Re: [Emc-users] Chinese grease zerk. 6mm

2013-02-10 Thread Mark Wendt
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Steve Blackmore st...@pilotltd.net wrote: That may work for most 'Murkan made machines, but those with the made overseas in Asia tend to have a pretty lousy fit for the standard grease gun fitting. Hi Mark - oil nipple heads often aren't the same size and shape as

Re: [Emc-users] Chinese grease zerk. 6mm

2013-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 10 February 2013 08:34:10 Mark Wendt did opine: Message additions Copyright Sunday 10 February 2013 by Gene Heskett On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Steve Blackmore st...@pilotltd.net wrote: That may work for most 'Murkan made machines, but those with the made overseas in Asia tend

Re: [Emc-users] Chinese grease zerk. 6mm

2013-02-10 Thread John Stewart
Mark; On 2013-02-10, at 7:45 AM, Mark Wendt wrote: Yah, I'd heard about some of the horror stories where folks had forced grease into an oil fitting. That was why I was concerned for Gene when he mentioned his grease gun wouldn't fit the zerk. A number of guys on Practical Machinist had

Re: [Emc-users] Chinese grease zerk. 6mm

2013-02-10 Thread Dave
On 2/10/2013 9:05 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 10 February 2013 08:34:10 Mark Wendt did opine: Message additions Copyright Sunday 10 February 2013 by Gene Heskett On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Steve Blackmorest...@pilotltd.net wrote: That may work for most 'Murkan

Re: [Emc-users] Pluto-Servo adaption for L298 H-bridge

2013-02-10 Thread Lars Andersson
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 09:38:46PM +0100, Lars Andersson wrote: LinuxCNC documentation says it would be possible to use the pluto-servo firmware to connect to a L298. I actually have a little sherline lathe retrofit that works this way. It has pittman motors run by L298. I haven't used

Re: [Emc-users] Chinese grease zerk. 6mm

2013-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 10 February 2013 09:56:28 Dave did opine: Message additions Copyright Sunday 10 February 2013 by Gene Heskett On 2/10/2013 9:05 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 10 February 2013 08:34:10 Mark Wendt did opine: Message additions Copyright Sunday 10 February 2013 by Gene Heskett

Re: [Emc-users] Chinese grease zerk. 6mm

2013-02-10 Thread Andy Pugh
On 10 Feb 2013, at 14:05, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: So, I need a 12mm bore, 18mm OD, .2mm thick shim washer to space the center races apart far enough that when I put the end cap back on the block, pushing in on the outer races, they will Turn a cup shape on the lathe, part

Re: [Emc-users] Chinese grease zerk. 6mm

2013-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 10 February 2013 11:55:13 Andy Pugh did opine: Message additions Copyright Sunday 10 February 2013 by Gene Heskett On 10 Feb 2013, at 14:05, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: So, I need a 12mm bore, 18mm OD, .2mm thick shim washer to space the center races apart far enough that

Re: [Emc-users] Chinese grease zerk. 6mm

2013-02-10 Thread andy pugh
On 10 February 2013 17:11, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Message additions Copyright Sunday 10 February 2013 by Gene Heskett Incidentally, this bugs me. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto

Re: [Emc-users] Pluto-Servo adaption for L298 H-bridge

2013-02-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/9/2013 2:38 PM, Lars Andersson wrote: Surprise! Quartus II 12.1 free does not support the EP1K10 device. Obviously EP1K10 has been supported before. Does anyone have an older version that supports EP1K10? If you're still looking for older

Re: [Emc-users] Chinese grease zerk. 6mm

2013-02-10 Thread John Thornton
McMaster Carr does not have a minimum order... I've ordered $2 parts from them, you still pay reasonable shipping on anything you order. John On 2/10/2013 8:05 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 10 February 2013 08:34:10 Mark Wendt did opine: Message additions Copyright Sunday 10 February 2013

Re: [Emc-users] Signal generator for induction heating

2013-02-10 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Thank you guys for your recomendations. I've been trying and succeded (more or less) using oscillators like the ones from the PC switching power supplies, all of this based on DIY circuits found on the internet. The thing is that, since I'm planning to use LCNC to move the coil along the part, it

Re: [Emc-users] Signal generator for induction heating

2013-02-10 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Hello Andy. http://imagebin.org/246204 Here's a picture of what I scoped the other day, this is the signal coming out from the IC's that we use to fire the igbt's, as you can see those spikes are a little dangerous I think. I've talking a lot with Tim and he's a great help, he's always helping

Re: [Emc-users] Signal generator for induction heating

2013-02-10 Thread jeremy youngs
leonardo have you seen this? http://www.fluxeon.com/Roy1200open.html there is a mailing list but I had a client problem and havent been able to resubscribe On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Andy. -- jeremy youngs

Re: [Emc-users] Chinese grease zerk. 6mm

2013-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 10 February 2013 17:20:45 Andy Pugh did opine: Message additions Copyright Sunday 10 February 2013 by Gene Heskett On 10 Feb 2013, at 14:05, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: So, I need a 12mm bore, 18mm OD, .2mm thick shim washer to space the center races apart far enough that

Re: [Emc-users] Chinese grease zerk. 6mm

2013-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 10 February 2013 18:31:55 andy pugh did opine: On 10 February 2013 17:11, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Message additions Copyright Sunday 10 February 2013 by Gene Heskett Incidentally, this bugs me. Sorry Andy. It's a pre-emptive strike as I am on a couple lists that

Re: [Emc-users] Chinese grease zerk. 6mm

2013-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 10 February 2013 18:42:48 John Thornton did opine: McMaster Carr does not have a minimum order... I've ordered $2 parts from them, you still pay reasonable shipping on anything you order. John Thats better, thanks John. Now to remember it. In any event, Andy gave me a clue that

Re: [Emc-users] Signal generator for induction heating

2013-02-10 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Hello Jeremy, Yes I've been asking some question around there, but lately since I'm using Tim's designs I talked mostly with him via email. I decided to ask here also because I know that there's a lot of people with plenty experience with power electronics, so I think it's a good place. The

Re: [Emc-users] Signal generator for induction heating

2013-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 10 February 2013 18:52:38 Leonardo Marsaglia did opine: Message additions Copyright Sunday 10 February 2013 by Gene Heskett Thank you guys for your recomendations. I've been trying and succeded (more or less) using oscillators like the ones from the PC switching power supplies, all

Re: [Emc-users] Signal generator for induction heating

2013-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 10 February 2013 19:01:08 Leonardo Marsaglia did opine: Message additions Copyright Sunday 10 February 2013 by Gene Heskett Hello Andy. http://imagebin.org/246204 Here's a picture of what I scoped the other day, this is the signal coming out from the IC's that we use to fire the

Re: [Emc-users] Signal generator for induction heating

2013-02-10 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Hello Gene, and thanks for your answer. I have the circuit in PDF format, would you like me to send it to you so you can see it? 2013/2/10 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com On Sunday 10 February 2013 19:01:08 Leonardo Marsaglia did opine: Message additions Copyright Sunday 10 February 2013 by

Re: [Emc-users] Signal generator for induction heating

2013-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 10 February 2013 20:58:28 Leonardo Marsaglia did opine: Hello Gene, and thanks for your answer. I have the circuit in PDF format, would you like me to send it to you so you can see it? Yes, please, PM because the server will strip attachments. Cheers, Gene -- There are four

Re: [Emc-users] Signal generator for induction heating

2013-02-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Post it online somewhere if you can and I'll review it as well. - From your scope image, I'd say it looks like you may have some grounding issues with your 'scope probe (as Gene mentioned, use a direct ground from the probe tip to a ground local to

Re: [Emc-users] Servo Tuning

2013-02-10 Thread a k
Hi Did anyone actually used implement this http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/examples/mpg.html Thanks aram On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Marshland Engineering marshl...@marshland.co.nz wrote: We finally have the test system up and running. We are running servo drives. The drives

[Emc-users] Easy 50% Duty Cycle in HAL for way lube pump?

2013-02-10 Thread John Murphy
The lube pump in my BossV is over-oiling everything. If I leave it powered, I come back to puddles of oil under every way after a long job. Of course, I don't want to run long jobs without it. I have the way lube tied to the spindle on signal, so I figured there ought to be a hal component that

Re: [Emc-users] Easy 50% Duty Cycle in HAL for way lube pump?

2013-02-10 Thread John Kasunich
ClassicLaddder can do that. Kind of killing ants with a sledgehammer unless you have other PLC-ish things to do as well. I bet you could cascade a pair of HAL one-shots, one would set the on-time, the other would trigger when the first one ends and determine the off-time. Then loop the second

Re: [Emc-users] Easy 50% Duty Cycle in HAL for way lube pump?

2013-02-10 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 02/11/2013 12:09 AM, John Kasunich wrote: ClassicLaddder can do that. Kind of killing ants with a sledgehammer unless you have other PLC-ish things to do as well. I bet you could cascade a pair of HAL one-shots, one would set the on-time, the other would trigger when the first one ends

Re: [Emc-users] Easy 50% Duty Cycle in HAL for way lube pump?

2013-02-10 Thread TJoseph Powderly
cascaded oneshots for programmable oscillator width of ontime and off time are setp'd there's a gui enable requires FP thread when 1st oneshot timesout, it trgrs the 2nd when 2nd times out, it trgrs the 1st aka when OnDone, trgr OffShot when OffDone, trgr OnShot the PMD. is a pyvcp panel parent

Re: [Emc-users] Signal generator for induction heating

2013-02-10 Thread Peter Blodow
Leonardo, if possible, I, too, would like to have the circuit diagram. I have done some experimenting on melting aluminum and brass with a copper coil driven by a 1800 W usual household induction heating plate circuit. Problem one is to bypass the security precautions, problem two is that the