You might consider building a lightweight sub-table and just move that.
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Check out the machinekit web group for additional information.
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Check out some of these zynq boards, dual core arm with a fpga attached.
www.zedboard.org
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Gene: Bought the same scope as you. Don't leave it plugged in, so I haven't
seen the battery swelling (yet). It is definitely very nice to have an Oscope
that is isolated from everything except what I tie it to. BTW, Happy Birthday!
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I have looked at some gearing diagrams of gear hobbers and I noticed that a
'differential' gear set was included. What does that actually do? I suspect it
is for cutting prime number gears?
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OK, I know nothing about gear hobbing, but have seen that youtube video of the
little hobber, what kind of work would need to be done to build a cnc version
of such a machine?
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Logan STILL provides factory parts. (815) 943-6755. Had to buy a cluster gear
for my 1949 model Logan lathe About $210 and wait a week. I am totally
impressed.
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Having bought a couple of these imported chucks, I threw them away, not worth
even returning. I use Jacobs ball bearing race type drill chucks only. They
don't slip, they don't jamb, they run true, and they are still built by the
people who invented these things. I suggest a used one of these
When I needed to install a DRO on my mill, I found that toolmann had good
quality stuff, not too expensive and he will sell pieces. The scales appear to
be quadrature. try sa...@toolmann.net.
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,I too have a similar problem. Built a rotary table (small, about 4" dia).
Ordered a worm and wheel pair from Boston Gear, thought I ordered a 72 tooth
worm wheel, which moves 5 degrees per one rev of the worm, divided by 400
steps, resolves to 0.0125 degrees per pulse Can't accurately read
Excellent references on what actually works, and stays shipped is available
from any of the cnc machine tool manufacturers maintenance manuals. My
reference that I used to solve my 8 year long search for intermittent noise
problem is from Morbidelli, their U-15 machine (A woodworking oriented
I suggest looking at the AMP CPC connector family. Relatively small size for
the number of contacts, readily available including EBAY, gold contacts, tin
contacts. I do caution against putting the motor leads in with the encoder and
limit switch signals. Decades of pain and suffering is sure to
I suggest looking at a hydraulic approach. It eliminates all of the drive lash
problems with the rigidity problems that follow. Ingersoll Rand built a
prototype mill similiar to what you are describing, you may find getting in
touch with them to be useful. However it goes, I see this adventure
Been using a Zyxel NAS-320 device with two WD Red hard drives, real hardware
RAID, simple to setup, works straight away with Linux, and was inexpensive.
Basic box was about $150.00 / $175.00 not including the drives. Been running
non stop for at least two years.
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Worked at a shop that had a Lagun vertical mill with one of those pneumatic
cylinder/air impact type power tool changer things on it. Wore out the impact
sockets! Didn't matter what brand tried. Proto impact series, Williams, SnapOn,
Armstrong, etc. Finally figured it out, the socket HAS to be
I found that draftsight allowed me to define my mechanical elements and by
using the 'sticky' characteristics of the dimension function, I was able to
move the machine elements, snap the components back on the hinge points, and
have the dimensions follow the new position. About 5 min worth of
Gene: Try Cascade Tool. Also, get a copy of Fine Woodworking magazine and look
at the advertisments, should help you along the way.
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Gene: First place I look for switching supplies is Marlin P. Jones,
www.mpja.com . Good luck.
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What I envision, after watching 'The Little Hobber' on youtube about 100 times.
Doing hobbing with a mechanical connection between the Hobbing arbor and the
work arbor is painful, all those gears, can guarantee that I won't have the set
I need. I found on Ebay, tool suppliers, in China, selling
I am adapting a version of the little hobber and want to use linux-CNC to do
the ratio division between the hob and the work spindles. Additionally, a third
axis that is actually the feed needs to be incorporated. Any thoughts.
Found a really nice up / down counter on EBAY. Works immediately with single
ended rotary encoders. Although the description says that it does not display
negative numbers... It does! Has five digit display, four digits when counting
below zero, 0.56 in display, and cheap.
Gene:
McMaster Carr has metric version lovejoy couplings available, in most of the
standard sizes.
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I bought a no name 8 rotary table and found that the Vertex DP-3 index plate
set fits perfectly. After looking on the web for several hours for an indexing
chart, to no avail. I did one myself. The newer index plate set allows
divisions up to 100 without any missing values.
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The FIRST place I looked. Since the item does not have the standard 40:1 ratio,
the chart in my 22nd Edition did not have what I was looking for. I did a very
nice two pager in Word, have to find out how to upload it correctly. Sorry
about the delay.
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As Dirty Harry says A man needs to know his limitations ... A wooden framed
tool will change constantly over its life, just the nature of wood. A
reasonably priced starting point is 2 square steel tube, or 50mm square tube,
for our metric friends. Is it going to be flat enough for your
I want to thank all those who took the time to help. Here's what I did to save
this very nice Spanish machine tool. Used a plastic stiff putty knife and
scraped just the surface Using a couple of layers of paper towels over the
table that I'm cleaning, and soaked them with paint thinner for
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I just bought a 1975 vintage Anayak FV2 mill, imported to the US by DoAll. It
has so much grease, muck, and yuck on it, I need to clean it. So far I've tried
citrus based solvent, paint thinner, automotive, parts cleaner.. Applying
it via green and brown scotch brite pads. Any suggestions
Boris? Obviously, an oversize Van Norman vertical mill, I'd say 7,000 lbs or
so.
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As an older, not that aware, blonde, Polish, left handed, engineeer. I
can't keep track of more than one thing at a time. Out of self defense working
on PLC's and yes discrete hard wire ladder logic in machine tools, (since about
1965), I only use normally open switches with PLC's. It
Consider monitoring the weight of the hopper as an indication of it's fullness.
Omega Engineering has an entire catalog section on load cells and indicators.
Strain gages are also a possibility.
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Just a reminder, using this kind of equipment in the US does require a license
from the FCC! It is a radio transmitter and as such it does require compliance
with the rules. Had a furniture factory that used RF heating for setting glue,
worked great, BTW, but there it was, an FCC station
Check out www.lathes.co.uk, a website that has the most machine tool manuals I
have found. I just bought a 1970's vintage Anayak FV2 vertical mill, and he had
not only the operators manual but the parts list/detail drawings of the thing
as well. Not expensive at all, $68.00 US including
Having built multizone ovens and oven controls over the yearsYes, you can
control it with a general purpose machine control program, but the dedicated
temperature controllers you can buy on EBAY or occasionally from www.mpja.com
are very inexpensive and will give you much better control of
Avoid those Molex connectors! Read the data sheet! Not guaranteed to work after
25 mate/demate cycles! The AMP CPC family of connectors have something of a
chance of surviving, and have contact sets that can handle the loads expected.
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Using a autotransformer with a 220V in with a 110v out should do the job. It is
relatively small, and much cheaper than a fully isolated transformer. I bought
one in a toroidal configuration, 500VA size, about USD$35.00. Had three voltage
taps as well. I used it at 120V to get 60V AC for my
Well, I dug through the pumphouse, found an Automation Direct GS1 drive, hooked
it up. set the upper frequency for 400HZ. and it works! This motor has
a nameplate indicating it as a 0.8KW sized motor, about 1HP for some of the
audience. Should be very cheap to pick up. Next step is to
RE: using a washing machine motor
Tiny is a relative term. About 100mm squarish body, I'm comparing size to NEMA
motors. The other motor pic looks very clost to the one I have here. I still
have the drive card from the washer here, I'll go and retrieve it. I was
figuring on using a 1 1/2hp
Our Sears washing machine got replaced and I got the motor. Says 820W 3 phase,
195V, 320 hz, 17,000 rpm. Anyone messed with one of these with a vfd or a
vector drive? It's tiny, seems to be well built, shame to put it in the bin
without seeing what can be done with it.
I suggest checking out www.1000bulbs.com for the replacement T-8 LED tubes. I
like the 5600K color, the lack of humming from the ballast is very nice as
well, helps concentration, especially in small spaces. Very little heat, no 120
hz flickering. Models are available in 2ft, 4ft, and 8ft, with
You comment about McMaster Carr is right on target. Their sales office NEVER
closes. They do have good quality material, and they somehow get it to you in
record time. If you know someone who is a regular customer, they get a new
catalog about every six months, ask to get the old one. It is
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