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General Mach Discussion / Re: Any news from Cabin Fever on Mach 4 ?

« on: April 20, 2013, 05:48:31 AM »

So to bump this up what happened to the video's ??

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Any news from Cabin Fever on Mach 4 ?

« on: April 15, 2013, 08:04:56 AM »

Thanks,
A most hopeful thread that says it all.

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General Mach Discussion / Any news from Cabin Fever on Mach 4 ?

« on: April 14, 2013, 09:03:04 AM »

Screen shots, video etc ??

John S.

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Newfangled Mill Wizard / Re: Things I noticed while using Mill Wizard

« on: March 27, 2013, 09:15:03 PM »

No support for multi tooth thread mill cutters in the new version, was in the old version.

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Newfangled Mill Wizard / Re: New Name for Mill Wizard ????

« on: March 27, 2013, 09:13:50 PM »

Also Mill Wizard is a program registered to Artcam, confusing and possibly in violation of the name ?
If you search for Mill wizard you get 10 hits up first for Artcam

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problems threading on the lathe

« on: October 31, 2009, 01:07:37 PM »

"Do not stand alone in the valley of darkness"   

RICH

No gave up on EMC.

John S.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problems threading on the lathe

« on: April 20, 2009, 08:25:13 PM »

Hood,
i was under the impression that the ab channels weren't working on the SS for threading ?

John s.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problems threading on the lathe

« on: April 10, 2009, 07:35:11 PM »

Will run first thing in the morning, midnight here and the bloody workshop is haunted anyway.

Last report of the 2HP motor geared for 600 rpm plus Hoods large spindle motor lead me to thing it's down to feed back from spindle speed.

Problem is most small modern machines use electronic variable speed of some description, unfortunately a reduction of speed will not give an increase of torque like the older pulley / gear driven machines.

John S.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problems threading on the lathe

« on: April 10, 2009, 08:59:37 AM »

Well my spindle speed sync is definitely ticked.

Hood, Your machine is probably the worse one to do any testing on. With 25 Hp at the spindle driving thru a mechanical gearbox it shouldn't alter speed by a tenth of a rev when threading. What are you using for an encoder ?

Has anyone other than Steve Blackmore tried using a normal encoder with Channel A and B on the Smooth Stepper ?

John S.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problems threading on the lathe

« on: April 10, 2009, 04:28:15 AM »

Rich,
Can you clarify that this test was with the smooth stepper and on one index pulse or from an encoder, if so how many count encoder ?
I was of the understanding that the SS was threading OK and it was just the parallel port that was having problems.

John S.