On Sun, 4 Dec 2022 at 00:32, John Dammeyer <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> The Z axis is more interesting.  Before homing I imagine the tail stock
> has to be loosened and moved all the way to the right as far away from the
> headstock to ensure finding a home switch.
>

My lathe uses a position.txt file hack and single-turn absolute resolvers
to avoid needing to home (generally)
But when it needs to home the home sensor is with the saddle all the way to
the right.
If I was doing it again I would have put a "tailstock sensor" in the saddle
as an extra limit switch.

-- 
atp
"A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed
for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics."
— George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912

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