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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 and Tapmatic Tapping Head

« on: October 29, 2012, 11:31:15 AM »

ok i have finally received my spiral taps.

so i can now test the tapping head.

let get down to coding, what do i need to use here?

tap is an m3 tap, the hole is a through hole and say 10mm thick work/or 10mm deep hole

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 and Tapmatic Tapping Head

« on: October 25, 2012, 05:57:42 PM »

lets see what info i get

http://www.denfordata.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=3907

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 and Tapmatic Tapping Head

« on: October 25, 2012, 08:56:27 AM »

http://www.denfordata.com/pdfs/triac_series_600dpi_hq.pdf

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 and Tapmatic Tapping Head

« on: October 25, 2012, 05:43:36 AM »

ive been told my machine has spindle feedback but its connect to the spindle drive.

so i need to look into this further

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 and Tapmatic Tapping Head

« on: October 25, 2012, 04:32:00 AM »

so is my understanding of how they work wrong?

i thought you fed the tap towards the hole at a slow speed, when the tap reached the hole you fed down a little bit till the tap bit.

with the spindle travelling at a slow speed when the tap bit, it would just tapping to the bottom of the hole when reaching the bottom reverse would engage and the tapping head would retract and come out. then you just need to pull the tap out.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 and Tapmatic Tapping Head

« on: October 25, 2012, 04:07:14 AM »

thanks for all the info guys, looks pretty complex.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 and Tapmatic Tapping Head

« on: October 24, 2012, 06:37:10 PM »

ok ive just been told no spindle feedback, is this going to cause issues with using the tapping head?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 and Tapmatic Tapping Head

« on: October 24, 2012, 06:05:13 PM »

many thanks for the detailed information.

not sure on the rpm thing, how would i find this out?

i have to set to spindle speed before i can do anything so command s3000, does that mean anything?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 and Tapmatic Tapping Head

« on: October 24, 2012, 05:46:40 PM »

ok thanks, to be a pain could you explain a bit further?

ive only owned my mill with mach3 for two months so im very very new to all this

i want to tap m2, m3 and m9 holes

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General Mach Discussion / Mach3 and Tapmatic Tapping Head

« on: October 24, 2012, 05:33:53 PM »

hi all,

ive got a denford traic vmc milling machine which runs on mach3.

ive just received this bad boy -

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/230832885828?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649



can anyone give me any info on how to set it up in mach3?

im assuming i need some fancy code to tell the machine when to pull up etc?