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1941

General Mach Discussion / Re: dxf files for Turn

« on: September 18, 2008, 08:19:36 PM »

Thanks, Rich, even though I'm not saying much, I'll be watching and hopefully learning- 

1942

General Mach Discussion / Re: DriverTest not working

« on: September 17, 2008, 04:42:49 PM »

This has to be one of the weirdest things I've seen.

I'm just sorry I don't have any clue how to help - 

Dave

1943

Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Yet another Retrofit. Hardinge HXL-S

« on: September 17, 2008, 04:40:48 PM »

Ah, I see! lol! Thanks for the lesson 

1944

Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Yet another Retrofit. Hardinge HXL-S

« on: September 17, 2008, 03:08:47 PM »

Hi Wayne,

May I ask what pukka is?

EDIT: (forgot to say) very nice work!

Thanks,
Dave

1945

General Mach Discussion / Re: DriverTest not working

« on: September 17, 2008, 03:02:59 PM »

Can't you just uninstall and delete (except what you want to save of course) the Mach folder on the C: drive? Then reinstall..

You are loading it onto the C: drive, correct?

Dave

1946

General Mach Discussion / Re: Home and/or limit switch

« on: September 17, 2008, 12:32:33 PM »

Dave, never tried that but that was a roundabout way of doing things
If you didnt have Home switches configured pressing the Ref All button would have set your machine coords to zero   (of course AutoZero would have had to be configured previously in Homing and limits)

Hood

You have to remember that, believe it or not, I knew less back then than I do now. 

I watched the videos for Mach 3 and saw that reference to hit the ref all button but my Z axis would start to move and there were no switches at the time so I just never did that again because I didn't understand the software at the time. So I kept fooling around in the diagnostics page and figured that "zeroing Mach coords" out. As long as I "homed" my machine before turning it off, it would be the same the next time I fired her up.

Unfortunately if I hit an E stop for any reason, it had to be reset.

Good times........ 

Dave

1947

General Mach Discussion / Re: Home and/or limit switch

« on: September 17, 2008, 04:55:10 AM »

You cannot zero machine co-ordinates any other way except by homing (now you have the switches set up and working).

Actually you can, I use to zero the machine coordinates when I didn't have home switches by going to the diagnostics tab and entering "0" and then hit the send to DRO button and it will zero out where your table may be -

Conventional or not, it worked for my application at the time 

Dave

1948

General Mach Discussion / Re: Bridgeport Quill Feed Mechanism

« on: September 16, 2008, 09:02:40 PM »

Ah, I see it now, thank you. 

1949

General Mach Discussion / Re: Bridgeport Quill Feed Mechanism

« on: September 16, 2008, 08:53:11 PM »

Hood, that assemly is only held on by 2 screws mounted into the 2 little stepped "bosses" at the top and bottom of the depth stop? And this drives the quill (Z axis) with no strength issues? I would have never guessed that would have been enough.

I have a Bridgeport at the shop and I'd love to retrofit it someday but I'd have to do a LOT research before even thinking of CNC'ing (destroying) that machine.

Dave

1950

General Mach Discussion / Re: Bridgeport Quill Feed Mechanism

« on: September 16, 2008, 01:37:56 PM »

Looks excellent!

Curious what the second pulley is for?

The addition of a Coffee grinder? 


Dave