Thanks, very helpfull video !
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Thanks, very helpfull video !
My motive for a 5C spindle is for using the machine as a vertical lathe. I have an ongoing job of creating quantitys of a gearblanks ...its just under .750 diam, I am doing it on a manual turret...
I am getting back to my Tormach 1100 and am still interested in the idea of a 5C spindle for the main spindle. I cant seem to find anything on this, wonder if anyone ever went ahead with this...
Have been doing runs of several hundred phenolic gear blanks, and stacking them 5 high to drill, ressulting in stack heighth of about 1.250
The top one or two have a hole dia at least 2 or3 ...
WOW awesome....are you able to make any extras to sell at this point ?
Thank you
Dave Lawrence
I have been considering a second oiler too. How about mounting the second one high up so it actually rides on the head , even slightly higher above the distribution points ?
I like the idea of the rotary valve ,like you showed in the video. The great thing there is the idea of getting a timed feedback on EVERY oiling point, to detect if one is clogged ( slow piston...
I like the concept this guy is using. Sometimes just to change back and forth between two tools would save loads of time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIR3XWdIA7s
Fenichel , you are really taking things where they need to go. Currently available conversational is like buying a diamond, and getting mixed in with your diamond a whole big truckload of dirt,...
Another area to move into with this work is the development of Tormach vertical lathe .....Every tormach owner that doesnt have a Rapidturn or freestanding CNC lathe could make use of it.
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You have expressed about what I have been thnking.....Geez who would want 20,000 lines of hard or impossible to modify code when it can be done in 20
I would pay money for a better...
I am so glad to see your post ! I went from Mach3 tormach upgraded to the $800 pathpilot loaded computer which kept crashing and not booting up, Tormach gave me several "fixes"
which each...
This has probably already been covered , but I couldnt find anything on it yet.
A guy wants end of rifle barrel threaded, and insists on not removing barrel from the stock which makes it harder to...
Thanks SignTorch , on first try File >New then when a clean slate opened File>Import opened a submenu with the >import bitmap option greyed out......but after closing the Vectric pgm and...
IN vcarve desktop. 8.0 I am trying to
use the trace bitmap tool to create vector outline but in local files where the xxxxx.bmp should show up in the windows file structure vectric sees...
I have been using the larger body TTS 3d "taster" about 6 months , love it.
It has NOT been dropped or crashed, but now the needle stops consistantly half a thou short of the zero point.
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Hello All,
. When I am running Vcarve 7.5 the pdf help file (239 pages ) can be accessed easily.
However now I have a chromebook ( this is a NON windows os) I would like to get the help...
Hummmmm ....thinking ...... ? ? ........ short the three stator wires to what ? Each other ? the case ? Then where would the scope leads go ? My guess would be short all three stator...
kstrauss thanks for the picture and MF thanks for the pointer.... turned out by plugging in like yours worked for mine
Thanks
Dave
GL thanks...... you put well into words........... what I was sort of thinking
Thanks,
Dave
I attended the NYCCNC open house yesterday, It was well organized, well put together, high energy, fun and informative.
Learned several things just by watching an 1100 with ATC operate, meeting...
A build thread where it all could be pulled together from a multitude of researchers would be great,
Thanks
Dave
Received thefoot pedal kit for the PDB on my 1100 a while back , just now getting around to plugging it In . Cant seem to find docs for Pedal or PDB ...
Tried unplugging the little black...
Several times after creating a pgm using a PP 1.9.3 concersational screen I have wanted to go back to the
conversational screen to either tweak or finnally append the file to another....but...
What is the procedure for taking a screenshot ?
Thanks
Dave
Did you happen to be using the laser with a Tormach ? I 'd like to hear a success story of a Tormach /Laser combo.
I set up an oxacetylene torch with a bracket extending off the Tormach table...
Found that after a reset I could move Z anywhere I wanted and when it stopped...it kicked out the reset.
Shoving the Z upper switch limit in very hard to full depth of travel "fixed" the...
Had always worked OK but this morning when I tried Referencencing the Z axis,
on my 1100....... head goes up..... it finds LS and kicks out the onscreen reset button......
Last week the...
Glad to see you are moving......on. I am interested in Novakon and came here to see if you guys would be at the NAMES show.....tomorrow.
Obviously not ,,,with the big move and resettlement...
In the documentation for the "pocket" it states that a stepover of zero creates a single pass (or rectangular slot) around the perimeter (inside) of the pocket.
I am getting the rectangular...