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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Dixie Duke - A machine in the making.

« on: January 08, 2010, 12:49:40 PM »

Thanks RC. Definitely had to be mobile. Pretty much every machine and work table I have is on casters, and I don't see how I would get by without them, now. There a really good feature to have in a crowded shop.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Dixie Duke - A machine in the making.

« on: January 08, 2010, 01:08:43 AM »

Got the table 98% completed. All that's left is drilling/tapping some mounting holes in the top surface for vices and fixtures and such, and the end surfaces for the motor and screw mounts. I did manage to slap it all together and give it a test slide. Everything is really nice and smooth, and feels very solid. I'm a happy camper so far. Next up will be the column, or the cabinet its all going to sit on. I haven't finished with the design of the cabinet, so most likely will start on the column. HERE is a crude video of it sliding.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tormach,Mach3,& MasterCam 8.1.1

« on: January 07, 2010, 06:23:20 PM »

You could probably use the 'generic fanuc' post and be fine. Tormach would probably give you a post or be more helpful in selecting one.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help! We are being spammed!

« on: January 07, 2010, 01:08:20 AM »

That's the good thing about this place....always somebody around to the trash out.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Set jog speed

« on: January 05, 2010, 12:22:00 PM »

If your using the default screen set, the left and right brackets "[  ]" are the keyboard shortcuts if you don't want to go into the tab screen every time you need to change the jog override. If you were at 50%, the keys might have been inadvertently pressed at some point.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Dixie Duke - A machine in the making.

« on: January 04, 2010, 08:18:19 PM »

Thanks for the compliments guys.
Yeah, I had allot more time than I had anticipated in that swiss cheese block. Manually peck drilling 2.5" (63.5mm) deep with a small bit and counter-boring 64 holes was quiet a chore. 'Fun' went out the window on that one. Roughly 16 hours in total on that part.
I got started on the table today. It's only surface ground so far, with one pocket cut in the bottom. Hopefully I will finish that part up tomorrow. It's got two 28" (711mm) long slots for the linear rail that I will have to take my time on to get right, and lots of mounting holes, so I will be lucky if I do get it done I suppose. Here's a pic of progress so far.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Dixie Duke - A machine in the making.

« on: January 04, 2010, 02:02:45 AM »

Just another update. Slow progress. More boring reading and additional pics on my site. I think I'm gonna go with a drilled and tapped table instead of a T-slot. At least I can see it taking shape now. Kind of like a fetus in the womb.      

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Keyboard input for axis stopped

« on: January 04, 2010, 01:47:04 AM »

Might be that you have turned off jog mode by accident. Try Ctrl+Alt+J, or click the button for it on the main page, in the tool information block.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Engine Mounts

« on: January 04, 2010, 01:43:30 AM »

That looks pretty slick. Whatcha' makin, a frozen drink blender?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 Running on new windows 7

« on: January 04, 2010, 01:33:01 AM »

You might could boot into "Test Mode" and get it to work.  No need for signed drivers in test mode.