On Sunday, May 06, 2012 02:33:08 PM Jon Elson did opine: > gene heskett wrote: > > Thanks to all who helped, I cut another thread this evening, wrong of > > course but at least I now know why it was wrong. Hopefully the next > > one will be right. ;-) > > Progress comes in small steps, but as long as each step moves in the > right direction, that is good! > > Jon
;-) Exactly Jon. The next thing I fix is a much stronger X motor, but that will likely be a couple weeks since the couplings are of course coming from China. :( I have no clue as to the carriages balance with the heavier motor on the rear either. I may have to make a tapered gib setup for it that I saw someplace on the intertubes. :) And I need to pull the apron off and see if I can take a few thou of play out of the half nut ways. The reversing backlash move is a big growf. Ball bearing thrust washers on the leadscrew would help too I think, something I could preload a bit. I put those in the mills crank end of the screw bearings, helped a bunch there. What is the best practice to establish the X zero on a lathe? I am making a test cut, measuring it and dividing that by half to enter in a Touch Off. Has anyone else come up with a better idea that might be more usable? Mid job even while paused, take a measurement & correct before unpausing and finishing? Pause should stop the spindle, and resume should restart it & wait for speed, 2 seconds max on my toy unless running at polishing speeds. I guess that is a feature request. Or... Is this spindle stop & restart something that that could be 'wired' into the .hal file. Seems to me that could be done once hal was ones basic first language. Long winter night stuff. ;-) Thanks Jon. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> If it ain't broke, don't fix it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
