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General Mach Discussion / Re: dell pc

« on: July 23, 2013, 05:28:05 PM »

Have a nose at this thread.

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,24949.msg176480.html#msg176480

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General Mach Discussion / Re: BT30 spindle from scratch - with power drawbar and ATC of course

« on: July 22, 2013, 10:44:39 AM »

Ah but the million dollar question is...














Have you been hit by an arm yet ?


lol.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Machine stops in the middle of a program run

« on: July 18, 2013, 08:13:52 PM »

try increasing the debounce interval in general config to 2000

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Tangent Corner / Re: Ballscrew End Machining

« on: July 16, 2013, 07:31:06 PM »

For annealing, wrap a water soaked towel where you want to stop the heat treatment and use an induction heater.

For turning, bore a set of soft jaws and if the turned section is longish run it with a centre.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 Z axis problem

« on: July 15, 2013, 09:59:43 AM »

have you tried another keyboard

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to convert Boxford VMC to Mach3

« on: July 09, 2013, 06:32:14 PM »

it would be a lot easier to have a chst about this rather than run through, i'll pm you my number.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to convert Boxford VMC to Mach3

« on: July 09, 2013, 01:22:13 PM »

sorry Mike I thought i'd responded to your post. The 190 is a pretty cheap conversion.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to convert Boxford VMC to Mach3

« on: July 03, 2013, 05:23:06 PM »

Hi Mike, I've done a few, they're pretty easy.

Does yours have limit switches ?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 and Mach 4 Questions

« on: June 29, 2013, 08:30:32 PM »

if I remember i'm pretty sure it's a parting off operation, and probably about 25 - 30mm diameter

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 and Mach 4 Questions

« on: June 29, 2013, 06:08:52 PM »

I can help a bit here Hood, he's running 5000rpm max and metric units, not sure on the dia though