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North of Austin. Far enough to be rural.

Love it here, cows and all.

Andrew

Thanks metalmayhem.

We feel very blessed. My family all made it out alive, and we had excellent insurance, they took good care of us, just took time to rebuild our life. I do miss the machines I...

BUILD UPDATE:

In 2018 a forest fire burned the town I lived in. All machines lost in fire, along with the entire town. :(

Thanks Murray!

HI Murray,

Nice job with the Fadal!

Thanks for making your C files available. I have used some great examples from your code.

I have a question about your tool change program.

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Glad to help!

I couldn't figure out many other possibilities, as long shot ish as it was, it was a simple place to start.

Angle of probe tip might be the problem, not the indicator or tip...

I thought it was a long shot. Would have been nice if the problem was an easy fix like that.

Seems they never are though.

Nice job, will be a great machine when your done.

Sent from my...

Troy,

This will sound dumb, but does your test indicator have the correct length probe on it?

If it's not right the indicator will not read accurately.

It will always repeat to .000...

Move head down, clear of tool changer.

Andrew

Works great on my lathe, and you can engage the threading with spindle off, rotate spindle by hand and the z axis will slave along so that you can line up with an already cut thread that needs to be...

Sweet!

Andrew

Vg

Andrew

Hi Jose,

I built the lathe in this build log:

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/vertical-mill-lathe-project-log/322760-slant-bed-lathe-tool-changer-pneumatic-5c.html


My lathe would not do...

If the noise cannot be seen in the resulting surface finish, then it could be spindle drive settings. Plenty of splindle drives operate at high frequency and make a terrible obnoxious noise, but this...

It's not electronic imbalance causing this. 20 volts is not going to cause a disturbace in the cut. Can the noise be seen in the surface finish of the cut? If it can, then the splindle bearing...

Thanks zmajmr!

Andrew

I have been having more fun. Decided to try some aluminum parts. Machine has been performing better than I expected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX5ZI7kBK_o

Nice work troy!

Looks like a good start. Going to be killer with dynomotion running things.

Andrew

Andrew

I think a photo of the setup and saw could help determine potential problems.

Andrew

Is there any posibility the blade is coming to a stop, the arbor spinning in the blade?

Andrew

Sounds like a good plan Milton.

Glad you like them. I was shocked by the price too. I don't know how concentric they are when used as a milling spindle chuck, but for a lathe application, where...

I must agree!

The dynomotion stuff is great, and the service cant be beat.

I have 2 kflop/kanalog setups.

One setup is in a 3 axis milling machine with advanced motion servo amps....

Hi Milton,


Yes, mine have the 22mm nut and 19x1 thread. I was surprised by the small nut too.

Do you think they will work in your machine?

Thanks for the good words Mark!

Looks beefy! Perfect size machine. Nice work.

Andrew

Nice work Roadside! cant wait to see it come together!

Thanks Milton!

Its been a fun build, and its nice not making these parts on my manual lathe anymore. I ran into some problems along the way, but now that it is running, its working really well.

You won't have any trouble modifying the flat, they are hardened but not super hard. I would say 48 to 50 rc no higher. Carbide cuts it just fine.

Hope they work for you.

Andrew

Merry Christmas to you Milton!

This info is from memory, the collet chucks are pressed into the turret and I have no way of measuring the depth of the press fit. I drilled a hole larger than the...

Ok, this is it! machine is done!

Check out the bar puller!



https://youtu.be/Gz3LFrtLHvo


I dig the cur-chunk of the tool changer!