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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Conect 121 lathe retro

« on: August 19, 2011, 09:00:57 PM »

What a fun looking project, Hood, look forward to seeing it move along- 

Dave

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: August 18, 2011, 11:57:57 AM »

 
 ..... hip boots recommended, chest waders preferred.
 

 

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: My Emco 120 rebuild...

« on: August 16, 2011, 10:54:43 AM »

What a great looking project you've got there, Pete.

Looks like you're in the same boat as me (my cnc lathe isn't near as nice as yours). I did the same thing, build the CNC lathe first, then learn to use it 

Thanks for sharing-
Dave

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn

« on: August 14, 2011, 01:12:15 PM »

Hi Guy's

I have being out A period and now I see the last post is from march, is Lazyturn come to an end or?
What is the latest version?

Greeting:
Willem

The last version was « Reply #1349 on: March 07, 2010, 10:57:17 AM » but I didn't use it as it gave some errors in the GCode numbers for me.

I use:« Reply #1337 on: March 05, 2010, 08:29:40 AM »

Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Turning ON Tool Change and Safe Z Positions

« on: August 14, 2011, 08:38:01 AM »

Thanks all for the inputs.
I tried my hand for the first time at tinkering around with a screen set.
I added a hot key to one of screen one buttons that did not have a hot key and somehow lost my positive X drive.
Wound up having to reinstall the entire program. One sure needs to be careful.....
Everything is back to normal now and I think I'll do a lot more reading up on what the heck I'm doing.

Mark

Mark,

Just a tip for working with screensets, think of it like modifying any windows file. Always make a quick backup of the screenset you want to alter so that you don't have to jump through hoops to get back into production. Ask me how I know 

Dave

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: August 14, 2011, 08:32:29 AM »

Have you tried it yet ??

Tweakie.

No sir, I meant the work that I've seen you folks doing with the impact engraver is stunning -
Dave

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: August 14, 2011, 08:26:46 AM »

This Impact engraving is not something that will necessarily work 'straight out of the box' because my first attempts were just terrible but with the right setup the results are, I think, quite stunning.

Tweakie.

Thank you, and I wholeheartedly agree 
Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: MACH3 & Wine Ubuntu

« on: August 14, 2011, 08:23:23 AM »

michel, you may want to do a google search for that as I don't see a lot of users going with Mach 3 under wine.

http://www.google.com/search?q=running+mach+3+under+wine%3F&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1

If you're using Linux, EMC2 is probably the way to go for you-
Dave

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: August 14, 2011, 08:02:53 AM »

Ah, ok, thanks for that tweaks.

Any idea of the range of how deep/shallow the magent is actually pushing?

What type of tip is it? Is it blunt or?

Thanks again-
Dave

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: XBox360 Controller Plugin Version 2.3.8 Now Available

« on: August 14, 2011, 07:59:21 AM »

Very nice, Lee, I'm sure a lot of folks will appreciate this one, even if the don't say so   

I haven't used the XBox controller yet, but your support is refreshing to see, and your time is priceless-

Dave