Re: [Emc-users] Beam Stiffening?

2024-05-13 Thread gene heskett
On 5/13/24 16:47, Todd Zuercher via Emc-users wrote: Anyone have any brilliant ideas to stiffen a woefully inadequate cross beam on a gantry router without adding too much mass? What is there now is a 4" x 8" rectangular 3/8" walled extrusion that is 145" long. That has got to be north of

Re: [Emc-users] Beam Stiffening?

2024-05-13 Thread Dale Ertley via Emc-users
See cable beam stifferDo on 3 or 4 sides.Be safeDale 코스피 | | | | | | | | | | | 코스피 코스피 | | | On Monday, May 13, 2024 at 08:07:14 PM EDT, Dale Ertley wrote: Small blocks on the outside middle of beam on 3 or 4 sides of the beam with small aircraft cable attached

Re: [Emc-users] Beam Stiffening?

2024-05-13 Thread Dale Ertley via Emc-users
Small blocks on the outside middle of beam on 3 or 4 sides of the beam with small aircraft cable attached to each end pulled tight. Use small turn buckles to tighten the cables over the block on that one side.You may be able to reduce the mass of the beam with the added stiffness of the blocks

Re: [Emc-users] Beam Stiffening?

2024-05-13 Thread Ralph Stirling via Emc-users
Can you run a steel cable through it and tension it? Might stiffen it up some. -- Ralph On May 13, 2024 1:46 PM, Todd Zuercher via Emc-users wrote: CAUTION: This email originated from outside the Walla Walla University email system. Anyone have any brilliant ideas to stiffen a woefully

Re: [Emc-users] Beam Stiffening?

2024-05-13 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 13 May 2024 at 22:50, Chris Albertson wrote: > Adding anything inside is the worst place to add material. Yes, without a doubt, but it seems fair to assume that the ganry has slides and other components on the outside, but not on the inside. The base beam has an Iyy (bending in the

Re: [Emc-users] Beam Stiffening?

2024-05-13 Thread Chris Albertson
Adding anything inside is the worst place to add material. Add it outside. Stiffness is the cube of the beam thickness, so you really want to make it bigger. Then secondary to making it bigger is to improve the shape to remove those parallel sides. So it you are just going to epoxy

Re: [Emc-users] Beam Stiffening?

2024-05-13 Thread Chris Albertson
> On May 13, 2024, at 1:45 PM, Todd Zuercher via Emc-users > wrote: > > Anyone have any brilliant ideas to stiffen a woefully inadequate cross beam > on a gantry router without adding too much mass? What is there now is a 4" x > 8" rectangular 3/8" walled extrusion that is 145" long. > >

Re: [Emc-users] Global Named Parameter?

2024-05-13 Thread John Allwine
I still think analog inputs/outputs could be a good way to go. I haven't run any of this, but something like this for the Python HAL component: https://gist.github.com/jallwine/1a0ad4ffcee00f31e286c485ea38a609 And something like this to hook it up in HAL:

Re: [Emc-users] Beam Stiffening?

2024-05-13 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 13 May 2024 at 21:51, Todd Zuercher via Emc-users < emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > I'm less concerned about the actual stiffness and more worried about > dampening the wobble. > Maybe you could epoxy a smaller (aluminium?) extrusion or box inside the existing one? The epoxy

[Emc-users] Beam Stiffening?

2024-05-13 Thread Todd Zuercher via Emc-users
Anyone have any brilliant ideas to stiffen a woefully inadequate cross beam on a gantry router without adding too much mass? What is there now is a 4" x 8" rectangular 3/8" walled extrusion that is 145" long. Under normal jogging commands the two servos control the ends of this gantry

Re: [Emc-users] Global Named Parameter?

2024-05-13 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 10 May 2024 at 21:11, Todd Zuercher wrote: > But I need to read them when they are not applied. > You could apply them, read them, then revert. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and