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

« on: April 04, 2011, 01:50:54 AM »

Nice, Sam!

Tell me something, how do you plan to make the coolant flow from the right side of the tray to the left side where the drain appears to be? My F1 sits the same way in the middle of the tray and I don't know where to do the drain and how to make the coolant flow there.

Dan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Coil Winding 101

« on: March 28, 2011, 04:12:08 PM »

Thanks, Hood. It's a bit cleared now. Interesting too!

Dan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Coil Winding 101

« on: March 28, 2011, 04:04:03 PM »

Hood,

Pretty much what I guessed. Just didn't know that the number of turns was known... Thought you'd start it and watch it till you think it was enough and then stop it

But I am curious now, how do you generate the G-code from the info you entered in the DROs?

Dan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Coil Winding 101

« on: March 28, 2011, 03:31:54 PM »

Yep, Hood. Simple indeed ... Spindle which acts like a linear axis... afraid you lost me there.

Is the chuck on the left being called X and the stepper on the right being called A? Aren't they supposed to be rotating continuously, while the longitudinal axis feeds back and forth? How do you achieve the continuous rotation with a linear axis in Mach3?

Dan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Coil Winding 101

« on: March 28, 2011, 12:18:11 PM »

OK. Then apparently I don't understand how it operates

Dan

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: A golden anniversary wedding gift

« on: March 28, 2011, 10:32:44 AM »

That's sweet, Mike.

Dan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Coil Winding 101

« on: March 28, 2011, 10:26:43 AM »

Hood,

How do you slave a spindle? In Mach or you just split the signal to the 2 drivers?

Dan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How do you center your rotary table?

« on: March 28, 2011, 10:00:56 AM »

Hood,

There is a wizard that does just that. You touch off 3 points on a circumference of a circle (or 4 if you like) and it automatically calculates the centre. You probably knew it, but just in case

And while on the topic I will add another method I use to centre a chuck on the mill's table. Hold a round bar in the mill, lower the head and chuck the other end of the bar in the chuck. Now it's perfectly centred, zero the DRO's and use clamp the chuck to the table. Fast and easy.

Dan

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Works in progress / Re: THE LATHE PROJECT - 2011

« on: March 25, 2011, 01:06:14 PM »

Hi Scott,

I don't see a functional difference between the two options you mentioned. Either way it addresses the two camps. Probably go with the easiest way to make. Two separate screens sounds easier to me...?

About the tool offset number, I only want the offset number to be shown, not the actual offset.

Dan

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Works in progress / Re: THE LATHE PROJECT - 2011

« on: March 21, 2011, 11:24:43 AM »

Scott,

I want the last 2 digits of the Txxyy word to be displayed as the offset number. The first 2 digits of is are already displayed as the tool number.

Dan