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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: New people welcome !! Come in here and introduce your self!
« on: July 05, 2007, 04:37:24 PM »
hello everyone! my name is Jim, i think my job title is officially vertical mill operator, i went to a vocational school the last 2 years of high school taking precision machining technologies, graduated in june. been an electronics hobbyist since before i was in school, i just recently started playing with PICs, was into CB and some other bands for a little while but that got me in trouble, ive been an overclocker for a few years now, started on a 66mhz P1 but due to work and the female i dont have much time for that stuff any more.
im in the process of buying an old warner & swasey no. 4 lathe, in which i want to eventually do a cnc conversion to. it has a 6 position turret at the tail and room for 5 tools on the cairrage. i intend to make the adapter plates and such to mount the servos, im sure i could cut gears if i absolutely have to, i want to build all of the electronics to interface the servos and limits and DRO pickups whatever they're called, spindle sensor and maybe a speed control even, i dunno.
i still have to get the area its goin into ready, need to pour a concrete slab and do somethin about the power issue, 3 phase motor and single phase source. if i can find schematics and everything for a phase converter i'd build one, otherwise i guess we'll have to buy a single phase motor.
ive been lookin aroud a little while and i havnt found much info on the hardware to interface with the comp the software is on. anyone have any links i probably overlooked to stuff on that? even a few products that are ready to run so i can get an idea od price?
thanks and i hope i get to spend some time here with the ahead adventure.
im in the process of buying an old warner & swasey no. 4 lathe, in which i want to eventually do a cnc conversion to. it has a 6 position turret at the tail and room for 5 tools on the cairrage. i intend to make the adapter plates and such to mount the servos, im sure i could cut gears if i absolutely have to, i want to build all of the electronics to interface the servos and limits and DRO pickups whatever they're called, spindle sensor and maybe a speed control even, i dunno.
i still have to get the area its goin into ready, need to pour a concrete slab and do somethin about the power issue, 3 phase motor and single phase source. if i can find schematics and everything for a phase converter i'd build one, otherwise i guess we'll have to buy a single phase motor.
ive been lookin aroud a little while and i havnt found much info on the hardware to interface with the comp the software is on. anyone have any links i probably overlooked to stuff on that? even a few products that are ready to run so i can get an idea od price?
thanks and i hope i get to spend some time here with the ahead adventure.