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2017-08-28 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Hi Johan You will have to provide a bit more detail in order to get assistance. Please explain what you mean by "does not hold size at all" Explain how: 1) you discovered the problem and 2) how you measured the result and 3) what you done to solve it thus far. Also give details on the

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2017-08-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 August 2017 03:49:17 Marius Liebenberg wrote: > Hi Johan > > You will have to provide a bit more detail in order to get assistance. > Please explain what you mean by "does not hold size at all" > Explain how: > 1) you discovered the problem and > 2) how you measured the result and >

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2017-08-28 Thread Johann Beukes
Hi Gene Thanks so much. Would it be possible to get yojr mail adress so I can send you some more info on the drives and so forth please? beukes1...@gmail.com Thanks On 28 Aug 2017 12:48, "Gene Heskett" wrote: > On Monday 28 August 2017 03:49:17 Marius Liebenberg wrote: > >

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2017-08-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 August 2017 07:02:27 Johann Beukes wrote: > Hi Gene > Thanks so much. Would it be possible to get yojr mail adress so I can > send you some more info on the drives and so forth please? > beukes1...@gmail.com Thanks > > On 28 Aug 2017 12:48, "Gene Heskett"

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2017-08-28 Thread jeremy youngs
My 860 drives gave me a very hard time early on.only much sifting through the Chenglish did I realize the drive steps on the rise and fall. Requiring 1/2 the steps calculated On Aug 27, 2017 11:12 PM, "Johann Beukes" wrote: > Hi guys > I am struggeling alot with my lathe X

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2017-08-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 August 2017 07:52:14 jeremy youngs wrote: > My 860 drives gave me a very hard time early on.only much sifting > through the Chenglish did I realize the drive steps on the rise and > fall. Requiring 1/2 the steps calculated. I have not found that to be the case here with a 'DM'860.

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2017-08-28 Thread Johann Beukes
Hi Jeremy How do I calculage that and where would I do the correction in the settings? Thanks On 28 Aug 2017 13:52, "jeremy youngs" wrote: > My 860 drives gave me a very hard time early on.only much sifting through > the Chenglish did I realize the drive steps on the rise

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2017-08-28 Thread Johann Beukes
Ok guys Here's some more info on my problem. I am very new to cnc so bare with me. For example: Let say I want to cut a 10mm OD. The first part will be spot on. The second will be 15 microns under and the third will be 15 microns over and so it fluctuates with no definate repeatablility. I have

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2017-08-28 Thread Ed
On 08/28/2017 03:25 PM, Johann Beukes wrote: Ok guys Here's some more info on my problem. I am very new to cnc so bare with me. For example: Let say I want to cut a 10mm OD. The first part will be spot on. The second will be 15 microns under and the third will be 15 microns over and so it

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2017-08-28 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Ed wrote: > Am I right that 15 microns translates to .00038 inches? More like 0.6mil--slightly more but still software problems aren't the likely cause. What is the expected resolution from a single motor step?