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Has anyone tried mounting a small bench grinder on a lath cross slide to use like a toolpost grinder?

I have seen rotary tools on lathes, angle grinders and various other tools, but never a small...

Got it wired up. Testing on bench, so far works great. Result!

They cama in a little plastic bag with nuts and washers.

Thanks all!
Will try that tommorow!

Can anyone tell me how to wire my huanyang vfd to this motor. Its a brand new and came with some jumpers for star delta .
I have enclosed some pics of motor. Thanks!

I bought a Huanyang HY01D523B VFD rated 1.5KW 7A and a Motori Bonora Type H80B/4 0.75KW 3 phase motor. I need to buy a cable to connect the motor to the vfd. Can anyone recomend a cable suitable...

Thanks for that. I will get some rail and will make my own supports!

Linear shafts are cheap, supported shafts are not. I want to make my own supported rail, problem is i want to use hardened rails but i cant drill and tap hardened steel. Does anyone know where i...

Thanks for advice!

I need to cut some gears out of MDF on my CNC benchtop mill and i need help with speeds and feeds depth of cut etc.


I am cutting MDF of 8mm thickness
5mm dia 2 flute tungsten carbide straight...

My fault!
one of the pullys was a bit loose on motor shaft and moving under cutting forces but not during testing.
Silly me.

I am trying to cut some gears out of MDF.
I am using a 5mm router bit to cut a 10mm hole in the gear center,but the holes are not quite round, they look slightly egg shaped.
I have set backlash...

Has anyone managed to get EMC2 in simulator mode working on PcLinuxOs2009?
I want it for checking code on my home laptop before I try it on my cnc mill in my cold shed. Any help appreaciated.

Does anyone know howto get a computer running ubuntu 8 emc2 to connect to the internet via its wireless LAN?

Sorted Thanks!

Where is the filter section in the ini file?

i am using ubuntu 8 emc2 and it works great.
Looking through the manual it says a program called image to g-code is included and it automatically recognises picture files when you open them in...

I have ubuntu 8 with emc2 running on my desktop computer.
How do i sompensate for backlash in xyz axis. The my-mill file made with Stepconf wizard do not mention backlash ?

The sony`s BIOS does not have the option to turn off sound. Need to find some other way, but thanks for the reply.

I have a sony vaio PCG-FX802 laptop with 512mb ram that i want to run EMC2.

The live CD (Ubuntu with EMC2) would not install for me at all it kept hanging no matter what i tried.

I did the...

I have just installed the alternate CD and ran the emc2 script and it now works.
thanks for replying.

when i click on the cnc menu, i get "EMC2", "EMC2 G-Code Quick Refference", "EMC2 Integrator manual",and "EMC2 User Manual" .no stepconf ? I booted directlty off the emc2 cd.

just got emc2 going. how do i start the stepconf program?

I have a sony vaio PCG-FX802 laptop with 512mb ram

The live CD (Ubuntu with EMC2) would not install for me at all it kept hanging no matter what i tried.

I did the Ubuntu alternate CD without...

Dave`s not here!

I downloaded the ubuntu alternate cd and it installed and runs no problem.

Now i have to connect it to the net to do the rest , but i cannot connect to the net yet as i only have a BT Voyager 105...

Are there any plans to to make an EMC2 live cd using a linux other than ubuntu?

ubuntu is the only distro ive tried that dosent load properly on my sony viao fx-802 laptop.

Also now that real...

I tried to download the alternate cd twice, it halts at 29%
Doh!

its a sony vaio fx-802 laptop
1.3 GZ 256 mb

Its a sony vaio fx-802
1.3 ghtz 256 mb