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Has anyone got an external reset button working that emulates the on-screen reset button?

I've got the E-STOP set up and working fine. But can't seem to find the right pin to connect my...

Would like to change the spindle eventually, but with everything new motors and motion controller I cannot really afford it at the moment. Think I've found a suitable Belleville - Lee Spring
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I've already got the VFD, it came for free from a factory clearout. You probably won't believe it, but the spindle motor is only 0.37Kw !

Hmmmm - you've got me thinking now....

As it happens I am changing my spindle bearings. My mill is now 33 years old and the spindle started to feel a it notchy a few months back. I decided to...

I am actually looking at something different to air - I am going to try an electric actuator. I got a 6000N (1350lbs) electric actuator for less than the price of an air cylinder. The actuator is...

Sorry for the delay in replying, have been away with work. Thanks for taking the time to reply. Some great info and I'd forgotten to remove the disc thickness from the travel.
The challenge I've got...

Looking for some help/advice in selecting Belleville washers for a power drawbar. I'm looking to use tormach TTS tooling and trying to achieve over 2200lbs of force. Drawabr is R8 so the ID needs to...

Some photos of the space available -

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It's very tight!

The drawing isn't quite representative as the motor is rotated to miss the drawbar bolt, so there is a bit more clearance than shown and you can drop a bar through the top cover...

Hi Everyone

I've got an early Denford Triac CNC mill and I'm lusting after a power drawbar for it - but there are some challenges! Later machines were re-designed and had a different head, spindle...

Hey everyone.

I see lots of info around on homemade drawbars and most people seem to use Belleville washers. I wondered why as Die springs seem surprisingly cheap -...

Matt - you rock :cheers:

Turning that on has reduced my program from 45K to 10K!!!!

Thanks so much for your help - I owe you a beer!

Cheers

Dave

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I was wondering if anyone could help suggest some parameters for a machining job I'm helping a friend with. We are 3D profiling a complicated gear on a VMC. We have some 16mm carbide ballnose...

Ah ha - cheers Matt - that's helped reduce the file size- is there a reason why it doesn't prodcue G02/G03s in the YZ plane?

Forum won't let me upload mcx files so for those having trouble with the file above, here is a zipped copy.

Also, a question. When undertaking the profiling of the cavity, the shape is produced in...

Because MCX is not a valid file type for this forum - i.e. this means you cannot upload a file with an MCX extension!

If you rename the file from
PINIONSCUTMM.txt
to
PINIONSCUTMM.mcx
it will...

Ah ha - cheers for that. Do you have any experience with downloading programs - for example does a 40KB text file take up 40KB of Fanuc memory?

Dave

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I am currently setting up a job for a guy at work. There is 3d contouring involved so the programs are quite large. According to the available memory it has 46823 left. What is this value -...

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I was wondering if someone could help me. I am working on machining the cavity in the attached file(I've changed the extension to txt instead of MCX to allow me to upload it). The problem is,...

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Thanks for having a look.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have made any difference.

Cheers

Dave

Hello

I'm guessing I need to edit these lines -

prapid$ # Linear line movement - at rapid feedrate
pcan
pcan1, n$, sgcode, pccdia, x$, y$, z$, strcantext,...

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Spent a few hours working on this. Found a more appropiate simple post to edit. See attached file

Now the type of output this is giving me is :-
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N100G00G90
N110G20
N120T214...

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I'm working with the attached post and I need to make a mod for a new machine we got. I've editied posts before but now sure how to go about this one.

I need to replace every Z move...

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I've just had some new tipped tools (Ceratizit) for a turning job. However they don't appear in the library files within Mcam X.

Can anyone tell me how to setup the tools to create my...

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I'm helping a friend to make a set of bevel gears. Basically, there is an EN24T machined blank which is set onto an indexing plate.

Now what i'm curious about is feeds, speeds, depth of...

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I've now got my converted Denford Starturn lathe whizzing away under Mach3 control and it is brilliant! I've just got a new quikc change toolpost for it and I'm now looking to sort out some...

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I was wondering if there was any way to calculate the current settings for a motor? The motors I am interested in are 8 wire steppers but they have been painted over so any info cannot be...

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I've finally got round to starting to use X. I must say it seems great so far - allthough it can be hard to get out V9 mode!

Now to my query. I never used MC lathe 'properly' before -...

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I've found that Parasolid Binary files are much better for getting SW files into MC. Depending on the ver of MC you may need to set the options up in SW to save as a parasolid binary V13 file,...

I've just been playing with homing in V4.01 and I've been succesful in changing the homing speed so it does work.

Cheers

Dave