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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Plastic Injection Molding

« on: January 12, 2014, 08:34:26 PM »

keep Up the good work and keep posting 

Happy hunting

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: South Bend Fourteen Lathe conversion

« on: April 12, 2013, 04:28:52 PM »

The lower "apron" I suppose its called, is now dead weight.. only held o by a few bolts, from what i can tell its only job is an attachment point for the half nut..I have some 1" Alcoa plate ( 7075 ) , and was debating replacing the apron with this..and possibly adding another half nut or machining a bronze nut for minimizing backlash. Would this be a mistake?

I would be looking here or similar
http://rockfordballscrew.com/

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: South Bend Fourteen Lathe conversion

« on: April 11, 2013, 11:36:24 AM »

For you  "fourteen" owners, The aluminium tool holder "shelf"  hanging on the front of the machine consists of the two pieces of aluminum flat bar that hang onto edge, two pieces of alum angle drilled and tapped  for the flat bar to attach to,   and the back of the aluminum plate rests against the side..I'm going to finish it out with 1"x 1/2" tube around the edge to perty it up a bit. It will lift off with all the tools on it and is plenty stiff as is, although the tube will make it rigid...No welder required. Has worked out great so far.

   actually the toolholders will hang on the front of the chip pan with no modifications   which is kind of funny we end up with tons of tool holders

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: South Bend Fourteen Lathe conversion

« on: April 11, 2013, 11:33:43 AM »

I think you may end up putting a trigger directly on the spindle there is "play" in this desighn  "hood" on this message board could probably help with this problem you might send him a private message.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: South Bend Fourteen Lathe conversion

« on: April 11, 2013, 09:47:51 AM »

do you have an encoder on the spindle

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: South Bend Fourteen Lathe conversion

« on: March 15, 2013, 10:05:28 AM »

i am not sure if this will help
http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,17023.0.html
as far as computer help if you post those in the general section it will get more eyeballs  LOL.

Good luck
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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: South Bend Fourteen Lathe conversion

« on: March 14, 2013, 03:31:10 PM »

OK Ill bite. first what system did you purchase.  Does  it have separate drives for each axis and a breakout board. did it come as a complete unit or did you supply the computer ect...
were the motion control chips in the drives
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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: South Bend Fourteen Lathe conversion

« on: February 26, 2013, 08:05:46 PM »

pictures may be too large. there is a size limit I have forgotten what it is but i think the last ones I posted were at the upper limit.
This all sounds awsum I cannot wait for the photo's


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Share Your GCode / Re: Demo Gcode

« on: February 25, 2013, 10:20:02 AM »

not sure if this is under the limit (your mileage may very)     
http://www.cad2gcode.com/cncprojects/id14.html

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Archie's first cnc machine Bridgeport R2E4 Boss 9 to Mach 3

« on: February 18, 2013, 11:39:19 PM »

the FEAR thing again. you must do this or it MIGHT damage your engine.   this battle has already been won. but i guess it is rearing it's ugly head again.  as long as the computer is running dedicated to the machine and you are already comfortable with mach3 I am curious as to why you would even consider a different machine controller.
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