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Looking at general tips on machining Inconel. I do all types of machining and have quite a bit of experience machining 4140, 304 SS, 1045 and A2. From the videos and little I have read online about...

Wow its been ten years since I joined this site! It does seem like a long time ago. I joined not long before I retro fit my Tree 320. Since then that machine has made more parts than I can remember...

So basically to put it in sorter words in order to run more amps things need to get bigger! Pure frigging electrical genius right there! If you guys think that's good try reading about ohm's law some...

Nice classy business like comment!

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(Notice how they avoid the difficult and correct way to respond to a comment and go straight to personal ridicule. A sure sine of moronic behavior,...

The actual number was 161,483 drives. If you can believe that. But this also came from a company that posted my credit card info on an online forum Ridicules there customers and yes wait for it...

Holy Cow! This thread is almost five years old!
I don't even remember half of it.

Basically I had a bad experience with the servo drives and an issue with the support. Not really a big deal...

This is too funny.

I can certainly understand your pain. You are excited and ready to dive in head first "that is a good thing!" but you are smart enough to know that there is a little more to it...

I think it all depends on the person. Most old time tool makers have a hard time with CNC as the strategy of making the part is quite different at times and it is hard to teach old dogs new tricks....

Hello
Did you ever get this problem sorted out? Normally bubbles "aeration" in a hydraulic system is caused by cavitation "pulling a vacuum". It is not on the schematic but is there a suction...

I believe the software is made by http://www.altium.com/. I do not have it nor ever used it but they offer a 30 day trial that you could download and open it and then do a screen capture of it or...

I have a TB6560AHQ running rather well. I started with the one on PMINMO website and tweaked it a little. I am going to add input Noise filtering along with opto isolation. I think for the cost of...

I have had good luck with "Copley Accelus" Drives. I have used several of them in various applications. They are around twice the price of the Hobby oriented drives but they are about bullet proof....

About a year ago I had posted a thread on doing something like this. I have now gotten other projects out of the way and I am diving back into this one. I have done a lot of reading about building H...

I know I shouldn't post such a worthless post but I gotta say it
They both use Catia! :idea:

There are still people around like this. ;)

Basically I cant imagine being an engineer that doesn't know how to manufacture. The two are one in the same "for me anyway". I guess it might just be...

I like the CAM in Catia. I like to get down to the nuts and bolts of programming and Catia will let you and also allows you to highly automate.
It will handle pretty much anything you can throw at...

That's what I am counting on at the moment. :banana:

I started working in a fab shop running cold saw and gang drills. I then moved up to running a manual punch press and helping the sheer operator and also helped out the guys running the turret lathes...

I have recently had the opportunity to play with some AC synchronous stepper motors. They feel a little different than a normal stepper as they do not cog when you rotate the shaft "no permanent...

I am sorry man I was thinking of Paralells (chair)
"Thats what I get for staying up late and trying to think":tired:

I have tried them both out and my second opinion on Wine/Crossover still...

Crossover is a machine emulator. It emulates an entire machine "PC" in software inside your existing environment "Operating System". Same as VMWare.

Wine is just sort of a translator for the...

I demoed a copy of Crossover for MAC and it was pretty good. At the time it did not have fast 3D graphics so I bailed on it. When I try EMC for the first time I will run it from linux. My personal...

In one of the videos there was a 5 axis machine "modeled" running in EMC2. This looks awesome. Is that something that EMC2 will do by its self or is it an add on or something?

YouTube - EMC2...

Sounds like a great idea to me. Almost all other hobby magazines also make money off the adds they have in them in the back. And it is a great way to get people interested in the hobby. There are...

I am sure you know this but I would like to just refresh a little history.

April 1988
MSDOS 4.0, UNIX, Windows 2.0?, Mac OS6
In 1988 Unix was the state of the art in comparison to all others in...

I have had Vista 32 bit up and running for around 4 months now. Navigating at first is a bit of a pain as a lot of the things are not in the same place as they where in XP. But after a short while...

Thanks Russell

I have a 2HP Hitachi L200 VFD. As far as I can tell it only has two analog inputs. One for current and one for voltage. I have the voltage input setup to be the Target Frequency...

I agree with you on the LM2907 AL. And if I had one of those yesterday that is what I would have used. I was looking for something I could build from spare parts just to get going on things. On my...

I know this thread is old but after just skimming through some of it all I can say is Wow!
I was also looking for something simple that I could build and I found this. ...

The three Digital Servo drives where about 1300$ and the VFD for the spindle was about 200$. The rest of the stuff I scavenged from the original setup or had laying around the garage. The PC is just...