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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: 9x20 Chinese Lathe Conversion

« on: April 08, 2012, 01:44:41 PM »

Thanks Hood!

Sorry for the slow update. Have been too busy lately.

This is the ball screw I am going to use for the Z axis:


It will be mounted on the front, where the original lead screw used to be. I made a mounting block for the ball nut out of aluminium:


The mounting block will be bolted to the bottom of the saddle. And here is the mounting block I made for the bearings housing:


The bearings housing will go into the round bore and the stepper motor will be mounted on the opposite side. I will be using timing belt drive between them. The elongated bore for the motor will allow for belt tensionning.

Dan

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Just got a lathe to retrofit

« on: March 20, 2012, 04:16:26 AM »

Thanks for the details, Hood. So the screw actually tightens the ball against the taper and so an O-ring is not needed. Slick.

0.25mm/rev doesn't sound that slow

I'll have to consider that... must be lathes serve as very good work benches

Dan

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Adding a 4th axis to my mill

« on: March 20, 2012, 03:10:11 AM »

Here, for your reference:

http://www.ntnamerica.com/pdf/2200/brgfits.pdf

http://www.promshop.info/cataloguespdf/a049-057.pdf

Dan

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Just got a lathe to retrofit

« on: March 20, 2012, 03:04:06 AM »

Nice work, Hood. The adjustable nozzles are COOL! Is it just flat bottom bore with an O-ring? And I assume the bolt head holds it from falling out.

Hard to judge sizes and hence speeds on the video - looks like it's too slow on the Delrin? I machine Delrin with chip-break inserts at 0.15-0.2mm/rev.

Oh.. is it your cross slide or your work bench

Dan

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: When, Oh When, are we going to get backlash compensation?

« on: March 19, 2012, 07:31:01 AM »

Dave,

This is the plugin I am using.

Dan

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: When, Oh When, are we going to get backlash compensation?

« on: March 19, 2012, 06:39:00 AM »

Dave,

I'm using Mach3 Dev version 057 and SS ver 17cd and it works fine here.

Dan

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: When, Oh When, are we going to get backlash compensation?

« on: March 19, 2012, 05:57:20 AM »

Hi Dave,

It was a fix in the SS plugin. Or to put it better - an addition of backlash compensation code to the SS plugin.

Dan

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Adding a 4th axis to my mill

« on: March 19, 2012, 04:47:48 AM »

Check bearing fitting tables. The bearing fit in the housing doesn't have to be as tight as on the shaft. It's not an interference fit for that matter in most cases.

Dan

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: When, Oh When, are we going to get backlash compensation?

« on: March 19, 2012, 04:42:05 AM »

Hi,

Backlash is fixed in SS for quite some time now. Works well here. Except when you program a move which is smaller than the set backlash, in which case it jumps to wrong position - a bit offset from the correct one.

Dan

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Adding a 4th axis to my mill

« on: March 17, 2012, 03:15:35 AM »

Nice work, Mike.

50% axial load for a deep groove ball bearing... sounds too much to me too. Hope he knew what he was saying

Dan