Re: [Emc-users] Turning Polygons on Lathe

2008-02-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Ian W. Wright wrote: On Monday 11 February 2008, Ian W. Wright wrote: For those who were fascinated by the polygon turning have a look at this - http://tinyurl.com/2wqbvl , it achieves the same ends but without any extra power or synchronisation of spindle and

Re: [Emc-users] Turning Polygons on Lathe

2008-02-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Brian Pitt wrote: On Monday 11 February 2008 15:14, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 11 February 2008, Ian W. Wright wrote: For those who were fascinated by the polygon turning have a look at this - http://tinyurl.com/2wqbvl , it achieves the same ends but without any

Re: [Emc-users] Turning Polygons on Lathe

2008-02-11 Thread Kenneth Lerman
@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 9:15 PM Subject: [Emc-users] Turning Polygons on Lathe I saw this on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGq-9NNmr3ofeature=related Who is volunteering to do the kins for this? -- Kirk Wallace (California, USA http://www.wallacecompany.com

Re: [Emc-users] Turning Polygons on Lathe

2008-02-11 Thread Brian Pitt
On Monday 11 February 2008 15:14, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 11 February 2008, Ian W. Wright wrote: For those who were fascinated by the polygon turning have a look at this - http://tinyurl.com/2wqbvl , it achieves the same ends but without any extra power or synchronisation of spindle and

Re: [Emc-users] Turning Polygons on Lathe

2008-02-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 11 February 2008, Ian W. Wright wrote: For those who were fascinated by the polygon turning have a look at this - http://tinyurl.com/2wqbvl , it achieves the same ends but without any extra power or synchronisation of spindle and cutter! The video even gives a good indication of how you

Re: [Emc-users] Turning Polygons on Lathe

2008-02-09 Thread ben lipkowitz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGq-9NNmr3ofeature=related I notice thay didn't show the cutting tool clearly. I would have liked to see that. Here is an animation that shows the process: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7831550688320827327 The cutting tooth actually traces out an

Re: [Emc-users] Turning Polygons on Lathe

2008-02-09 Thread Dave Engvall
Well, I could be absolutely crazy but I got the impression it was a matter of precise and repeatable synchronization. I can visualize it but have not drawn it out yet. Dave On Feb 9, 2008, at 10:58 AM, Jon Elson wrote: Kirk Wallace wrote: I saw this on YouTube:

Re: [Emc-users] Turning Polygons on Lathe

2008-02-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 09 February 2008, ben lipkowitz wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGq-9NNmr3ofeature=related I notice thay didn't show the cutting tool clearly. I would have liked to see that. Here is an animation that shows the process:

Re: [Emc-users] Turning Polygons on Lathe

2008-02-09 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 12:58 -0600, Jon Elson wrote: Kirk Wallace wrote: I saw this on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGq-9NNmr3ofeature=related Who is volunteering to do the kins for this? I notice thay didn't show the cutting tool clearly. I would have liked to see

[Emc-users] Turning Polygons on Lathe

2008-02-08 Thread Kirk Wallace
I saw this on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGq-9NNmr3ofeature=related Who is volunteering to do the kins for this? -- Kirk Wallace (California, USA http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ Hardinge HNC lathe, Bridgeport mill conversion, doing XY now, Zubal lathe conversion

Re: [Emc-users] Turning Polygons on Lathe

2008-02-08 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 06:15:14PM -0800, Kirk Wallace wrote: I saw this on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGq-9NNmr3ofeature=related Who is volunteering to do the kins for this? I think the software is not hard. http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/man/man9/encoder_ratio.9.html