[Valen]

Afternoon everybody,
Just figured I'd say hello on behalf of russell (rusl) and myself.



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We have just converted our hare and forbes HM45 mill to CNC with servos,glass linear scales and EMC2 and we are in the process of getting things set "just so" as they say. I'll be putting up details on our conversion here in a while but there's a quick intro to it here on the EMC site. http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emc...akeAndRussells

We mainly did the conversion to build bits for our combat robots, we don't actually have one at the moment but if any of you guys are interested check out http://www.robowars.org/forum/ We are "The Planners" over there Valen and Russell, currently with Plan-G
last round videos http://www.robowars.org/forum/viewto...=asc&start=104

We are also making an open source high accuracy tool length measurement widget which you guys might be interested in as well.http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?p=806018

[wildgrav]

Must Be the week for it. First cuts today

Noel

[Valen]

how did you handle the backlash in the quill?
we wound up motorising the whole z axis.

[wildgrav]

gave it no attention Just needed to get it going for a particular use. Have another larger bridgeport to modify for all the accurate work which won't happen till January