Re: [Emc-users] Docs clarification needed.

2012-02-07 Thread andy pugh
On 7 February 2012 08:31, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Anybody here know of a supplier for carbide drills in teeny wire sizes? eBay? http://www.ebay.com/itm/25-Micro-Carbide-Drill-Bits-Bit-PCB-Jewelry-CNC-/330683481262 -- atp The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth

Re: [Emc-users] Docs clarification needed.

2012-02-07 Thread Peter Blodow
Gene, you are probably using green glass fiber enforced epoxi board. For just that reason I am using the good old brown Pertinax material (phenol hardened resin paper board), whatever it may be named in the US. Normal cheap HSS drills last forever unless they break. Peter Blodow gene heskett

Re: [Emc-users] Docs clarification needed.

2012-02-07 Thread Jon Elson
gene heskett wrote: For stuff like this, it seems I should just buy an index of #10 to #70 carbide drills, but so far all I have found in the catalogs are TiN HSS stuff. Anybody here know of a supplier for carbide drills in teeny wire sizes? Just look on eBay, there are a bunch of guys

Re: [Emc-users] Docs clarification needed.

2012-02-07 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, February 07, 2012 11:08:13 AM Greg Bernard did opine: Gene- Precise Bits has a good selection of tiny drills and endmills:http://www.precisebits.com/products/carbidebits/drills.asp?tsP T=wire. That led to Think Tinker which I've heard of favorably before, so I made out an

Re: [Emc-users] Docs clarification needed.

2012-02-07 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, February 07, 2012 01:59:57 PM andy pugh did opine: On 7 February 2012 08:31, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Anybody here know of a supplier for carbide drills in teeny wire sizes? eBay? http://www.ebay.com/itm/25-Micro-Carbide-Drill-Bits-Bit-PCB-Jewelry-CNC-

Re: [Emc-users] Docs clarification needed.

2012-02-07 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, February 07, 2012 02:08:07 PM Peter Blodow did opine: Gene, you are probably using green glass fiber enforced epoxi board. For just that reason I am using the good old brown Pertinax material (phenol hardened resin paper board), whatever it may be named in the US. Normal cheap

Re: [Emc-users] Docs clarification needed.

2012-02-07 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, February 07, 2012 02:23:02 PM Jon Elson did opine: gene heskett wrote: For stuff like this, it seems I should just buy an index of #10 to #70 carbide drills, but so far all I have found in the catalogs are TiN HSS stuff. Anybody here know of a supplier for carbide drills

Re: [Emc-users] Docs clarification needed.

2012-02-07 Thread Jon Elson
gene heskett wrote: That led to Think Tinker which I've heard of favorably before, so I made out an order, but they declined the card, and when I tried to back up and check it (there's a 5 digit balance), they cleared the order page. Not a friendly site at all for for doing business over

Re: [Emc-users] Docs clarification needed.

2012-02-07 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, February 07, 2012 11:45:23 PM Jon Elson did opine: gene heskett wrote: That led to Think Tinker which I've heard of favorably before, so I made out an order, but they declined the card, and when I tried to back up and check it (there's a 5 digit balance), they cleared the

Re: [Emc-users] Docs clarification needed.

2012-02-06 Thread andy pugh
On 6 February 2012 05:54, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Obviously I have to use G92 to install the Z offset that compensates for the drill length, that is unavoidable from my reading.  I have no lengths in my tool table since I'm using a drill chuck, making those lengths arbitrary and

Re: [Emc-users] Docs clarification needed.

2012-02-06 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, February 06, 2012 03:25:49 AM andy pugh did opine: On 6 February 2012 05:54, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Obviously I have to use G92 to install the Z offset that compensates for the drill length, that is unavoidable from my reading. I have no lengths in my tool table

Re: [Emc-users] Docs clarification needed.

2012-02-06 Thread andy pugh
On 6 February 2012 12:40, Erik Christiansen dva...@internode.on.net wrote: Gene, remembering your post about distaste for the tool table, Andy's opening sentence might put you off what seems a good suggestion, further down. Perhaps I should have been more clear that I was talking about the

Re: [Emc-users] Docs clarification needed.

2012-02-06 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, February 06, 2012 08:24:45 AM Erik Christiansen did opine: On 06.02.12 03:36, gene heskett wrote: On Monday, February 06, 2012 03:25:49 AM andy pugh did opine: I don't think that is obvious at all. In fact I think that G92 is the wrong way to do this, and the tool table is the

Re: [Emc-users] Docs clarification needed.

2012-02-06 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, February 07, 2012 01:14:47 AM andy pugh did opine: On 6 February 2012 12:40, Erik Christiansen dva...@internode.on.net wrote: Gene, remembering your post about distaste for the tool table, Andy's opening sentence might put you off what seems a good suggestion, further down.

Re: [Emc-users] Docs clarification needed.

2012-02-06 Thread Greg Bernard
microdrills at Harbor Freight for $5. -Greg From: gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 12:31 AM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Docs clarification needed. On Tuesday, February 07, 2012 01:14:47 AM andy pugh did

[Emc-users] Docs clarification needed.

2012-02-05 Thread gene heskett
Greetings Guys; 2 questions actually: 1. What is the schedule saying about the renaming of this list to linuxcnc-users@etc? 2. I apparently am having trouble understanding the G92 family docs, which state: G92 makes the current point have the coordinates you want