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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Doing some wood work for the Boss Lady

« on: October 05, 2010, 12:39:51 PM »

I new ride would be nice....  I thinking Street Glide this time

JH

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: 1987 Bridgeport Production Center Interact 412 to Mach3 Conversion

« on: October 05, 2010, 12:38:04 PM »

Yep, these are Arcade Video Game Buttons.  Nice too, LED back light with SPDT micro switch.  Got em off of ebay from user hklwh123 but there are many others that sell the same ones, some rectangle and some round. 

I bought just a couple to to make sure the quality was good and to measure them, then went back and bought the rest with a couple of spares.

JH

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: 1987 Bridgeport Production Center Interact 412 to Mach3 Conversion

« on: October 04, 2010, 01:11:21 PM »

Got some time on the Control Panel between coats of paint.  Added a keyboard with build in mouse / track ball.  Made the buttons labels on the vinyl plotter.  Only a couple of buttons are functional now.  Need to hook up the PoKeys next for the rest...

JH

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Doing some wood work for the Boss Lady

« on: October 04, 2010, 12:15:55 PM »

This is the only before picture I have.  It used to be just painted ply wood.   

(that is my buddy Perry on his new ride)

She is happy, so I am happy.

JH

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Doing some wood work for the Boss Lady

« on: October 04, 2010, 10:32:46 AM »

Made these cool window things for the house...

JH

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: 1987 Bridgeport Production Center Interact 412 to Mach3 Conversion

« on: October 01, 2010, 05:01:10 PM »

With the machine basically functional, I thought I would snap a couple of pics of the electronics used before the all the sheet metal is back on.

JH

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: 1987 Bridgeport Production Center Interact 412 to Mach3 Conversion

« on: October 01, 2010, 04:57:57 PM »

Hey man,
    Cannot believe how nice this thing is coming out.  Very cool build and I am again insanely jealous that you are gonna have a nice VMC under Mach control.  Really like the color, kinda reminds me of my Lathemaster grey/tan/white I painted my machine.  Just a clean looking color and seems to last well altho some lubes I found can stain it.    This is really gonna be a useful machine when it is finished and that toolchanger is looking really nice too.  It looks like you have invested some pretty good cash in it with the AC servos and whatnot but when you get it all together and make your first cool machined chopper part you GOTTA post a cool completed video of the machine running. Peace

Pete

Pete,

Thanks !  I am very happy on how things are turning out.  Old iron is great, boxed ways, ATC, ...  new electronics and Mach3 !

I am looking forward to getting the paint done and the sheet metal put back on.  After that is the coolant system.

Thanks,
JH

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: 1987 Bridgeport Production Center Interact 412 to Mach3 Conversion

« on: September 30, 2010, 05:49:09 PM »

Started on the paint…  Each part has to be degreased and sanded before the new oil based paint is applied.  Also making some custom covers to go over several modifications that have been done to the machine over the years.  

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Required spindle power

« on: September 30, 2010, 11:09:08 AM »

Try the G-Wizard CNC Calculator

http://www.cnccookbook.com/CCGWizard.html

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General Mach Discussion / Re: call macro from another macro

« on: September 28, 2010, 09:02:49 AM »

You can call macros from with in other macros:  Even in different files.

Your statement would need a code "M06" however.

This is how you can pass parameters to different files.  NOTE:  the macro in different file will run at the same time, Mach3 just spawns a new thread (at least this is true from my testing)

    Passing Parameters 101
        FILE 1
            Code "M1101 P99 Q23 R5001"
       
        FILE 2
            parameter1 = Param1()
            parameter2 = Param2()
            parameter3 = Param3()
   
            Message "M1101: " & parameter1 & " " & parameter2 & " " & parameter3


Thanks,
JH