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General Mach Discussion / Re: Alright fellow campers...a frankenstein moment!!

« on: November 17, 2017, 11:04:57 PM »

O Roger, well leave it at that.  bob

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Alright fellow campers...a frankenstein moment!!

« on: November 17, 2017, 06:31:56 PM »

Sounds like your father may have been very unforgiving Roger.  bob

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Alright fellow campers...a frankenstein moment!!

« on: November 17, 2017, 11:02:35 AM »

Roger thank you...bob

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Alright fellow campers...a frankenstein moment!!

« on: November 17, 2017, 11:02:01 AM »

Ok lets try this

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Alright fellow campers...a frankenstein moment!!

« on: November 17, 2017, 03:08:40 AM »

The X axis growling sound occurred only when I turned on the spindle.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Alright fellow campers...a frankenstein moment!!

« on: November 17, 2017, 03:07:37 AM »

Gary, Gery, Craig, joeaverage, Chaoticone, and those others helping me, including the moderator and administrator.:   I did another experiment.  I swapped the supposedly malfunctioning drive from running the A-axis to running the X-axis.  I took the X-axis driver and put it on the A-axis.  So X and A have been swapped.   The stepper motor to the X-axis did the same crazy movement, growling sound as the A axis used to do.   The A-axis behaved beautifully, no problem at all.  I also went on the web and found youtube videos of higher end drivers malfunctioning... one guy bought 4 and 3 were bad.  So I am beginning to think I have a bad driver. Each time I do something, I go ahead and switch any non-shielded cable to a shielded cable.  bob

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Alright fellow campers...a frankenstein moment!!

« on: November 16, 2017, 11:37:59 PM »

Craig I have tried 3 times to post photos to the forum but it rejects it each time.  If you will send me an email to me at anchorite@socal.rr.com  then I will send you the 2 photos I would like to talk about.  I need a picture drawn showing me how to do this ceramic thing.  can you send me a photo please?

bob

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Alright fellow campers...a frankenstein moment!!

« on: November 16, 2017, 10:23:24 PM »

Ok Craig... thank you... will pick these up tomorrow if they have them.   bob

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Alright fellow campers...a frankenstein moment!!

« on: November 16, 2017, 08:02:13 PM »

sorry it would not import the other photo...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Alright fellow campers...a frankenstein moment!!

« on: November 16, 2017, 07:58:19 PM »

Craig Hi,  thanks for the heads up... attached are a couple photos of the driver and one with the lid off... bob