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nick

ballscrews are brilliant had a small mill drill i cnc'd 6 years ago after about 2years i converted to ballscrews and it gave me a new machine better cuts faster speeds could climb mill no...

Hi nick

running direct drive you will see the steps in you curves aspecially the tighter ones unless you get good microstepping drives 450oz-in should be heaps
if you spring load you pinon for...

Hi nflutter

a mate of mine just finnished building a large router 5ft x15ft here is the link

cost him about $3500 plus motors and controllers and the design is free helpfull forums aswell and...

Hi huongthanh
i think the phase should shift like this

terminal1++++-++++-
terminal2+++-++++-+
terminal3++-++++-++
terminal4+-++++-+++
terminal5-++++-++++

so only one coil powers down at...

Hi trubleshtr

no luck here but then again i havent spent much time trying either
2 young kids and building an aircraft leave little time for tinkering at the moment

cheers
Harty

Hi mxpro32
i am currentlt running mastercam 9 with emc2 works very well with the emcmpfan post processor if you pm me i can send you a copy

cheers
harty

hi all
i have just finnished installing the new emc2 bdi ubuntu 8.04 live cd and i have to tell you what a sweet little package
i have been running emc for over 5 years and always struggled a bit...

Hi mahia2005

thanks for the reply
i have a Suwa Seikosha SSR-H 414 not functioning at the moment it has an error code come up that i cant get a descrition for i have a manual but it lists error...

Hi mahia2005

how have you got your robot setup
does it use spel for programing or have you retrofitted it
i have a Suwa Seikosha SSR-H 414 but i dont have anything to program it with and have...

hi Matthew

as unterhaus said ppr is the number of pulses per revoultion of the encoder for emc you need to have a fairly low resolution encoder 100ppr works great
the higher resolution encoders...

hi mattinker

emc 2 will and does cut threads very well i have been using it for a couple of months and cut about 50 threads
you will need an encoder of about 100ppr to put on the spindle and...

hi jayson

I recon if you asked nicely someone would give you another ballscrew or 2

cheers
harty

Hi craig

here is the one i use its for mastercam 9 and it works for me on emc and emc 2

cheers
harty

thanks andy55

its already setup on a spare port i have been testing threading with turbocnc
but editing hal is something i have not done
which file do i need to edit and what parameters do i...

i have a lathe running turbocnc(dont realy like it much) and a mill with emc2 (love it)what do i need to do to get emc2 to run the lathe (eg get it to see the spindle pulse )

cheers
harty

hi vac

bit out of my experience range with linux on that one sorry

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harty

the newer bdis need more recources they do run on the older machine but there bloody slow to load

cheers
harty

Hi vacpress
i am running and older bdi of emc on a p200 and it works great

cheers
harty

Thanks for the info hotponyshoes i think that the change in speed would actually be a good thing
im not to well versed in linux and would like as much info as possible before buying it but i think...

Hi has anyone tried using a powermate as a jog wheel for emc
http://www.eviloverlord.net/powermate.html

cheers
harty

Hi john

the ballscrews are 5/8 and there 5tpi
i am using stock bearings just added a brass bush to the end od the x axis where the belt sprocket is
both the ballnuts are threaded into the...

this is the last of them and it sure is nice to get rid of that backlash

cheers
harty

some more

here are the pics fo my ballscrew converson hope this helps

hi pete

my machine is in bits at the moment for the ballscrew conversion i will post some pic's of the conversion and the mill when its finnished
that should be in a couple of days

cheers...

hi PeteZ28

i was cutting aluminium last night with a 5/8" end mill full cutter width at a depth of .1" and 30 inches a minute spindle speed 2500rpm
it actually started to stall the spindle but...

Hi all
does anyone have a postprocessor that will work from matercamx to emc

cheers
harty

Hi 109jb

i have a similar machine converted it to cnc about 3 years ago im running 200 in-oz stepper and 1:1ratio they work fine haven't lost any steps yet on a job the z has a 2:1 ratio off the...