Re: [Emc-users] Documentaion Question / Addition

2017-04-02 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 22:04:04 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 30 March 2017 15:07:41 John Kasunich wrote: > > > There was a time (in the late 1990's to early 2000's) when LinuxCNC > > (EMC back then) had three realtime threads. What we now know as the > > base and

[Emc-users] Ball nut catch and release

2017-04-02 Thread Cecil Thomas
The half-nuts on my jet 9 inch lathe finally got so bad that I decided to replace the Acme lead screw with a ball screw. I bought the cheapest ebay kit with 12 mm screw, nut, nut block and two supports. I really don't like to be required to fire up the computer and the control box and use the

Re: [Emc-users] Documentaion Question / Addition

2017-04-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 02 April 2017 15:22:08 Nicklas Karlsson wrote: > On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 22:04:04 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 30 March 2017 15:07:41 John Kasunich wrote: > > > There was a time (in the late 1990's to early 2000's) when > > > LinuxCNC (EMC back then)