Re: [Emc-users] depth stops for R8 while making tap hats?

2018-04-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 April 2018 23:25:16 Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > Pass #1 at makeing a 3 flute drill went to hell when my rotary decided > to not return to zero reliably. So I've added another 200 ns to the > step timings to see if that helps since this driver is an m542 with > unk step timing requir

Re: [Emc-users] depth stops for R8 while making tap hats?

2018-04-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 April 2018 14:25:53 Kenneth Lerman wrote: > Hey Gene, > > Wouldn't a square R-8 collet make things simpler? Something like this? > > I did find those on a google search quite some time back, but at $40 a copy, t

Re: [Emc-users] depth stops for R8 while making tap hats?

2018-04-12 Thread Kenneth Lerman
Hey Gene, Wouldn't a square R-8 collet make things simpler? Something like this? Then you could just use square stock for your tap holders. (Yeah, I know it's a bit late. But the idea just came to me in the middle of last nig

Re: [Emc-users] depth stops for R8 while making tap hats?

2018-04-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 April 2018 17:05:51 Ken Strauss wrote: > The next standard size smaller than 3.3mm is #30 which is 0.129 rather > than 0.125. > I meant to say that I had on site. My #30 is already used up in two different number drill sets. The 1/8" is working well after I wrote a peck routine t

Re: [Emc-users] depth stops for R8 while making tap hats?

2018-04-10 Thread Ken Strauss
The next standard size smaller than 3.3mm is #30 which is 0.129 rather than 0.125. > -Original Message- > From: Gene Heskett [mailto:ghesk...@shentel.net] > Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 4:25 PM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: [Emc-users] depth stops for R8 while making