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

« on: April 11, 2011, 08:22:31 AM »

yup, not only is this fun to watch is informative. I've assembled a few hundred engines and thousends of transmissions but had no idea how sealing rings were made.


thanks again

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Return Called with no sub in effect...Looping

« on: April 10, 2011, 04:38:37 PM »

Jeff, TP,

Guys I want to thank you both for your help, but my brain is fried.  I have read Smid's 3rd edition programming manual over and over along with the Mach Turn pdf info and I just can't get my control to respond to the offsets.  I just realized that I have spent over 100hrs. troubleshooting a simple program with no progress...I give up.
Thanks,
Mariah

What helps me when I take in too much new information at one time is to give it a rest for a few days, when I go back to it I seem to forget a lot of useless junk and tend to find the solution quicker.....

Don't give up I've been lurking here for a year and these guy's will stick with it as long as you can!

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

« on: April 10, 2011, 03:56:03 AM »

awsome work, there are no words good enough  - not u the part

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool setting....?

« on: April 10, 2011, 03:50:34 AM »

The probe from IM is great, I like it so much I have two, 1 for tool setting and 1 for probing (the tool does both, but takes time to switch physical setup).

I keep the probe in a toolholder and have it in the tool table for everything from probing to just finding an edge.

The toolsetter is great if you break a tool mid job, 2 minutes or less and your back to chips

I think it's on sale?

nice people too.....

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Mach 3 G codes

« on: January 03, 2011, 01:05:24 PM »

top of this page     Support > Documentation

The video tutorials are very good also

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Making a tapered thread. Please help

« on: January 02, 2011, 11:17:33 AM »

my machines are Sherlines, the lathe spindle rotates.

I am unconventional

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Making a tapered thread. Please help

« on: January 01, 2011, 10:12:22 AM »

Can you rotate your spindle? cut the taper then the thread....

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Suggestions for software.

« on: December 26, 2010, 03:28:52 PM »

I bought SheetCam then meshcam. Sheet cam is good for flat stuff and mesh is more for 3d stuff. I like them both. Both are easy to use!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 and Windows 7 64 bit

« on: December 12, 2010, 12:08:51 PM »

smooth stepper, it's a usb device that act's like a buffer. They are said to work well

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: wood carving Golden Retriever (anja)

« on: November 19, 2010, 12:02:34 AM »

good looking dog