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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Cylinder Heads

« on: January 21, 2012, 07:03:47 PM »

Things are loosening up and breaking in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnbwsLysqGk

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General Mach Discussion / Re: What's your fastest feed rate for your mill/parallel port.

« on: January 14, 2012, 07:03:17 AM »

Thanks Rich. Understood. Has anyone ever hit 200ipm for example??

Hello Mike!

I have a 1.8G machine with a BOB and Gecko. When I first setup I wrote a piece of Gcode to move around for a dozen or so moves and then return to a spot where I had 2 indicators setup. I would keep increasing the speed to see where I would start to miss steps. I got to 350ipm and the table zipped around in the pattern and returned to the indicators and zeroed them right out never losing a tenth. I finally backed the setting down to 200 and that's where it is today. I would have to check the setup but I think I'm at 35Khz kernel and 10,000 Steps per inch. Can't remember

Home built mill
12" X
7" Y
570oz steppers
Gecko @ 51 Volt
$5 breakout board

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Cylinder Heads

« on: December 29, 2011, 02:12:34 PM »

I'm looking for a guy named John Tober,  Tasman@

I have an update for the V8 plans and blower plans and your email address in my records will not allow me to send you the updates. Minor changes but I would like everyone to have the latest copy.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: 1/5th Scale V8 Blown

« on: December 15, 2011, 06:20:05 PM »

I finally have something to report. My friend Ron fired up the tubing bender and I made the flanges and then he came over to silver solder the pipes together. Unfortunately this will be about all for a while. Still working too much but I hear it might end after the holidays.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Mach3 not Doing what GCode says?

« on: December 06, 2011, 07:04:07 PM »

HIYA Steve The G0/G00 G1/G01  are interchangeable so that mach can comply with both type of coding.
Same with teh rest of the single digit Gcodes

Well that doesn't make me much help then does it. Learn something new every day.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Mach3 not Doing what GCode says?

« on: December 05, 2011, 07:18:21 PM »

I have never seen a G01 command. G0 is a rapid move and G1 is a move at feed rate but G01 is new to me.

Try setting the feed rate to 10 and then edit your code to be all G1. It should move slow and perform the code.

F10.00
G1 X15.035 Y12.440 A20.758 B7.212
G1 X15.085 Y12.503 A21.517 B8.179
G1 X15.125 Y12.573 A22.126 B9.248
G1 X15.154 Y12.648 A22.569 B10.394
G1 X15.171 Y12.726 A22.839 B11.594
G1 X15.177 Y12.806 A22.928 B12.820

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Tangent Corner / Re: The world's tiniest V12 engine.

« on: December 04, 2011, 08:58:08 PM »

But that is just an air motor not an IC.

(;-) TP

That is true but it is still an impressive machine. I have made a few air motors. It is real easy to make them small but not real easy to make them.

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Tangent Corner / Re: A Winter Project.

« on: October 16, 2011, 08:46:24 AM »

Go-kart?

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Input box help?

« on: September 25, 2011, 02:27:49 PM »

Worked like a charm!  Thanks again

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Input box help?

« on: September 25, 2011, 09:48:11 AM »

Roger that!

I missed the "Dlg1" part.

Thanks!