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PoKeys / Re: PoKeys Plug-in

« on: August 31, 2008, 09:07:50 PM »

Hi Hood,

Is you Lathe screen available for download.

Cheers,

Peter.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: My Lathe with the SmoothStepper

« on: August 30, 2008, 03:31:37 AM »

You are a week or two to late Peter, the olympics finished  last week,  then again the Chris Hoy is back home in Scotland now so you Aussie cyclists might not feel so bad

Have a good trip.

Hood

No Not really. I'm going to the Paralympics. They start on the 6th September. I'm going there to accept an award for my cycling achievements over the past 10 years.

http://www.homanndesigns.com/Cycling.html

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: My Lathe with the SmoothStepper

« on: August 29, 2008, 12:19:58 AM »

Peter
 Have attached a file for a similar stub shaft to the one I did earlier except just quite a bit smaller. I have made it with a DOC of 1mm for the roughing which should be fine for your lathe. The speeds and feeds should also be fine for you if you are using carbide, I have noted in the code the tools that I used. I ran the code on the lathe here with 38mm dia EN24 and have taken a pic with the phone but will have to wait until I get home to download. It probably wont be worth seeing as the phone camera is not that great Oh and the thread is M10
Hood

Hi Hood,

thanks for that. I'll let you know how I go. I'm off to China next week, so it may have to wait until after that, depends on how busy the weekend gets.

Cheers,

peter.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: My Lathe with the SmoothStepper

« on: August 24, 2008, 07:38:02 PM »

Hi Hood,

Spindle speed max is 2800

Max rapid is 7000mm/min

Cheers,

Peter.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: My Lathe with the SmoothStepper

« on: August 21, 2008, 06:09:35 PM »

Peter let me know the dia and  I will adapt that file to suit for you.
Hood

Hi Hood,

1.5" diameter should be fine.

Cheers,

Peter.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: My Lathe with the SmoothStepper

« on: August 19, 2008, 09:58:37 PM »

Peter, I could probably mount that in the turret
Ask John Prentice, I am sure he would have some suitable code.
 What kind of depths do you reckon you could take off in one pass, maybe the code I have for the pullstud in the video would suit, it is just taking light cuts due to the distance out of the spindle, I think its only taking 1mm DOC for the most part.

Hood

Hood,

I'll email John and see if he has anything appropriate. Basically I'm after something about 4" in length with a taper and a thread that is not too fine. This the stub axle.

As to depth of cuts, all I can say is that it is a 7x14. :-)

Cheers,

Peter.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: My Lathe with the SmoothStepper

« on: August 19, 2008, 03:28:14 AM »

Brett,

My lathe is close.

7x14 Asian import, weights about 50Kg I guess.

You could mount it on your cross slide from the sounds of it. 

Doesn't sound that suitable. I'm sure if I look hard enough I can find G-Code for a test piece.

Cheers,

Peter

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: My Lathe with the SmoothStepper

« on: August 18, 2008, 09:23:42 PM »

Hi Hood,

Nice video. I should be able to start cutting on my lathe this coming weekend. I saw on one of your videos where you made a stub axle. I'm after a Gcode file that I can use as a test program for my lathe. Initially, I'll be cutting an acetal style plastic to reduce the possibility of breaking things.

Would it be possible to get hold of your G-code, or of another G-Code program that you think may be a suitable test program? I want to eliminate problems with the setup and coding side of things.

Cheers,

Peter.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Encoder Wiring

« on: August 15, 2008, 12:28:09 AM »

Hi RC,

Yes you can use differential outputs and feed then to a single ended input as you want to do. Just use the A+ and B+. Leave the A- and B- UNCONNECTED.


Have a look at the following if it is not clear;

http://www.homanndesigns.com/EN004.pdf


Cheers,

Peter.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: more inputs possible?

« on: August 14, 2008, 12:26:32 AM »

oops my mistake.i typed it wrong.
that 15 will go in to inputs list.

what i red on internet is,all new parallel ports come with bi-directional capability.so what if we can use some outputs as inputs.

Hi,

Have a look at the ModIO I sell. It allows you to add additional I/O via Modbus.

http://homanndesigns.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=4


If you have any questions, just ask.

Cheers,

peter.