bed wear

2018-09-08 Thread Chris Albertson
This has already been done on Merlin. Merlin is the software that interpret g-code for most 3D printers. The way it works is there is a distance sensor on the print head and it probes the entire bed in a grid pattern. It ALWAYS finds that the bed is not level and not flat. There are several

[Emc-users] correct x error from bed wear

2018-09-08 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I am about to give up on this bedwear comp project. How I determine the amount of correction needed has been tried by watching the dial as Z is moved, taking notes as to which way the center of the wobble (the spindle is running about 15 rpms) moves, and putting that DRO's RAD