[Emc-users] Building sim on Ubuntu 15.04
I just built the simulator on Ubuntu 15.04. It was pretty straight forward, but I had to add a few missing packages: Ubuntu 15.04 also needed: apt-get install bwidget apt-get install libtk-img apt-get install Tclx I modified linuxcnc/debian/configure: diff configure configure.org 90,93d89 Ubuntu-15.04) # Vivid EXTRA_BUILD=dvipng,texlive-extra-utils,texlive-latex-recommended,texlive-fonts-recommended,ghostscript,imagemagick,texlive-font-utils,module-init-tools,bwidget,libtk-img,Tclx TCLTK_VERSION=8.6 ;; Seems to work fine, Andy -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] flashing with mesaflash?
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Drew Rogge wrote: Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 18:38:43 -0700 From: Drew Rogge d...@dasrogges.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] flashing with mesaflash? The bit file is what gets written to the board. Don't forget to power cycle your computer after installing. Not reboot, not restart, power cycle. The power cycle is necessary to write the code to the FPGA. Drew If you started with the 5I25 loaded with a fairly recent bitfile, you can also use mesaflash's --reload option to load the new bitfile into the FPGA instead of a power cycle On 6/30/15 6:32 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I have installed these file from 5i25.zip, into /lib/firmware/hm2/5i25: gene@GO704:/lib/firmware/hm2$ ls -l 5i25 total 348 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 340704 Sep 5 2014 5i25_prob_rfx2.bit -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9504 Jan 17 2014 5i25_prob_rfx2.xml But which is it that I am supposed to write to the 5i25, using mesaflash? ISTR its the .xml file but its been a year or so since the last time I did it. Some install docs in that 5i25.zip sure would be handy. Is there another site that does explain this? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Peter Wallace Mesa Electronics (\__/) (='.'=) This is Bunny. Copy and paste bunny into your ()_() signature to help him gain world domination. -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] CHNC Auction East Coast
Maybe not. google shows weight at closer to 5225. Not so bad unless you are shipping coast to coast. D On 06/30/2015 02:39 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Picture shows controller power on. It is my guess the machine is a running machine. On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Tuesday 30 June 2015 17:02:44 Mark Johnsen wrote: I couldn't figure out where this actually is located, buy New Jersey or somewhere around there: http://bid.acceleratedbuysell.com/cgi-bin/mnlist.cgi?perillo106/CP3 Mark Well, heres someones chance to own the gold standard for a few cents on the dollar. $1800? It can't be working. I do not have the physical room, nor the foundation to support it as my guess is north of 10,000 lbs. I wonder what is wrong with it? Controller tits up? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] flashing with mesaflash?
The bit file is what gets written to the board. Don't forget to power cycle your computer after installing. Not reboot, not restart, power cycle. The power cycle is necessary to write the code to the FPGA. Drew On 6/30/15 6:32 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I have installed these file from 5i25.zip, into /lib/firmware/hm2/5i25: gene@GO704:/lib/firmware/hm2$ ls -l 5i25 total 348 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 340704 Sep 5 2014 5i25_prob_rfx2.bit -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9504 Jan 17 2014 5i25_prob_rfx2.xml But which is it that I am supposed to write to the 5i25, using mesaflash? ISTR its the .xml file but its been a year or so since the last time I did it. Some install docs in that 5i25.zip sure would be handy. Is there another site that does explain this? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] flashing with mesaflash?
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Gene Heskett wrote: Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 23:26:15 -0400 From: Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] flashing with mesaflash? On Tuesday 30 June 2015 21:48:22 Peter C. Wallace wrote: On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Gene Heskett wrote: Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 21:32:48 -0400 From: Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-users] flashing with mesaflash? I have installed these file from 5i25.zip, into /lib/firmware/hm2/5i25: gene@GO704:/lib/firmware/hm2$ ls -l 5i25 total 348 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 340704 Sep 5 2014 5i25_prob_rfx2.bit -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9504 Jan 17 2014 5i25_prob_rfx2.xml But which is it that I am supposed to write to the 5i25, using mesaflash? ISTR its the .xml file but its been a year or so since the last time I did it. You write .bit files with mesaflash, for a 5I25 you want to make sure you write bitfiles that have a 5i25_x.bit file name also In this case, it looks like prob_rfx2.bit was the correct file. No errors on the --write, or --reload which according to the mesaflash --help screen, can sub for the power cycle. And I fooled around with pncconf and finally got it to write a config directory. But its too late to test it now. Tomorrow if I get the spindle motor re-installed. Whoever put it together at the factory ought to be fired, the black motor lead that connects to the load side of a back panel fuse holder, was not soldered, only being held against the connector tab by the heat shrink! Unforch, I am not going to have it carving parts by the 7th, when my youngest son is coming in for 2 or 3 days of target practice. The photo-interrupters and limit/home switches are predicted to arrive on the 7th. By then I expect the faster breakout board will have arrived. The 5I25 manual has an example command line Yes, for a configuration that is not of any great interest or use to me. What I need next is a translator table that converts the module numbers I see in pncconf, to pin numbers on plug 2 of the board. Humm, doesn't dmesg report that? Yes, it did on the lathe, so that will suffice there. And probably far less confusin because its as its seen at fire up LCNC time. I don't think I'd want to consider the complexity of a table that covered all possible options, it might nudify the amazon forest. Some install docs in that 5i25.zip sure would be handy. Specifically, where to put ALL the files in it. Thanks Peter. The bitfiles dont need to be installed anywhere, you just pick one thats appropriate for you application/daughtercard and write it. The .pin files are the referernce info for a particular configuration so for example prob_rfx2.pin shows the configuration modules and pinout Also mesaflash can display this information for installed hardware: sudo mesaflash --device 5i25 --readhmid Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Peter Wallace Mesa Electronics (\__/) (='.'=) This is Bunny. Copy and paste bunny into your ()_() signature to help him gain world domination. -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] CHNC Auction East Coast
Dunno but I sure would love to have one LOL Pete On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 8:05 PM, dave dengv...@charter.net wrote: Maybe not. google shows weight at closer to 5225. Not so bad unless you are shipping coast to coast. D On 06/30/2015 02:39 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Picture shows controller power on. It is my guess the machine is a running machine. On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Tuesday 30 June 2015 17:02:44 Mark Johnsen wrote: I couldn't figure out where this actually is located, buy New Jersey or somewhere around there: http://bid.acceleratedbuysell.com/cgi-bin/mnlist.cgi?perillo106/CP3 Mark Well, heres someones chance to own the gold standard for a few cents on the dollar. $1800? It can't be working. I do not have the physical room, nor the foundation to support it as my guess is north of 10,000 lbs. I wonder what is wrong with it? Controller tits up? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Pete Matos A and N Precision and Fabrication Maryville, Tennessee 865-236-8996 -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] flashing with mesaflash?
I have installed these file from 5i25.zip, into /lib/firmware/hm2/5i25: gene@GO704:/lib/firmware/hm2$ ls -l 5i25 total 348 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 340704 Sep 5 2014 5i25_prob_rfx2.bit -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9504 Jan 17 2014 5i25_prob_rfx2.xml But which is it that I am supposed to write to the 5i25, using mesaflash? ISTR its the .xml file but its been a year or so since the last time I did it. Some install docs in that 5i25.zip sure would be handy. Is there another site that does explain this? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] flashing with mesaflash?
On Tuesday 30 June 2015 21:48:22 Peter C. Wallace wrote: On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Gene Heskett wrote: Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 21:32:48 -0400 From: Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-users] flashing with mesaflash? I have installed these file from 5i25.zip, into /lib/firmware/hm2/5i25: gene@GO704:/lib/firmware/hm2$ ls -l 5i25 total 348 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 340704 Sep 5 2014 5i25_prob_rfx2.bit -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9504 Jan 17 2014 5i25_prob_rfx2.xml But which is it that I am supposed to write to the 5i25, using mesaflash? ISTR its the .xml file but its been a year or so since the last time I did it. You write .bit files with mesaflash, for a 5I25 you want to make sure you write bitfiles that have a 5i25_x.bit file name also In this case, it looks like prob_rfx2.bit was the correct file. No errors on the --write, or --reload which according to the mesaflash --help screen, can sub for the power cycle. And I fooled around with pncconf and finally got it to write a config directory. But its too late to test it now. Tomorrow if I get the spindle motor re-installed. Whoever put it together at the factory ought to be fired, the black motor lead that connects to the load side of a back panel fuse holder, was not soldered, only being held against the connector tab by the heat shrink! Unforch, I am not going to have it carving parts by the 7th, when my youngest son is coming in for 2 or 3 days of target practice. The photo-interrupters and limit/home switches are predicted to arrive on the 7th. By then I expect the faster breakout board will have arrived. The 5I25 manual has an example command line Yes, for a configuration that is not of any great interest or use to me. What I need next is a translator table that converts the module numbers I see in pncconf, to pin numbers on plug 2 of the board. Humm, doesn't dmesg report that? Yes, it did on the lathe, so that will suffice there. And probably far less confusin because its as its seen at fire up LCNC time. I don't think I'd want to consider the complexity of a table that covered all possible options, it might nudify the amazon forest. Some install docs in that 5i25.zip sure would be handy. Specifically, where to put ALL the files in it. Thanks Peter. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] flashing with mesaflash?
On Tuesday 30 June 2015 21:50:57 Peter C. Wallace wrote: On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Drew Rogge wrote: Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 18:38:43 -0700 From: Drew Rogge d...@dasrogges.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] flashing with mesaflash? The bit file is what gets written to the board. Don't forget to power cycle your computer after installing. Not reboot, not restart, power cycle. The power cycle is necessary to write the code to the FPGA. Drew If you started with the 5I25 loaded with a fairly recent bitfile, you can also use mesaflash's --reload option to load the new bitfile into the FPGA instead of a power cycle Yes, I did that an hour ago, over an ssh -Y session, looked like it worked as expected. On 6/30/15 6:32 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I have installed these file from 5i25.zip, into /lib/firmware/hm2/5i25: gene@GO704:/lib/firmware/hm2$ ls -l 5i25 total 348 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 340704 Sep 5 2014 5i25_prob_rfx2.bit -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9504 Jan 17 2014 5i25_prob_rfx2.xml But which is it that I am supposed to write to the 5i25, using mesaflash? ISTR its the .xml file but its been a year or so since the last time I did it. Some install docs in that 5i25.zip sure would be handy. Is there another site that does explain this? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Peter Wallace Mesa Electronics (\__/) (='.'=) This is Bunny. Copy and paste bunny into your ()_() signature to help him gain world domination. -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] flashing with mesaflash?
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Gene Heskett wrote: Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 21:32:48 -0400 From: Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-users] flashing with mesaflash? I have installed these file from 5i25.zip, into /lib/firmware/hm2/5i25: gene@GO704:/lib/firmware/hm2$ ls -l 5i25 total 348 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 340704 Sep 5 2014 5i25_prob_rfx2.bit -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9504 Jan 17 2014 5i25_prob_rfx2.xml But which is it that I am supposed to write to the 5i25, using mesaflash? ISTR its the .xml file but its been a year or so since the last time I did it. You write .bit files with mesaflash, for a 5I25 you want to make sure you write bitfiles that have a 5i25_x.bit file name also The 5I25 manual has an example command line Some install docs in that 5i25.zip sure would be handy. Is there another site that does explain this? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Peter Wallace Mesa Electronics (\__/) (='.'=) This is Bunny. Copy and paste bunny into your ()_() signature to help him gain world domination. -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] CHNC Auction East Coast
That could be a free Hardinge lathe. Buy it, keep the three phase DC power supply, motors and encoders and sell the rest of the controls to someone desperate to keep their old lathe running, or wanting spare controls as insurance to keep their old lathe running. Replace the old controls with much better LinuxCNC controls. Having seen what these old controls sell for, you might even make money after buying the lathe and LinuxCNC hardware! I replaced some very similar General Numatics controls (a mish mash of Fanuc and Siemens) on a giant CNC router of the same era (two 15HP spindles, four air drills, and a pseudo 4th axis 7.5 HP radial arm saw on the gantry). The controls were very primitive with little to no safe operating area shutdown or temperature monitoring on the power semiconductors, etc. Good riddance. I took a quick look online and saw some other good deals (but not this good) on nice old Hardinge lathes. $1800 seems insanely low. I paid $1200 for my small manual Clausing tool room lathe, and while it's in good shape where is counts, it looks ugly compared to this much more capable Hardinge CNC lathe with ten times the horsepower. I hope it goes to a good home and makes someone very happy. Bruce On 06/30/2015 08:13 PM, Pete Matos wrote: Dunno but I sure would love to have one LOL Pete On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 8:05 PM, dave dengv...@charter.net wrote: Maybe not. google shows weight at closer to 5225. Not so bad unless you are shipping coast to coast. D On 06/30/2015 02:39 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Picture shows controller power on. It is my guess the machine is a running machine. On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Tuesday 30 June 2015 17:02:44 Mark Johnsen wrote: I couldn't figure out where this actually is located, buy New Jersey or somewhere around there: http://bid.acceleratedbuysell.com/cgi-bin/mnlist.cgi?perillo106/CP3 Mark Well, heres someones chance to own the gold standard for a few cents on the dollar. $1800? It can't be working. I do not have the physical room, nor the foundation to support it as my guess is north of 10,000 lbs. I wonder what is wrong with it? Controller tits up? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] flashing with mesaflash?
On Wed, 1 Jul 2015, Gene Heskett wrote: Apparently not, if no bitfile has been written, its an error. But now it does work, thanks. IO Connections for P3 Pin# I/O Pri. funcSec. func Chan Pin funcPin Dir 1 0 IOPort None 14 1 IOPort PWM 0PWM (Out) 2 2 IOPort StepGen 0Step/Table1 (Out) 15 3 IOPort None 3 4 IOPort StepGen 0Dir/Table2 (Out) 16 5 IOPort PWM 0Dir (Out) 4 6 IOPort StepGen 1Step/Table1 (Out) 17 7 IOPort None 5 8 IOPort StepGen 1Dir/Table2 (Out) 6 9 IOPort StepGen 2Step/Table1 (Out) 7 10 IOPort StepGen 2Dir/Table2 (Out) 8 11 IOPort StepGen 3Step/Table1 (Out) 9 12 IOPort StepGen 3Dir/Table2 (Out) 10 13 IOPort None 11 14 IOPort QCount 0Quad-A (In) 12 15 IOPort QCount 0Quad-B (In) 13 16 IOPort QCount 0Quad-IDX(In) And that will let me fine tune the bob to send stuff to the correct motor. Pin 1 it says is e-stop out in most setups. How do I enable that to detect an oncard mal-event? pin 1 is available as GPIO (input or output) for any purpose And is there a way to make it bi-di? I see that in some configs. You can make bidirectional pins by setting the is_output and open_drain attributes of the selected GPIO pin. Thanks Peter. [...] Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Peter Wallace Mesa Electronics (\__/) (='.'=) This is Bunny. Copy and paste bunny into your ()_() signature to help him gain world domination. -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] flashing with mesaflash?
On Wednesday 01 July 2015 01:06:24 Peter C. Wallace wrote: On Wed, 1 Jul 2015, Gene Heskett wrote: Apparently not, if no bitfile has been written, its an error. But now it does work, thanks. [...] motor. Pin 1 it says is e-stop out in most setups. How do I enable that to detect an oncard mal-event? pin 1 is available as GPIO (input or output) for any purpose And is there a way to make it bi-di? I see that in some configs. You can make bidirectional pins by setting the is_output and open_drain attributes of the selected GPIO pin. Ahh, I've seen that in the docs, but the darned light never came on. Thanks Peter. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] flashing with mesaflash?
On Tuesday 30 June 2015 23:48:00 Peter C. Wallace wrote: [...] You write .bit files with mesaflash, for a 5I25 you want to make sure you write bitfiles that have a 5i25_x.bit file name also In this case, it looks like prob_rfx2.bit was the correct file. No errors on the --write, or --reload which according to the mesaflash --help screen, can sub for the power cycle. And I fooled around with pncconf and finally got it to write a config directory. But its too late to test it now. Tomorrow if I get the spindle motor re-installed. Whoever put it together at the factory ought to be fired, the black motor lead that connects to the load side of a back panel fuse holder, was not soldered, only being held against the connector tab by the heat shrink! Unforch, I am not going to have it carving parts by the 7th, when my youngest son is coming in for 2 or 3 days of target practice. The photo-interrupters and limit/home switches are predicted to arrive on the 7th. By then I expect the faster breakout board will have arrived. The 5I25 manual has an example command line Yes, for a configuration that is not of any great interest or use to me. What I need next is a translator table that converts the module numbers I see in pncconf, to pin numbers on plug 2 of the board. Humm, doesn't dmesg report that? Yes, it did on the lathe, so that will suffice there. And probably far less confusin because its as its seen at fire up LCNC time. I don't think I'd want to consider the complexity of a table that covered all possible options, it might nudify the amazon forest. Some install docs in that 5i25.zip sure would be handy. Specifically, where to put ALL the files in it. Thanks Peter. The bitfiles dont need to be installed anywhere, you just pick one thats appropriate for you application/daughtercard and write it. The .pin files are the referernce info for a particular configuration so for example prob_rfx2.pin shows the configuration modules and pinout That should be helpful. Also mesaflash can display this information for installed hardware: sudo mesaflash --device 5i25 --readhmid Apparently not, if no bitfile has been written, its an error. But now it does work, thanks. IO Connections for P3 Pin# I/O Pri. funcSec. func Chan Pin funcPin Dir 1 0 IOPort None 14 1 IOPort PWM 0PWM (Out) 2 2 IOPort StepGen 0Step/Table1 (Out) 15 3 IOPort None 3 4 IOPort StepGen 0Dir/Table2 (Out) 16 5 IOPort PWM 0Dir (Out) 4 6 IOPort StepGen 1Step/Table1 (Out) 17 7 IOPort None 5 8 IOPort StepGen 1Dir/Table2 (Out) 6 9 IOPort StepGen 2Step/Table1 (Out) 7 10 IOPort StepGen 2Dir/Table2 (Out) 8 11 IOPort StepGen 3Step/Table1 (Out) 9 12 IOPort StepGen 3Dir/Table2 (Out) 10 13 IOPort None 11 14 IOPort QCount 0Quad-A (In) 12 15 IOPort QCount 0Quad-B (In) 13 16 IOPort QCount 0Quad-IDX(In) And that will let me fine tune the bob to send stuff to the correct motor. Pin 1 it says is e-stop out in most setups. How do I enable that to detect an oncard mal-event? And is there a way to make it bi-di? I see that in some configs. Thanks Peter. [...] Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] OT: lathe cut-off tool FS advice
I believe G95 mode (feed per revolution) is handy for a lathe. Particularly for a cut-off. You directly set the chip thickness and keep it when rpm changes. BTW 2ipm with 2000rpm corresponds to 1 thou per rev... not 10-20 thou? -- Andrew 2015-06-30 17:53 GMT+03:00 Tom Easterday tom-...@bgp.nu: I am learning to use a CNC lathe. I like to learn from the mistake’s of others by repeating them myself ;-) I am cutting medium carbon steel (medium because I don’t really know what it is - not stainless, not tool steel, turns/faces easily enough). I have a narrow (0.088”) cutoff bar with a carbide insert. I used a program that I have called GWizard to get feeds and speeds and on it’s conservative setting for carbide cutoff tool in medium carbon steel it recommended 2000rpm and 2ipm. That was a disaster. It started off cutting a very heavy chip (10-20 thou thick) got about 1/3 into my 0.5” dia piece and then pushed it’s way to destroying the insert and bending the opening on the tool that holds the insert. What is the opposite of “just in time”? Well, that is when I hit estop. Luckily I have two ends on this cutoff tool so I have one more chance :-) I know I need to cut off as close to the spindle as possible. I know that cutting fluid is good thing, though I don’t have flood so will just be spraying or dripping something on it. But what would be good FS for doing this? A “machinist” recommended 600rpm and 0.6ipm using his rule-of-thumb machining formula…? Also, I believe I can do CSS but don’t really know anything about that yet, was just trying to do basic things first but if css would be better…Any advice would be welcome. -Tom -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] OT: Anilam Crusader M Documentation
Hello Guys, I have seen random posts about converting Anilam controls over to Linuxcnc, We just acquired a small vertical mill that has an Anilam Crusader M control on it, with zero documentation. The person we bought it off said everything worked, but had to get a few of the boards freshened up, and I now I have the control powered up, I just don't know where to go from here to get the servos moving. I was wondering if anyone had any literature on one of these controls, and if so, could I please take a look at it, to try to at least get it moving to see where I go from there, as to whether I put Linuxcnc on it, or get rid of it. -- Thanks Rick Lair Superior Roll Turning LLC 399 East Center Street Petersburg MI, 49270 PH: 734-279-1831 FAX: 734-279-1166 www.superiorroll.com -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] OT: lathe cut-off tool FS advice
I do not have hardly any CNC lathe experience but I have been running manual lathes for many many years. I must agree with Stuart about the carbide insert parting off tools. I never had much luck with them. Broke several of them and damaged the pocket holding the insert several times as well. A good blade HSS parting tool always worked best for me. I typically spin pretty slow, flood it with lube and sort of peck it in until I get thru. I look forward to the learning process of learning the CNC lathe operations soon as my CNC lathe build is getting revved up now. Of course the tool has to be perfectly perpendicular to the part and the center height is also very important. Basic lathe ops really but I have much to learn about CNC and CSS feeds and speeds on the CNC lathe ops. Good luck man. Pete On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com wrote: Gentlemen, My 2 cents (it is old experience) For my first 10 (1979-1989) years in a machine shop I ran mostly CNC lathes. Not exclusive but predominately lathes. Both operating and supervising. After that preface I will say I do not like carbide cut off tools. You can spend a LOT of money trying to cut off barstock with carbide. HSS cut off tools are too easy to resharpen and handle the slow surface speed of the center of the bar. You must go a slower speed but you can set it up and cut part after part after part when it is done right. Maybe today the carbide has improved but I have not seen the improvement. In some applications the carbide is fine ie (tubing - parts where the cut off is into a hole in the center of the bar). I have tried a lot of carbide cut off tools and did not like any for cutting solid barstock. thanks Stuart On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:05 AM, John Alexander Stewart ivatt...@gmail.com wrote: Tom; on my larger manual lathes, HSS tooling, I'd expect a chip load about 1/10 of what you are doing, and a speed about 1/5 to 1/10 of what you were trying. Mind you, maybe I'm a chicken, and I don't have Carbide cutoff experience, so don't take the above as gospel. JohnS. -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Addressee is the intended audience. If you are not the addressee then my consent is not given for you to read this email furthermore it is my wish you would close this without saving or reading, and cease and desist from saving or opening my private correspondence. Thank you for honoring my wish. -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Pete Matos A and N Precision and Fabrication Maryville, Tennessee 865-236-8996 -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] OT: lathe cut-off tool FS advice
I am learning to use a CNC lathe. I like to learn from the mistake’s of others by repeating them myself ;-) I am cutting medium carbon steel (medium because I don’t really know what it is - not stainless, not tool steel, turns/faces easily enough). I have a narrow (0.088”) cutoff bar with a carbide insert. I used a program that I have called GWizard to get feeds and speeds and on it’s conservative setting for carbide cutoff tool in medium carbon steel it recommended 2000rpm and 2ipm. That was a disaster. It started off cutting a very heavy chip (10-20 thou thick) got about 1/3 into my 0.5” dia piece and then pushed it’s way to destroying the insert and bending the opening on the tool that holds the insert. What is the opposite of “just in time”? Well, that is when I hit estop. Luckily I have two ends on this cutoff tool so I have one more chance :-) I know I need to cut off as close to the spindle as possible. I know that cutting fluid is good thing, though I don’t have flood so will just be spraying or dripping something on it. But what would be good FS for doing this? A “machinist” recommended 600rpm and 0.6ipm using his rule-of-thumb machining formula…? Also, I believe I can do CSS but don’t really know anything about that yet, was just trying to do basic things first but if css would be better…Any advice would be welcome. -Tom -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] OT: lathe cut-off tool FS advice
Tom; on my larger manual lathes, HSS tooling, I'd expect a chip load about 1/10 of what you are doing, and a speed about 1/5 to 1/10 of what you were trying. Mind you, maybe I'm a chicken, and I don't have Carbide cutoff experience, so don't take the above as gospel. JohnS. -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] OT: lathe cut-off tool FS advice
Gentlemen, My 2 cents (it is old experience) For my first 10 (1979-1989) years in a machine shop I ran mostly CNC lathes. Not exclusive but predominately lathes. Both operating and supervising. After that preface I will say I do not like carbide cut off tools. You can spend a LOT of money trying to cut off barstock with carbide. HSS cut off tools are too easy to resharpen and handle the slow surface speed of the center of the bar. You must go a slower speed but you can set it up and cut part after part after part when it is done right. Maybe today the carbide has improved but I have not seen the improvement. In some applications the carbide is fine ie (tubing - parts where the cut off is into a hole in the center of the bar). I have tried a lot of carbide cut off tools and did not like any for cutting solid barstock. thanks Stuart On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:05 AM, John Alexander Stewart ivatt...@gmail.com wrote: Tom; on my larger manual lathes, HSS tooling, I'd expect a chip load about 1/10 of what you are doing, and a speed about 1/5 to 1/10 of what you were trying. Mind you, maybe I'm a chicken, and I don't have Carbide cutoff experience, so don't take the above as gospel. JohnS. -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Addressee is the intended audience. If you are not the addressee then my consent is not given for you to read this email furthermore it is my wish you would close this without saving or reading, and cease and desist from saving or opening my private correspondence. Thank you for honoring my wish. -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] OT: lathe cut-off tool FS advice
Wow, thanks to all for the advice, I have lots to absorb! I am nearing overwhelming support of HSS vs carbide though. Will have to get some HSS blades for this holder and do some experiments. One question on this post: On Jun 30, 2015, at 12:45 PM, Andy Pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: With a HSS blade I would use 30 m/min and 0.03mm / Rev in CSS and FPR. That will be rather conservative for carbide and a lathe not made of rubber. 30m/min is the spindle rotation not feed, yes? And 0.03mm/Rev is the “chipload” or is that SFM? Sorry, mostly deal with imperial. -Tom -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] OT: lathe cut-off tool FS advice
On Tuesday 30 June 2015 12:45:16 Andy Pugh wrote: On 30 Jun 2015, at 16:53, Tom Easterday tom-...@bgp.nu wrote: A gmachinisth recommended 600rpm and 0.6ipm using his rule-of-thumb machining formulac? With a HSS blade I would use 30 m/min and 0.03mm / Rev in CSS and FPR. That will be rather conservative for carbide and a lathe not made of rubber. You just eliminated my 7x12. But you Knew that. ;-) I got to get a bigger lathe. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] OT: lathe cut-off tool FS advice
On 30 Jun 2015, at 18:01, Dave Caroline wrote: I used to drive a capstan for long periods, getting the blade right was key to less cleanup work, taper the end but the right amount for your material, part drops off no pip, then over travel to clean the bar pip. That was in my HSS days. I have now crossed over to a sandvick insert with is pretty damned good even on on a manual lathe http://www.greenwood-tools.co.uk/shopscr23.html http://www.sandvik.coromant.com/en-gb/products/t-max_q-cut/Pages/default.aspx That one gets my vote, for medium-to-large stock. 600rpm would be comfortably within its range for work up to about 40mm. It's my standard parting off tool. I switched from HSS some years ago, and have not regretted it. I believe HSS would provide a keener edge, but the carbide tool forces the chip inwards as it curls upwards, so it clears it out of the slot very effectively. I use much smaller and thinner carbide blades for smaller diameters and softer materials: the Mini-Thin Grooving and Cut-Off inserts from MSC Industrial. The tips are fragile and they must be mounted exactly at right angles to the axis, but they work a treat in thicknesses from 0.5mm to 2mm. I mostly use 1mm with a straight front to the tip. Marcus the inserts come in left right and flat forms, also reasonable for turning in tight places I also hand grind HSS for tiny clock/watch parts, getting the edge on centre is critical for good work Dave Caroline -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] OT: lathe cut-off tool FS advice
On Tuesday 30 June 2015 12:33:29 Chris Radek wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:53:58AM -0400, Tom Easterday wrote: Also, I believe I can do CSS but don???t really know anything about that yet Using CSS+FPR while parting bar stock makes all the difference in the world. Parting at a fixed RPM is terrible. Your choices are way too fast at the beginning or way too slow at the end, or most likely, BOTH. If someone tells you what fixed RPM and IPM to use, thank them politely and then ignore their advice. I have always used HSS parting tools and I shoot for a dead flat grind on the end so the chip comes straight out. (Some grind it at an angle to try to leave the pip on the bar and not the part - this has never really worked for me.) Me too. Make sure it's exactly on center height. I've usually used the time honored feeler blade method for vertical centering, with what is only so-so results. Plus the blades I have, tapered as usual, dull on the sides quicker than the tip. This requires several trips to the grinder per 1/4 of radius cut, so I wrote a wobble program to cut a wider groove, preventing the blade from being pinched in the groove. Cutting off, particularly for larger radii workpieces, I need help with, and have even finished the job by using the grove as a guide for a hacksaw, usually in reverse and using it as a pullsaw. Purty it ain't but is generally acceptable since that portion will be bored away before a 209 nipple for one of my BP rifles is finished. And I am still looking for a device to sharpen tools that I first saw in 1959 while our machinist was carving the bronze camera housings for the 2 tv cameras we put on the Trieste before it made that dive into the mohole in Feb 1960. A brass disk IRC, about 3 in diameter, spun by a phono motor at perhaps 200 rpms. It had two posts stuck up about 3 or so, one just cleared the edge of the disk, the other perhaps 3/4 on out. The guy had a tool holder that was a piece of swiss cheese, holes drilled thru it at every which angle. He could put a drop of diamond dust oil on the disk about every other day, drop the holder on the post swing it back and forth over the face of the spinning disk at the various angles he needed, walk back over to the big Clausing and bronze peeled off like it was warm butter using plain HSS steel tooling. Looked to be handier than good toilet paper in the outhouse, but I have never seen another sharpener like it. Do we have a tool that can do a better job of centering the height than gently pinching a feeler blade and eyeballing it vertically? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] OT: lathe cut-off tool FS advice
On 30 Jun 2015, at 16:53, Tom Easterday tom-...@bgp.nu wrote: A “machinist” recommended 600rpm and 0.6ipm using his rule-of-thumb machining formula…? With a HSS blade I would use 30 m/min and 0.03mm / Rev in CSS and FPR. That will be rather conservative for carbide and a lathe not made of rubber. -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] OT: lathe cut-off tool FS advice
I used to drive a capstan for long periods, getting the blade right was key to less cleanup work, taper the end but the right amount for your material, part drops off no pip, then over travel to clean the bar pip. That was in my HSS days. I have now crossed over to a sandvick insert with is pretty damned good even on on a manual lathe http://www.greenwood-tools.co.uk/shopscr23.html http://www.sandvik.coromant.com/en-gb/products/t-max_q-cut/Pages/default.aspx the inserts come in left right and flat forms, also reasonable for turning in tight places I also hand grind HSS for tiny clock/watch parts, getting the edge on centre is critical for good work Dave Caroline -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] OT: Anilam Crusader M Documentation
On Tuesday 30 June 2015 12:49:48 Mark Johnsen wrote: Rick, I have what you need. I just uploaded a zip file to my website and the following links should download the files if you paste them in browser. Let me know if they don't work, they did for me. http://www.ijohnsen.com/CrusaderM_Docs_All.zip http://www.ijohnsen.com/Supermax_YCM-16VS_Manual.pdf In the zip file above, the files of interest are: Cursader_M_3X_Programming.pdf (programming manual) Aux Codes 001.pdf (I apparently thought the aux code docs were important at one point) AUX CODES.pdf DNC 001.pdf. (for drip feeding if you want to do that). I do have a paper copy of the programming manual that is many many pages. I obviously don't need it anymore, so if you wanted to pay for shipping, I could send it out. Further, just this weekend I was taking pictures of all the circuit boards and control box and plan to put those on ebay when I get the chance. The zip file also has schematics and west amp servo info. The reason for my retrofit was that the monitor became intermittent and didn't work well at all. I wasn't sure if it was the monitor or something else (like noisy power from my 3ph converter). After contacting a company in Wisconsin (I think outside of Janesville), they thought the problem was a video chip and they wanted $500 to fix it and re-solder something?? After looking at the boards this past weekend, I was thinking it might not have been that hard, however I don't know what I don't know... It probably isn't, the usual problem with monitiors is high ESR in the power supply and related capacitors. You need an ESR measuring meter to verify, about a $200 bill for the one I am familiar with, called a Capacitor Wizard by its maker. $20-$40 for replacement caps, and the meter, is still cheaper than $500 to some guy who probably never saw a CET test. I am one of those critters. One question that I have to ask you to check if you get it running, is can you check to see what kind of 'dead-reckoning' you get between linear scale encoder counts? To try to describe dead-reckoning (PCW Term) it is the control system hunting between two encoder 'marks' on the linear scales when an axis is at rest. We see it because the linear scales are relatively coarse at 0.01mm spacing. I recall having a little bit of an issue w/ thnat w/ the Crusader M, but more of an issue w/ LinuxCNC. It's probably my tuning and I did take Chris Radek's advice and go more liberally w/ the gain on the west amp drive and now I experience times of little dead-reckoning and times of a lot of dead-reckoning. A solution is a fine resolution rotary encoder on the leadscrew... Good luck, Mark -- Message: 2 Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 10:49:17 -0400 From: Rick Lair r...@superiorroll.com Subject: [Emc-users] OT: Anilam Crusader M Documentation To: Emc Users emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: 5592ac6d.9010...@superiorroll.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Hello Guys, I have seen random posts about converting Anilam controls over to Linuxcnc, We just acquired a small vertical mill that has an Anilam Crusader M control on it, with zero documentation. The person we bought it off said everything worked, but had to get a few of the boards freshened up, and I now I have the control powered up, I just don't know where to go from here to get the servos moving. I was wondering if anyone had any literature on one of these controls, and if so, could I please take a look at it, to try to at least get it moving to see where I go from there, as to whether I put Linuxcnc on it, or get rid of it. -- Thanks Rick Lair Superior Roll Turning LLC 399 East Center Street Petersburg MI, 49270 PH: 734-279-1831 FAX: 734-279-1166 www.superiorroll.com -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today.
Re: [Emc-users] OT: lathe cut-off tool FS advice
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 02:01:28PM -0400, Tom Easterday wrote: 30m/min is the spindle rotation not feed, yes? And 0.03mm/Rev is the ???chipload??? or is that SFM? Sorry, mostly deal with imperial. 30m/min is the surface speed (100 sfm) .03/rev is the feed per rev (0.001 inch) nice easy cut in steel. -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] OT: lathe cut-off tool FS advice
On Tuesday 30 June 2015 10:53:58 Tom Easterday wrote: I am learning to use a CNC lathe. I like to learn from the mistake’s of others by repeating them myself ;-) Chuckle, BTDT, fun but hard on tooling. I am cutting medium carbon steel (medium because I don’t really know what it is - not stainless, not tool steel, turns/faces easily enough). I have a narrow (0.088”) cutoff bar with a carbide insert. I used a program that I have called GWizard to get feeds and speeds and on it’s conservative setting for carbide cutoff tool in medium carbon steel it recommended 2000rpm and 2ipm. That was a disaster. It started off cutting a very heavy chip (10-20 thou thick) got about 1/3 into my 0.5” dia piece and then pushed it’s way to destroying the insert and bending the opening on the tool that holds the insert. What is the opposite of “just in time”? Well, that is when I hit estop. Luckily I have two ends on this cutoff tool so I have one more chance :-) I know I need to cut off as close to the spindle as possible. I know that cutting fluid is good thing, though I don’t have flood so will just be spraying or dripping something on it. But what would be good FS for doing this? A “machinist” recommended 600rpm and 0.6ipm using his rule-of-thumb machining formula…? Also, I believe I can do CSS but don’t really know anything about that yet, was just trying to do basic things first but if css would be better…Any advice would be welcome. -Tom CSS is Constant Surface Speed. But you knew that Tom. A very nice idea but I find it is not overly useful for driving a cutoff blade as it runs my spindle out of rpms long before the job is done. Drive redesign is in the planning stage. And, my cutoff blade is steel, tapered profile. Because the side/corners dull with the amount of feed I can use with a puny powered spindle, I wrote a routine that cuts a couple thoiu, backs off, move half the blade sideways, then cuts about 4 thou, wobbling back and forth as it advances. This cuts me a slot wide enough that the blade doesn't bind in the slot even though I can see it bending sideways, but its a slow process if the work is over .5 in diameter. And I still have to stop and sharpen the blade several times. But it works well even in non-hardened A2. What I need to learn next, is how to properly heat treat/harden the A2 stuff I make. ;) -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] OT: Anilam Crusader M Documentation
Rick, I have what you need. I just uploaded a zip file to my website and the following links should download the files if you paste them in browser. Let me know if they don't work, they did for me. http://www.ijohnsen.com/CrusaderM_Docs_All.zip http://www.ijohnsen.com/Supermax_YCM-16VS_Manual.pdf In the zip file above, the files of interest are: Cursader_M_3X_Programming.pdf (programming manual) Aux Codes 001.pdf (I apparently thought the aux code docs were important at one point) AUX CODES.pdf DNC 001.pdf. (for drip feeding if you want to do that). I do have a paper copy of the programming manual that is many many pages. I obviously don't need it anymore, so if you wanted to pay for shipping, I could send it out. Further, just this weekend I was taking pictures of all the circuit boards and control box and plan to put those on ebay when I get the chance. The zip file also has schematics and west amp servo info. The reason for my retrofit was that the monitor became intermittent and didn't work well at all. I wasn't sure if it was the monitor or something else (like noisy power from my 3ph converter). After contacting a company in Wisconsin (I think outside of Janesville), they thought the problem was a video chip and they wanted $500 to fix it and re-solder something?? After looking at the boards this past weekend, I was thinking it might not have been that hard, however I don't know what I don't know... One question that I have to ask you to check if you get it running, is can you check to see what kind of 'dead-reckoning' you get between linear scale encoder counts? To try to describe dead-reckoning (PCW Term) it is the control system hunting between two encoder 'marks' on the linear scales when an axis is at rest. We see it because the linear scales are relatively coarse at 0.01mm spacing. I recall having a little bit of an issue w/ thnat w/ the Crusader M, but more of an issue w/ LinuxCNC. It's probably my tuning and I did take Chris Radek's advice and go more liberally w/ the gain on the west amp drive and now I experience times of little dead-reckoning and times of a lot of dead-reckoning. A solution is a fine resolution rotary encoder on the leadscrew... Good luck, Mark -- Message: 2 Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 10:49:17 -0400 From: Rick Lair r...@superiorroll.com Subject: [Emc-users] OT: Anilam Crusader M Documentation To: Emc Users emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: 5592ac6d.9010...@superiorroll.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Hello Guys, I have seen random posts about converting Anilam controls over to Linuxcnc, We just acquired a small vertical mill that has an Anilam Crusader M control on it, with zero documentation. The person we bought it off said everything worked, but had to get a few of the boards freshened up, and I now I have the control powered up, I just don't know where to go from here to get the servos moving. I was wondering if anyone had any literature on one of these controls, and if so, could I please take a look at it, to try to at least get it moving to see where I go from there, as to whether I put Linuxcnc on it, or get rid of it. -- Thanks Rick Lair Superior Roll Turning LLC 399 East Center Street Petersburg MI, 49270 PH: 734-279-1831 FAX: 734-279-1166 www.superiorroll.com -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] OT: lathe cut-off tool FS advice
On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:38 AM, Andrew pkm...@gmail.com wrote: I believe G95 mode (feed per revolution) is handy for a lathe. Particularly for a cut-off. You directly set the chip thickness and keep it when rpm changes. Perhaps you mean G33 Synchronized Spindle Motion? I don’t see a “feed per revolution” specifically in the GCode reference (http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gcode/gcode.html#sec:G92 http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gcode/gcode.html#sec:G92)… BTW 2ipm with 2000rpm corresponds to 1 thou per rev... not 10-20 thou? Yes, I tried today to measure the chip that came off (all curvy so had to flatten with pliers). I was apparently greatly exaggerating the thickness, I measure around .0035 to .0045 so bigger than the calculation said it would be but not as big as I had in my head (perhaps it was the stress of the moment ;-) I did check my feed to make sure the machine is moving at the correct speed and that is fine. -Tom -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] OT: lathe cut-off tool FS advice
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:53:58AM -0400, Tom Easterday wrote: Also, I believe I can do CSS but don???t really know anything about that yet Using CSS+FPR while parting bar stock makes all the difference in the world. Parting at a fixed RPM is terrible. Your choices are way too fast at the beginning or way too slow at the end, or most likely, BOTH. If someone tells you what fixed RPM and IPM to use, thank them politely and then ignore their advice. I have always used HSS parting tools and I shoot for a dead flat grind on the end so the chip comes straight out. (Some grind it at an angle to try to leave the pip on the bar and not the part - this has never really worked for me.) Make sure it's exactly on center height. -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] OT: lathe cut-off tool FS advice
On 30 Jun 2015, at 20:24, Tom Easterday tom-...@bgp.nu wrote: Perhaps you mean G33 Synchronized Spindle Motion? I don’t see a “feed per revolution” specifically in the GCode reference http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gcode/gcode.html#sec:G93-G94-G95-Mode -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] CHNC Auction East Coast
I couldn't figure out where this actually is located, buy New Jersey or somewhere around there: http://bid.acceleratedbuysell.com/cgi-bin/mnlist.cgi?perillo106/CP3 Mark -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] CHNC Auction East Coast
On Tuesday 30 June 2015 17:02:44 Mark Johnsen wrote: I couldn't figure out where this actually is located, buy New Jersey or somewhere around there: http://bid.acceleratedbuysell.com/cgi-bin/mnlist.cgi?perillo106/CP3 Mark Well, heres someones chance to own the gold standard for a few cents on the dollar. $1800? It can't be working. I do not have the physical room, nor the foundation to support it as my guess is north of 10,000 lbs. I wonder what is wrong with it? Controller tits up? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] OT: Anilam Crusader M Documentation
On 6/30/2015 11:19 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 30 June 2015 12:49:48 Mark Johnsen wrote: Rick, The reason for my retrofit was that the monitor became intermittent and didn't work well at all. I wasn't sure if it was the monitor or something else (like noisy power from my 3ph converter). After contacting a company in Wisconsin (I think outside of Janesville), they thought the problem was a video chip and they wanted $500 to fix it and re-solder something?? After looking at the boards this past weekend, I was thinking it might not have been that hard, however I don't know what I don't know... It probably isn't, the usual problem with monitiors is high ESR in the power supply and related capacitors. You need an ESR measuring meter to verify, about a $200 bill for the one I am familiar with, called a Capacitor Wizard by its maker. $20-$40 for replacement caps, and the meter, is still cheaper than $500 to some guy who probably never saw a CET test. I am one of those critters. On my mill it was because the monitor literally exploded. The end of the CRT neck was blown off and there were burned and blown up parts on its circuit board. So I got a mill for a decent price which became pretty close to free after selling off all the old electrics and all the un-needed manual parts in the head. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] More progress.
On Tuesday 30 June 2015 17:12:33 Gene Heskett wrote: In removal, lube and reassemble of the quill in the head, I discovered that lcd display's controls are all alternate action, in addition too very well debounced. Nice, but the manual of course doesn't meantion it loud enough to register. However, I had a stack of brass encoder wheels left from the lathe project, and laid one on them on top of the OEM 16 cycle wheel that drives the rpm display, although none too accurately as it takes several seconds to show a stable display, and its using tricks I used in some transmitter software to get the actual 4 digit number to display. Sucks, and I'm not too sure I care if it goes away as long as LCNC can display it. Any way, its OD is perfect +-10 thou, and the mounting holes for the OEM disk, only 2 of them, were an accidentally a perfect enough for the girls I go with fit, but I had to take it to the little mill and expand the center hole somewhat into the bolt circle diameter of the brass version. So it bolts up but sits low, so I need to find some washers for about 1.75mm bolts that are somewhat precisely made as it will take about 3 of them under it to jack the disk up and actually work with the existing slot interrupter. Then all I have to do is find 3 that match that interrupter, hopefully with Schmidt outputs active both ways. And make a new board for an A/B/X encoder. Outside pair follow the edge slots, the center one should sit just high enough to catch the index slot, whose circle diameter is about .15 smaller. Just inside the slots IOW. I did not expect to be so lucky on the wheel. Now if I could just figure out WTF my sugar is doing. At 3:30 am, nothing to eat since ab out 10pm, 138, slept in, at 11 AM 143, and now at 5pm, 154. And all I have had is black coffee since nominally midnight last night. I wonder when I'll run out... I'll go see if I can find something on fleabay. Did, but OC outputs, 10 with a 3m slot for $18 shipped. They may take a schotkey gate for buffer just to get the active outputs gobble up the long cable to LCNC noise. Fun games making one of these in miniature. With a single bolt mount off the side I can fine tune the quadrature a heck of a lot easier. Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] OT: Anilam Crusader M Documentation
On 6/30/2015 8:49 AM, Rick Lair wrote: Hello Guys, I have seen random posts about converting Anilam controls over to Linuxcnc, We just acquired a small vertical mill that has an Anilam Crusader M control on it, with zero documentation. The person we bought it off said everything worked, but had to get a few of the boards freshened up, and I now I have the control powered up, I just don't know where to go from here to get the servos moving. I was wondering if anyone had any literature on one of these controls, and if so, could I please take a look at it, to try to at least get it moving to see where I go from there, as to whether I put Linuxcnc on it, or get rid of it. When they're working, they work. There's a few videos on youtube of mills with the Crusader M system. They appear to be pretty slow. Another issue is high pitched noises if the driver boards aren't adjusted just right. When they don't work, they can be very expensive to put back to original. Surprisingly, the two driver boards I had were the hardest parts to sell on eBay - despite a price well below any other on eBay or anywhere else online. You can connect a PC to the RS232 port to 'drip feed' G-code to it in order to work around the small memory or if the micro tape drive is bad. Some have bypassed or removed the Anilam computer and connected an upgraded system to the original driver boards. The control panel in the monitor box connects via RS232C so it could be made to work as input for a PC control. Run it off a Mini-ITX or Beagle Bone Black and there will be plenty of room in the huge box for other things. Perhaps a mini fridge... --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] More progress.
In removal, lube and reassemble of the quill in the head, I discovered that lcd display's controls are all alternate action, in addition too very well debounced. Nice, but the manual of course doesn't meantion it loud enough to register. However, I had a stack of brass encoder wheels left from the lathe project, and laid one on them on top of the OEM 16 cycle wheel that drives the rpm display, although none too accurately as it takes several seconds to show a stable display, and its using tricks I used in some transmitter software to get the actual 4 digit number to display. Sucks, and I'm not too sure I care if it goes away as long as LCNC can display it. Any way, its OD is perfect +-10 thou, and the mounting holes for the OEM disk, only 2 of them, were an accidentally a perfect enough for the girls I go with fit, but I had to take it to the little mill and expand the center hole somewhat into the bolt circle diameter of the brass version. So it bolts up but sits low, so I need to find some washers for about 1.75mm bolts that are somewhat precisely made as it will take about 3 of them under it to jack the disk up and actually work with the existing slot interrupter. Then all I have to do is find 3 that match that interrupter, hopefully with Schmidt outputs active both ways. And make a new board for an A/B/X encoder. Outside pair follow the edge slots, the center one should sit just high enough to catch the index slot, whose circle diameter is about .15 smaller. Just inside the slots IOW. I did not expect to be so lucky on the wheel. Now if I could just figure out WTF my sugar is doing. At 3:30 am, nothing to eat since ab out 10pm, 138, slept in, at 11 AM 143, and now at 5pm, 154. And all I have had is black coffee since nominally midnight last night. I wonder when I'll run out... I'll go see if I can find something on fleabay. Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] CHNC Auction East Coast
Picture shows controller power on. It is my guess the machine is a running machine. On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Tuesday 30 June 2015 17:02:44 Mark Johnsen wrote: I couldn't figure out where this actually is located, buy New Jersey or somewhere around there: http://bid.acceleratedbuysell.com/cgi-bin/mnlist.cgi?perillo106/CP3 Mark Well, heres someones chance to own the gold standard for a few cents on the dollar. $1800? It can't be working. I do not have the physical room, nor the foundation to support it as my guess is north of 10,000 lbs. I wonder what is wrong with it? Controller tits up? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Addressee is the intended audience. If you are not the addressee then my consent is not given for you to read this email furthermore it is my wish you would close this without saving or reading, and cease and desist from saving or opening my private correspondence. Thank you for honoring my wish. -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] CHNC Auction East Coast
It says: All “MS” Lots are located in Paterson, NJ All “GP” Lots are located in Philadelphia, PA All “FM” Lots are located in Millington, NJ All “HM” Lots are located in Fairfield, NJ All “JS” Lots are located in Plattsburgh, NY All “CP” Lots are located in Linwood, PA All “NS” Lots are located in Palmetto, GA On Jun 30, 2015, at 5:02 PM, Mark Johnsen m...@ijohnsen.com wrote: I couldn't figure out where this actually is located, buy New Jersey or somewhere around there: http://bid.acceleratedbuysell.com/cgi-bin/mnlist.cgi?perillo106/CP3 Mark -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
