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Thanks Hood, forbes is looking around to see if he has a drawing still for this encoder, as I received two slightly different types from him. If not I'll have to see if anyone local has a scope I can borrow. My DVM shows freqency output, so I may be able to see something??

I tried to fit the servo motors last night, but first found that the PCD on the mounting flange was different, so I had to strip the end plate from my old motors onto the new motors. This went smoothly enough. I then tried to fit my pulley to the motors and found that the dia of the spindle on the new motor was slightly larger. I don't have a boring bar small enough to enlarge this on the lathe, so I've ordered a reamer to get the job done.

Had a few hours of pulling my hair out last night, didn't think this would be a smooth conversion. I'm sure all the effort will be worth it in the end.

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Can anyone help with the pin outs on my muirhead vactric optical encoders??

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Tangent Corner / Cheap but sturdy 4th axis
« on: November 14, 2013, 08:22:12 AM »
I've been looking for a 4th axis for my Bridgeport interact for a while.  There are the  cheap Chinese ones on ebay, but nothing very substantial. Does anyone know where I can find a sturdy 4th axis, I have my own servo’s I can use with it.

Failing this, has anyone got any drawings of a 4th axis so I can try and make one.

Thanks
Jim

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yes indeed, I check the invoice, I did order a dc supply, but the lack of + or - on the terminals gave it away.

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I made some progress last night. I removed the old kit from 1984


And went all 21st century with a touch screen


The pc I'm using only has a single DIMM slot, but I managed to find a single 1gb DIMM which worked :)

I installed mach3


I was just about to power up my lP-A controller, but noticed the power supply I purchased was AC and not DC :( I'll have to wait a few more days before configuring mach3.

I've still got to refit my servos and for the VFD, so plenty to get on with.

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CS-Lab / First impressions of CSMIO/IP-A (analogue output version)
« on: November 12, 2013, 02:07:13 PM »
Thanks hood, more toys for my Christmas list

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forbes is a good guy, he's posting me out the missing parts :D

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one servo motor (the green one) still has the tacho in it, the other two didn't. one also had the magnets removed too.

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CS-Lab / Re: Rigid tapping with IP-A
« on: November 12, 2013, 11:11:38 AM »
thaanks hood, I'll check with cs-lab before splashing the cash

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no he didn't I'm going to ask him to post them down to me, but I can't get access to my email at the moment

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