castings.
I live in central Texas.
Hubert
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On 9/17/20 11:30 AM, dave engvall wrote:
Chris,
You might try Synergy, does the whole ball of wax. Not too expensive.
Takes time to learn. Parasolids based. 2D, 2.5D, 3D, wireframe,
solids, turning and probably something i missed. Unusual feature is
extrusion screws.
Runs on linux; will run
with the original.
Hello Hubert, and thanks for your feedback.
That really makes me feel a lot more confident about them. My major concern
was reliability because the idea is to use these 8 to 10 hours a days
easily. Since they are cheap enough I can always have a backup drive just
in case
On 9/11/20 2:21 PM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote:
Helo to all,
I found these on Aliexpress:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001376368510.html?spm=2114.12010612.8148356.2.5d5325f21j0XN8
These look like the ones I use on my Skyfire Mill. The only problem
I've had is over driving my x axis
growing
to the 14" x 40".
I currently have the pi4 4G the latest raspbian converted with RT-Prempt
but now I need to configure and use mesaflash. halcmd and halrun work
but I get errors with hm2_spi.
I can't seem to find the starting place. Please provide some hint
On 8/18/20 1:45 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 18 August 2020 13:44:11 hubert wrote:
Gene
Just browsing the Mesa Website and ran into the Above card.
http://www.mesanet.com/pdf/parallel/7c80man.pdf. This made me think
of your Sheldon controller and left me wondering If this would
Gene
Just browsing the Mesa Website and ran into the Above card.
http://www.mesanet.com/pdf/parallel/7c80man.pdf. This made me think of
your Sheldon controller and left me wondering If this would have made
your project easier. If so I have a couple of lathes I might convert
after I
s
on where to start would be appreciated.
Thanks, Hubert Bahr
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How many roller switches would you need. I have more than I need.
Hubert
On 3/31/19 12:14 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 31 March 2019 11:07:51 TJoseph Powderly wrote:
hi gene
maybe redesign to drive past the switch
like you can brush a wall mounted light switch by swiping your
On 09/20/2018 09:49 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 19 September 2018 21:13:55 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 19 September 2018 17:44:15 andy pugh wrote:
On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 at 21:40, Gene Heskett
wrote:
My little lathe is doing funny things with the z axis.
The halmeter menu cannot
in the second cabinet.
Should I run separate signal wires between the cabinets or is there some
way to transfer this function to the 7I84?
Thanks for any insight
Hubert
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lists the work he did for LinuxCNC.
On 6/15/17 6:34 PM, Chris Albertson wrote:
Certainly no one today would get a Phd for writing a CNC controller. But I
would not be surprised at all if he did not need to do a considerable
Danny where are you located, if you are in the Austin Tx area I am just
60 miles north of you.
My spindle is belt driven by an AC servo motor max 8000 RPM. While I do
have an addon 2 RPM Spindle for Micro Machining it is not ATC capable.
Hubert
On 5/11/17 11:42 AM, dan...@austin.rr.com
sure the spindle stopped in the right orientation for the tool
change.
Hubert
On 5/11/17 8:33 AM, Les Newell wrote:
> I have done a lathe ATC, which was fairly painless. I have a router that
> is due for a retrofit and it has an ATC. I'll probably be starting on it
> sometime around Ju
This is a HarmonicDrive FHA-40C-100-250E It has 4 wire encoder cable and
a 7 wire motor cable which includes power in and hall output. Some
models such as the 250US or 250D have quadrature output. Thanks for the
suggestions. The driver I have has various options for drive and
feedback, it
and index some how encoded into a serial data stream s, /s.
Hubert
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ing out of the 11"
dia x 3" thick grey cast Iron round, that I am using to make the housing
for my actuator. This should leave me about a 160mm x 76.2mm of stock
to make the two piece nose.
Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.
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requested
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 13:30:03 -0500
From: hubert <h...@hbahr.org>
To: andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com>
On 3/27/17 4:55 AM, andy pugh wrote:
> On 25 M
On 3/25/17 2:46 PM, Andrew wrote:
> 2017-03-25 6:08 GMT+02:00 hubert <h...@hbahr.org>:
>
>> I am looking for recommendations and/or advice for driving a
>> Harmonic-drive-systems FHA-40C-100-E250 Actuator that I will be using as
>> part of the 4th AXIS on my Mill.
On 3/25/17 2:46 PM, Andrew wrote:
> 2017-03-25 6:08 GMT+02:00 hubert <h...@hbahr.org>:
>
>> I am looking for recommendations and/or advice for driving a
>> Harmonic-drive-systems FHA-40C-100-E250 Actuator that I will be using as
>> part of the 4th AXIS on my Mill.
On 3/25/17 5:52 AM, andy pugh wrote:
> On 25 March 2017 at 04:08, hubert <h...@hbahr.org> wrote:
>> I am looking for recommendations and/or advice for driving a
>> Harmonic-drive-systems FHA-40C-100-E250 Actuator that I will be using as
>> part of the 4th AXIS on
a spare 750W driver that came with my spare Mill servo, that I
plan on using to test function.
I prefer to use step and direction to feed the driver, and would rather
buy than build.
Hubert
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On 3/23/17 5:38 PM, andy pugh wrote:
> On 23 March 2017 at 22:20, hubert <h...@hbahr.org> wrote:
>> My Bad it should have been this link
>> http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Harmonic-drive-systems-Used-FHA-40C-100-E250-AC-Servo-Actuator-/111964401976?hash=item1a11993138:g:3JsAAOSw
On 3/23/17 5:06 PM, andy pugh wrote:
> On 23 March 2017 at 21:45, hubert <h...@hbahr.org> wrote:
>> I am contemplating purchase of this one
>> http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Harmonic-drive-systems-Used-FHA-17C-100-E250-AC-Servo-Actuator-/111964389396?hash=item1a11990014:g:jCQAAOSw
On 3/23/17 4:13 PM, andy pugh wrote:
> On 23 March 2017 at 20:33, hubert <h...@hbahr.org> wrote:
>> I found this
>> http://harmonicdrive.de/mage/media/catalog/category/1018853_FHA_C_en.pdf
>> reference on harmonic drives
>> and noticed the 25 or 32 etc in t
On 3/23/17 3:14 PM, andy pugh wrote:
> On 23 March 2017 at 17:01, hubert <h...@hbahr.org> wrote:
>> I have a Grizzly G0709 lathe and they offer these as spare parts.
>>
>> http://www.grizzly.com/parts/P07090108?utm_campaign=zPage_source=grizzly.com
> Do they lis
On 3/23/17 2:09 PM, andy pugh wrote:
> On 23 March 2017 at 18:15, hubert <h...@hbahr.org> wrote:
>> SkyFire the builder of my mill offers a complete
>> ready to hook to my Mesa 7I86 8" Harmonic Drive for about $2000. It
>> isn't my dream solution, but doesn't
On 3/23/17 10:01 AM, andy pugh wrote:
> On 23 March 2017 at 01:23, hubert <h...@hbahr.org> wrote:
>> How are you approaching this project? I am assuming that you
>> are starting with a plate that will be attached to the 4th axis and
>> machining that plate to accept
Should be GO709
http://www.grizzly.com/products/g0709/parts
On 3/23/17 12:49 PM, hubert wrote:
> If you look in the GO790 Manual or parts list it shows the part.
>
>
> On 3/23/17 12:20 PM, andy pugh wrote:
>> On 23 March 2017 at 17:01, hubert <h...@hbahr.org> wrote:
&g
If you look in the GO790 Manual or parts list it shows the part.
On 3/23/17 12:20 PM, andy pugh wrote:
> On 23 March 2017 at 17:01, hubert <h...@hbahr.org> wrote:
>> I have a Grizzly G0709 lathe and they offer these as spare parts.
>> http://www.grizzly.com/parts/P
I have a Grizzly G0709 lathe and they offer these as spare parts.
http://www.grizzly.com/parts/P07090108?utm_campaign=zPage_source=grizzly.com
On 3/23/17 10:01 AM, andy pugh wrote:
> On 23 March 2017 at 01:23, hubert <h...@hbahr.org> wrote:
>> In my
>> case I can ge
?
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On 3/22/17 6:40 PM, andy pugh wrote:
> On 22 March 2017 at 23:33, Dave Cole <linuxcncro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> OK... 4th axis chuck.I get it.
> Well, to be clear, a 4th-axis spindle-nose
>
>
solution for the resonance solution but in my experience it works.
Hubert
On 1/24/17 8:49 AM, Ed wrote:
> On 01/23/2017 11:45 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greetings all;
>>
>> I see some "Nema 24" motors at quite reasonable prices showing up on
>> fleabay,
> SN
It looked interesting until I translated the model #. To me it looks
like it is 512 counts per turn for 8 turns. No where near the implied
4096 counts for up to 4096 turns.
Hubert
On 12/19/16 11:30 AM, andy pugh wrote:
> These look like something of a bargain:
> http://www.ebay.com/i
I will tackle the aluminum.
Thanks
Hubert
On 11/17/16 1:08 PM, Roland Jollivet wrote:
> You could practise with a piece of threaded rod(or bolt) in the chuck, and
> a nut held lightly in the vice. If the nut moves up or down during the tap
> cycle there's a problem. If you start
them, but that wouldn't give me
experience in rigid tapping.
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the limit switch for the head to clear the
tool changer. Also for some parts we need to make use of more of the
table than the Home switch allows. Is this a miss-configuration problem
or a deficiency? When we try to move past the home switch the machine
refuses to move.
Hubert
time I've needed to change units.
I still need to get all configuration parameters from the vendor, as I
still have the ATC, Tool setter and Reneshaw probe to add into the
system. This is based on a Mesa 5I25 7I76 interface.
Hubert
On 10/18/16 8:04 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday
locity and accel parameters. They're just numbers, the unit is
> assumed, and changing from mm to inches makes that number 25.4x slower
> outright.
>
> Danny
>
>
> On 10/17/2016 10:05 PM, hubert wrote:
>> My machine was initially setup by my vendor to mm. Personally I prefer
&
My machine was initially setup by my vendor to mm. Personally I prefer
inches. When I tried to adjust things in the .ini file it results in
the machine crawling. Is there another place I need to make changes. I
changed units from mm to in.
Thanks
Hubert
hasn't been welded, I will use HSS.
Thanks for the various comments, they gave needed insight.
Hubert
On 10/16/16 8:23 PM, Dave Cole wrote:
> Hubert,
>
> You might want to consider leaving the flange in place and to cut the
> tubing to shorten it/lengthen it.
> If you are making it s
steel or
carbide?
Thanks
Hubert
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Renishaw replied that it used a 12 volt rechargeable but the probe
became obsolete in the 90s. I have decided to assemble either a 10.8 or
14.4 battery out of rechargeable Lithium Button cells and see how that
works.
On 10/1/16 1:58 PM, Florian Rist wrote:
> Hi Hubert
>
>> Does
Does anybody know what batteries a Renishaw MP3 IR probe with a round
battery compartment uses. All the current literature shows a
compartment with 2 9-volt batteries.
Thanks
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I've also ordered some of the QSE159s plus some of the recommended LED's
to go with them. My probe is due in tomorrow but the testing will have
to wait since it appears my new SkyFire LinuxCNC machine has turned into
a kit instead of ready to run. I miss measured my Door opening to my
shop.
lost my first one to Cancer about 4 years
ago. That interrupted my self taught machining for a while.
Good Luck
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> Ideas welcome.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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On 9/20/16 11:12 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
> On 09/20/2016 06:27 PM, hubert wrote:
>> Jon
>>
>> I ordered some QSE159's to use as detectors and some ir leds for
>> generating turn on. I have an FPGA board and some arduino's to try for
>> the control logic. One
uickness , although i would be using a stm32 once
> iv'e figured it all out
> https://arduino-info.wikispaces.com/IR-RemoteControl
>
>
> On 20 September 2016 at 00:57, hubert <h...@hbahr.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> This thread and it's follow on triggered my int
Hi All
This thread and it's follow on triggered my interest, so I just snagged
a Renishaw MP3 probe on Ebay and now face the task of interfacing this
to my New CNC mill which I am due to pickup later this week. I ordered
the mill with LinuxCNC using the Mesa cards to interface to the
converted.
Hubert
On 4/16/16 7:06 PM, Ken Strauss wrote:
> Then as Andy mentioned I think that you're stuck with forcing everyone to
> use only one tool per file since I don't believe tht LinuxCNC allows
> jogging or adjusting offsets during a tool change. Just setup a dummy tool
> ta
On 4/6/16 11:12 AM, andy pugh wrote:
> On 6 April 2016 at 16:53, hubert <h...@hbahr.org> wrote:
>
>> They currently use drivers that convert step and direction to servo
>> control and have BOB that uses usb to talk to the computer. While it
>> would be easy for m
to my computer when it arrives.
Also which type on encoder should I ask for. Incremental or Absolute.
I am also going to ask them to prewire for an additional 2 rotary
axis. I currently have stepper controlled using Gecko 540.
Help!
Hubert
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Why do you have to buy Mach3 if it was already controlling the machine?
Dave On 3/29/2016 2:06 PM, hubert wr
I am purchasing a used CNC Mill using Stepper motors and a BLDC Spindle
motor. It currently is using Mach3 with a usb smooth stepper
interface. I found out I will either have to purchase Mach3, or as I
prefer convert it to use LinuxCNC. Since this is a much higher
performance system than I
than anybody else. I have looked at some of the others but not really
tried any since I have been happy with this solution.
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While I don't need to add a new project at this time this does peak my
interest, but it brings up some questions. What type of capabilities
can we expect to get by retrofitting one of these older NC machines?
I would think they should be more capable than a Chinese mill
conversion but what
indexing on a fourth axis. What it doesn't give you is cutting while
moving all axis. One thing about Synergy. The default values for
cutting speed etc. were based on production milling with production
equipment and tooling, so you need to adjust the values for a typical
home brew mill.
Hubert
to
actually write and maintain the software. And have been doing so for a
long time.
Hubert
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Subject: [Emc-users] CAM program
I've been looking at making a complete switch to linux and I wanted to get
some input from the group. I've been using EMC to run
the 3d version. Indexing types of
operations do not. I personally have the full solid modeling version
but I have not required it for cam purposes.
Hubert
Stephen Wille Padnos wrote:
Kasey Matejcek wrote:
I've got a project to do on my 4 axis mill x,y,z,a running EMC
A is parallel
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys, os
import gettext
BASE = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]), ..))
gettext.install(axis, localedir=os.path.join(BASE, share, locale),
unicode=True)
import emc, hal
import rs274.options
iniFile = emc.ini(os.environ['INI_FILE_NAME'])
emc.nmlfile
a
logic analyzer/oscilloscope viewpoint. Another user suggested using
Halscope part of EMC2. I haven't personally used it (I own an
oscilloscope) so to use it somebody else would need to coach. Since
earlier you mentioned breakout boards etc, this may be close to your
budget range.
Hubert
you have separate wires running from the power supply to each motor as
well as the 4 wires that connect to the driver card. If so what is the
resistance from the power cable to each of the phase wires?
Hubert
I was able to get a couple pics of the pin out header so they will be on my
blog
what you have and what it
takes to/repair or replace it.
Hubert
Martin Pinkston wrote:
O.k. guys, Now I really feel like an idiot.lol
You guys are freaking serious about this
I assumed I would get a little encouragement, but I guess I
under-assumed the levels of commitment to success
and Steppers the trick is determining which electronic
hardware components to plug in between the computer and the motor. Then
again how old is old.
Hubert
Martin Pinkston wrote:
Good afternoon group.
Well, my project (converting and old Centroid controller over to EMC2) has
hit a very large bump
to verify that everything is as planned before
hitting continue. Also make sure when you zero that you are in state.
The zeroing dialog defaults to G54 when quite often you are working in
G55 so you need to set it to G55 to correctly set the offset.
Hubert
Michael Grundvig wrote:
Note: I
Why even worry about windoz when Synergy is Native Linux Cad/Cam?
Hubert
Ian W. Wright wrote:
Gene,
I believe you can also run CamBam on linux using Virtualbox
but then you do need to install a version of windoze and run
it headless. I must admit to having my machine dual booting
out early. However, they will supply a code that lets you
continue. I had left mine running without realizing it and it timed
out but they graciously let me continue the trial for a full 30 days.
Hubert
John Thornton wrote:
On 11 Nov 2009 at 13:33, Hubert Bahr wrote:
John have you ever
/2
axis (basic milling or lathe) very reasonable with upgrades available
to full multi-axis solid capabilities. I chose the latter as I want to
play with 4 and 5 axis solids. I have found them extremely
knowledgeable about what is needed.
Hubert
although the Z axis
takes a much larger motor. I guess I am confused at what kind of speed
you would have on the Y axis with less than 4 of travel that would
cause bearing noise.
Hubert
Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 26 October 2009, Andy Pugh wrote:
2009/10/25 Gene Heskett gene.hesk
in an X1.
Hubert
Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 26 October 2009, Andy Pugh wrote:
2009/10/27 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com:
So where does one get ball screws cheap enough to use on an X1 upgrade?
Depends how cheap is cheap enough. eBay is one source, I got my 8mm
Y-axis
resolution. What resolution is required for tapping? Isn't the
starting edge of an index pulse sufficient, or do they need to track
loading on the spindle?
Hubert
Gene Heskett wrote:
snip
If threading is to be done, then emc must know the position of the spindle
pretty accurately. The usual
to determine which
size of FPGA to use. I think it will also allow me to use separate home
switches and possibly some control for a tool changer (dreaming).
Please warn me of pitfalls with this scheme.
Hubert
Hubert Bahr wrote:
I am actually working on two machines in parallel. An X2 and an X3
to the spindle pulley. I am looking to sync to speeds
over a range roughly from 50 to 6000 rpm.
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and provides an optical isolated output and uses a PWM input.
Thanks
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Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 09 October 2009, Hubert Bahr wrote:
Just some thinking out loud!! Is it possible to put a rotation detector
on a spindle, use
. This should be
sufficient to switch direction and power. The only need I anticipate
for reversing spindle direction is for rigid tapping, I guess I need to
study how that works in EMC2.
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Peter Homann wrote:
Hi Hubert,
You need to be careful connecting to the pot inputs of a lot of these type of
speed controllers. The usually put a DC voltage of anywhere between 7V to 15V
across the potentiometer. The kicker is that this voltage
, and since the
current controller appears to use a pot to adjust the speed and a switch
to change direction I believe I could use some type of control voltage
and a relay to replace the pot and switch. I would appreciate any
suggestions as I explore deeper.
Hubert
to change the current
linear position N to N MOD 360 without causing a physical move of the
machine, as my attempts with G10 L2 A 0 did not appear to have the
desired result.
Hubert
Stuart Stevenson wrote:
Gentlemen,
I can think of one scenario that the rotary (0-359.999) configuration
.
Thinking about it further I would rather live with it this way than
loose the ability to specify multiple rotations by rotating greater than
360 degrees. I like being able to mathematically describe a helix and
cut it as one long extended cut.
Hubert
Stuart Stevenson wrote:
Gentlemen,
I have
not
familiar with RTAI so I don't know what limitations might be lurking in
the shadows.
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the desired result. The goal is
to allow continued turning of the A axis without hitting the max value
limits. I prefer continued rotation to avoid backlash issues.
How does AXIS do it?
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to the
development board in the past so I was wondering how the 7i43 worked
with the Xilinx software. This board looked promising for some other
applications as well. I could send these type of questions to Mesa and
at this time they are not a primary concern just a potential added benefit.
Hubert
Sebastian
between
HostMot2 and just software generated step and direction?
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continue. I believe he did this in python. I can provide you a copy of
it as an example of possibly Leslie will chime in.
Hubert
Tim Hedlund wrote:
I sure could use some help jogging during a program. My project
involves laser beam
and makes the next move after hitting continue.
To me this definately makes Axis a more usable interface. I started
with a manual mill and am slowly advancing to a CNC system.
Thanks
Hubert
Leslie Newell wrote:
Hi Hubert,
Try this version. It still needs some work but at least it should run
that when switched the physical switch point must be highly
repeatable. So, how do you mount them and what type of device has the
necessary stability to serve this function.
Thanks
Hubert
the cost of the VFD drive is about the same as the single phase motor,
and is has the added advantage of giving you variable speed.
Hubert
Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings all;
I find I am in need of a bandsaw with at least 12.5 of resaw capability, and
I'm reluctant to buy a Rikon 10-325 to get
not been making to the list so I am sending it to you as well.
Thanks
Hubert
Leslie Newell wrote:
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controls have a 'teach mode' that records your jogs. You can then
replay the jogs either forwards or backwards. This is pretty much
to do this using MDI. The only option I see is breaking
the program in multiple pieces for each tool change. I guess I am using
2.2. At this time I do not have limit switches implemented.
Hubert
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