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General Mach Discussion / Re: Shuttle Pro V2 Keystroke mapping

« on: April 13, 2010, 02:00:30 PM »

Hi Frank,

The best way I have found is to look what others are doing and then adjust for what YOU want to do. I don't do a lot of manual milling, but when I do, the outer wheel is excellent as it lets you speed up or slow down in increments.  It has to be held in place, so maybe that's not what you're after but it works perfectly for me.

I would try the different functions in the drop down menus to see exactly what you get, such as the jog % etc.

Let us know how you make out.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: New Project for the shop.

« on: April 13, 2010, 01:51:57 PM »

Thanks Bob, as I mentioned before, your site is a treasure trove of information and I stop by every once in awhile to see what you're up to -

Thanks,
Dave

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Tangent Corner / Re: LED Electronics guys out there?

« on: April 13, 2010, 01:50:34 PM »

Thank you Tweakie, definitely some good info there.

I've been looking around some more with others help and I can see I can build "arrays' or banks of LEDs and get by with less resistors as well.

I'm going to buy a breadboard/protoboard and start fooling around....uh oh......   

Thanks again,
Dave

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*****VIDEOS***** / Re: Impact Engraving.

« on: April 13, 2010, 12:04:12 PM »

Agreed, it would be great for hardened materials, thanks for the info - great job.

Dave

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Tangent Corner / LED Electronics guys out there?

« on: April 13, 2010, 10:41:23 AM »

Hi fellas, I've been putting together a new spindle light for my Taig Mill and I'd like it to be much brighter than before. In the enclosure, I have enough room to house 23 (yes, 23 lol!) LED's but I'm not positive about the best way to go about wiring them.

Some info:

23 white LED's
- forw. voltage 3.4
- forw. current 25 mA

Source will be a 9.5 volt Apple printer Power supply with 1.5 amps available

I've used the online calculators and I come up with 23pcs. 270 ohm 1/2 w resistors, but that's an aweful lot more parts to stuff in there. I bought one of those $5 puck lights that has 24 LEDs in it and they don't have hardly anything like that inside. They use those tiny little surface mount resistors, but there's like only 2 of them in there? Is there a cleaner way to do this with a lot less parts? I honestly don't mind soldering all that, but it just seems to be too much for what I'm trying to do.

Obviously I'm not an electronics guy, I just know enough to be dangerous - 

Thanks for the help and your time-
Dave

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*****VIDEOS***** / Re: Impact Engraving.

« on: April 12, 2010, 01:36:03 PM »

Very cool tweakie, so how did you go about setting it up on the material?

What sort of "movement" are we talking about, does the point go in and out on the impact engraver does it oscillate?

I have a vibration pencil for engraving, is this the same idea?

Thanks for sharing- 
Dave

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

« on: April 11, 2010, 10:42:58 AM »

The trem bar jumped out of the tremolo socket as it didn't want to be noticed (it hates getting its picture taken  ) , but he didn't make it far enough    (it's laying there on the bench)

Looks great, my friend, we need better pics (front and back) of that masterpiece though!!

Dave

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: New Project for the shop.

« on: April 10, 2010, 06:37:53 PM »

Thank so much, Russ 

Dave

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: New Project for the shop.

« on: April 08, 2010, 10:05:39 AM »

Thanks fellas, appreciate the comments.

Tweakie: Yes, I did modify the chain but I just reversed it, no machining needed. I'll be adding brackets to the part that goes vertically to make it nice and steady so it doesn't "bounce" around. I have that part going into a little project box which I cnc'd the ears that come out the bottom and retain the cable carrier. Same as the piece that goes along the X axis as well. Milled up a delrin block with the same ears that snap into that as well.

Sam: yes, I went with some nice "FLAT" pieces for this one as the flatter now, less headaches later when tramming everything in.    Even though some of the pieces look rough, thay're very flat and not crowned or cupped and should look nice when I do a final takedown and clean all the surfaces up.

Dave

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: New Project for the shop.

« on: April 07, 2010, 02:17:26 PM »

Hi All,

Just wanted to update on this project as I haven't really been posting anything new for quite awhile. Went through some family issues and "life" in general so I obviously haven't been around like I had been.

Aaaaanyway..... got some pics together for you and thought I'd show the progress I've been making with my test fitting of the assembly so far. As you can see, it's almost there, but I need to work out the mounting of my cable carriers and other assorted little odds and ends I'll be adding. Things like some sort of dust "foot" for a dust collection system, a lazer locator, and a spindle light, just to name a few. The router base is for the Bosch Colt that I'll be using.

If you look at the little shelf under the router, you'll see the Rack mount control box I have gutted and I'm getting ready to set up the electronics which include the Gecko G540 Drive. I'm also trying to figure out a slick way to mount my sherline rotary table and tailstock to do rotary work, but haven't come up with anything concrete yet as you can see in my assembly model, lol! I'm thinking of some kind of T Track set up that will allow the tail stock to slide along...blah blah blah....

That's it for now, enjoy the pics.   Oh, and Sam, please have a look around  , my shop is your shop, lol!

Dave