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General Mach Discussion / Re: Physical buttons for plasma

« on: May 16, 2016, 09:59:10 AM »

Ok, thanks, so it cant use combined home/limit like basic Mach does?

Will have to find some very heavy duty switches for this one i think.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Physical buttons for plasma

« on: May 16, 2016, 07:54:12 AM »

Nice, that sounds damn good.
Its coming together slowly now.

Does it only need the one switch or 1 homing & 2 limits per axis

Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bridgeport Knee Mill Conversion?

« on: May 16, 2016, 07:51:52 AM »

Ok, keyboards, once you figure out what to search for, they are there, some are silly pricy though.

Found one made an offer and was accepted so we now have a nice stainless keyboard, a separate stainless track-ball unit and the MPG pendant

Ballscrews on the other hand are like chickens' teeth or rocking horse poo, will be an import job for sure, just trying to find a decent vendor.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Physical buttons for plasma

« on: May 16, 2016, 07:31:33 AM »

Nice,
how does index homing function?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bridgeport Knee Mill Conversion?

« on: May 16, 2016, 06:48:31 AM »

Yes as i thought - they are a pain unless built in to the app in mind.

I will keep an open view on this part then.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bridgeport Knee Mill Conversion?

« on: May 16, 2016, 06:38:57 AM »

Hmm, always a catch, I completely forgot about manual stuff

Will keep searching for a keyboard but is there a smarter way to do this - you mention on-screen keyboard, can that be used with Mach3??

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bridgeport Knee Mill Conversion?

« on: May 16, 2016, 06:03:26 AM »

I think i am right in that when going CNC in metric units, it does not matter if the screws are metric or inch pitch as we are just telling it to move X amount of steps etc?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bridgeport Knee Mill Conversion?

« on: May 16, 2016, 05:26:10 AM »

Makes sense, have the manuals now.

That little pendant should fit in perfectly, I'm still leaning away from having a keyboard on the panel, heading towards a small numeric board, MPG, trackball instead.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bridgeport Knee Mill Conversion?

« on: May 16, 2016, 04:47:39 AM »

Handheld does have an attraction here - its a small machine but has a 48" table so the left end could be way out of arms reach when doing edge-finding etc.

Have you a link or any sketches to the wiring etc, I gather the button is needed because we need a pulse rather than the permanent switch output ??

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bridgeport Knee Mill Conversion?

« on: May 16, 2016, 03:59:36 AM »

Thinks something like this might be workable with the MPG module

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Universal-CNC-4-Axis-MPG-manual-pulse-generator-Pendant-encoder-fr-Siemens-FAGOR-/251989254779?hash=item3aabbae27b:m:mZvJBBmriCpUkzlG77qf65Q