[Emc-users] OT - liquid pump for really cold temperature

2013-01-20 Thread Roland Jollivet
On 19 January 2013 23:22, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Winter has arrived with temperatures below -20C, so I finally decided to something about inability to start up car's engine in these cold mornings. There are lots of options for auxiliary heating with fuel and

Re: [Emc-users] OT - liquid pump for really cold temperature

2013-01-20 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Thank You, guys, for the answers! 2013/1/20 Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com: All my cars have, and all my former cars had, electrical heaters. You don't need a pump. There are universal models that sits in the cooler hose that works flawlessly. Well, there has to be something that makes

Re: [Emc-users] Glade question

2013-01-20 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2013/1/20 Chris Morley chrisinnana...@hotmail.com: Can you post your glade and handler file I put them in my site: www.cutting.lv/fileadmin/user_upload/plasma.ui www.cutting.lv/fileadmin/user_upload/plasma.py -- Viesturs If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto

Re: [Emc-users] Glade question

2013-01-20 Thread Chris Morley
From: viesturs.la...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 11:17:26 +0200 To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Glade question 2013/1/20 Chris Morley chrisinnana...@hotmail.com: Can you post your glade and handler file I put them in my site:

Re: [Emc-users] Glade question

2013-01-20 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2013/1/20 Chris Morley chrisinnana...@hotmail.com: From: viesturs.la...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 11:17:26 +0200 To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Glade question 2013/1/20 Chris Morley chrisinnana...@hotmail.com: Can you post your glade and handler

Re: [Emc-users] OT - liquid pump for really cold temperature

2013-01-20 Thread Kent A. Reed
Viesturs: A quick check with a search engine tells me there are tons of discussions of the relative merits of different heating techniques including opinionated folk living in extreme climates like northern Canada and Alaska, just to cite North America. If I were adding a heater to an

Re: [Emc-users] G76?

2013-01-20 Thread John Prentice (FS)
Gene, greetings -Original Message- From: Gene Heskett [mailto:ghesk...@wdtv.com] Sent: 20 January 2013 05:30 Has anyone cut any threads with g76 lately? I fired off a routine that 4 months back worked great, carving a 1/4-28 thread for me several times last fall. Tonight,

Re: [Emc-users] Adjusting Work Coordinates and Offsets?

2013-01-20 Thread andy pugh
On 17 January 2013 22:19, Todd Zuercher zuerc...@embarqmail.com wrote: The machine operators often need to make small adjustments to the depth of the carving, bumping it up or down a few thousanths. For that particular use-case it might be appropriate to have a PyVCP

Re: [Emc-users] OT - liquid pump for really cold temperature

2013-01-20 Thread John Stewart
Viesturs; We are in for another bout of cold weather, with night time lows of -30C. I have a block heater in my little Toyota Matrix, and when it's below about -20, I plug it in, and turn it on an hour or two before we try to start the car in the morning. It *does* make a difference. The

Re: [Emc-users] OT - liquid pump for really cold temperature

2013-01-20 Thread John Stewart
Viesturs; Another really off-topic post. Years ago, my wife at the time and I purchased a new diesel VW Golf. It came with the standard one year, anywhere in the world we'll fix it warranty. 6 months later, we were living in the Netherlands, and this car made it over with us. One month

Re: [Emc-users] G76?

2013-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 20 January 2013 11:28:00 Dave Caroline did opine: Message additions Copyright Sunday 20 January 2013 by Gene Heskett On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Greetings all; Has anyone cut any threads with g76 lately? yes and I checked the change

Re: [Emc-users] OT - liquid pump for really cold temperature

2013-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 20 January 2013 12:23:36 Viesturs Lācis did opine: Message additions Copyright Sunday 20 January 2013 by Gene Heskett Thank You, guys, for the answers! 2013/1/20 Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com: All my cars have, and all my former cars had, electrical heaters. You don't need a

Re: [Emc-users] G76?

2013-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 20 January 2013 12:36:58 John Prentice (FS) did opine: Message additions Copyright Sunday 20 January 2013 by Gene Heskett Gene, greetings -Original Message- From: Gene Heskett [mailto:ghesk...@wdtv.com] Sent: 20 January 2013 05:30 Has anyone cut any threads with g76

Re: [Emc-users] Adjusting Work Coordinates and Offsets?

2013-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 20 January 2013 12:41:50 andy pugh did opine: Message additions Copyright Sunday 20 January 2013 by Gene Heskett On 17 January 2013 22:19, Todd Zuercher zuerc...@embarqmail.com wrote: The machine operators often need to make small adjustments to the depth of

Re: [Emc-users] Glade question

2013-01-20 Thread Chris Morley
I put them in my site: www.cutting.lv/fileadmin/user_upload/plasma.ui www.cutting.lv/fileadmin/user_upload/plasma.py -- Viesturs Yes your handler file is not right. Can you just include your GLADE file? I want to load it in glade - copy and paste from website doesn't work.

Re: [Emc-users] Adjusting Work Coordinates and Offsets?

2013-01-20 Thread Todd Zuercher
This idea does sound very interesting. Now how do I do it? - Original Message - On Sunday 20 January 2013 12:41:50 andy pugh did opine: Message additions Copyright Sunday 20 January 2013 by Gene Heskett On 17 January 2013 22:19, Todd Zuercher

Re: [Emc-users] OT - liquid pump for really cold temperature

2013-01-20 Thread Sven Wesley
2013/1/20 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com Thank You, guys, for the answers! 2013/1/20 Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com: All my cars have, and all my former cars had, electrical heaters. You don't need a pump. There are universal models that sits in the cooler hose that works

Re: [Emc-users] Adjusting Work Coordinates and Offsets?

2013-01-20 Thread andy pugh
On 20 January 2013 20:46, Todd Zuercher zuerc...@embarqmail.com wrote: This idea does sound very interesting. Now how do I do it? http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/man/man9/offset.9.html Insert between Z-command and Z-motor-position. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't

Re: [Emc-users] OT - liquid pump for really cold temperature

2013-01-20 Thread andy pugh
On 19 January 2013 21:22, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: There are lots of options for auxiliary heating with fuel and electricity. Strangely enough, despite living somewhere where -5C is unusually cold, I know quite a bit about this subject. Nearly any modern car will have

Re: [Emc-users] Adjusting Work Coordinates and Offsets?

2013-01-20 Thread sam sokolik
I have used this to offset my z axis in proportion to spindle growth from heat. I did also put a limit3 before it the offset hal component so that it limited the distance, acceleration and velocity. sam On 01/20/2013 03:25 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 20 January 2013 20:46, Todd

Re: [Emc-users] G76?

2013-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 20 January 2013 18:45:33 Dave Caroline did opine: Message additions Copyright Sunday 20 January 2013 by Gene Heskett On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Greetings all; Has anyone cut any threads with g76 lately? yes and I checked the change

[Emc-users] Wire Labeling

2013-01-20 Thread Clint Washburn
I am looking to find out how these wire labels were made. Here is an example http://www.clintandheidi.com/multimedia/pictures/hitachiseiki/Tailstock+Jun ction.JPG.php . I don't even know what they call them. They are not heat shrink. They are kind of a sleeve that helps insulate the bare

Re: [Emc-users] OT - liquid pump for really cold temperature

2013-01-20 Thread Sven Wesley
2013/1/20 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com Nearly any modern car will have provision somewhere on the engine for a block heater. It is also likely to be in the right place too. Have you looked for a manufacturer-original part? Nearly every engine ever built sinces the 60's, I would say. Even my

Re: [Emc-users] Wire Labeling

2013-01-20 Thread Jon Elson
Clint Washburn wrote: I am looking to find out how these wire labels were made. Here is an example http://www.clintandheidi.com/multimedia/pictures/hitachiseiki/Tailstock+Jun ction.JPG.php I think Brady and Thomas Betts made systems to do these. They had a proprietary printer that

Re: [Emc-users] Wire Labeling

2013-01-20 Thread Bruce Layne
That process is thermal transfer (aka hot stamping) onto poly tubing. I've used them to slide over crimp ferrules. They do make some neat wire labels for terminals. One manufacturer is Cembre. http://www.cembre.com/US/U_NewsSiglatura.htm I had a Brady ID Pro, but the rechargeable battery

Re: [Emc-users] Wire Labeling

2013-01-20 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you just want some label markers and not that specific type, Panduit has quite a variety. I personally like the printable self-laminating labels:

Re: [Emc-users] OT - liquid pump for really cold temperature

2013-01-20 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.comwrote: Winter has arrived with temperatures below -20C, so I finally decided to something about inability to start up car's engine in these cold mornings. There are lots of options for auxiliary heating with fuel and

Re: [Emc-users] OT - liquid pump for really cold temperature

2013-01-20 Thread Peter Loron
We just had a cheap add-on mains-powered block heater (inline with the cooling system, as I recall) in our gas cars when we lived in upstate New York. -20C was common in the winter. -Pete On Jan 20, 2013, at 4:09 PM, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/1/20 andy pugh

Re: [Emc-users] Wire Labeling

2013-01-20 Thread Karl Schmidt
On 01/20/2013 07:41 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you just want some label markers and not that specific type, Panduit has quite a variety. I personally like the printable self-laminating labels:

Re: [Emc-users] Wire Labeling

2013-01-20 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 01/20/2013 09:53 PM, Karl Schmidt wrote: On 01/20/2013 07:41 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you just want some label markers and not that specific type, Panduit has quite a variety. I personally like the printable self-laminating labels:

[Emc-users] Mesa 7i43 and estop

2013-01-20 Thread Bruce Klawiter
I can't seem to find this information anywhere, if I use the Mesa 7i33 any I/O and 7i33 servo interface with LinuxCNC, if I hit the estop will I lose position and need to re-home my machine? Bruce -- Master Visual

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 7i43 and estop

2013-01-20 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 01/20/2013 10:03 PM, Bruce Klawiter wrote: I can't seem to find this information anywhere, if I use the Mesa 7i33 any I/O and 7i33 servo interface with LinuxCNC, if I hit the estop will I lose position and need to re-home my machine? The 7i33 is a servo amp, so I'll assume you're asking