On Monday 26 September 2016 08:22:23 Robert Ellenberg wrote:

> Hi Kirk,
>
> The best way to compare would be Z acceleration. It's easy to add to
> the HAL file (needs an extra differentiator). Then, we can look
> directly at the magnitudes of acceleration. Lower amplitude = less
> jitter.
>
> On a slight tangent what do you think of adding a warning / error if
> the TP can't reach the requested feed in G33 moves? It seems that if
> you're doing threading, close enough is not good enough in terms of
> tracking. The user might want to know before they cut that the spindle
> speed or feed / rev is too high.
>
Field report:

I actually ran into this on my G0704 when I had that 1600oz/in motor on 
the Z.  Because the tap in the spindle was a 1/2" 13 tpi, I had visions 
of doing a peck tap that was a small enough peck that the stored energy 
in the 800 rpm spindle would contribute to the cutting. But that 800 
exceeded the Z maxvel with that motor which was around 28 IPM.  So I had 
to slow it down.  At 400 the tap slipped after about 3/4 turn into the 
work, which I caught, backed it out and put a tap handle on the tap & 
finished the hole by hand.

That was when I questioned the list for a tap holder that would grab the 
square butt of the tap, but even in R8, which is keyed to the spindle, I 
was not able to source a tap holder I could afford. All north of a 100$ 
bill and to cover all the taps I might use I would have blown a kilobuck 
or more.

I even knocked the T handle out of a hand tapper that looked promising, 
but it was, when chucked up, about 5mm's out of plumb with its own 
knurled nut on the other end. So bad I never put a tap in it, I'd have 
broken the tap pushing it into line with the hole.  The pick any 2 rule 
hard at work...

Even with Jon Elson's driver making a horse and a half, maybe 2 out of 
that 1 horse, the spindles low gear still couldn't turn that tap 
steadily to the bottom of the hole, not enough geardown. 800 revs was 
about 55% of wide open in low gear. Its about a 2/1 gearchange, and the 
motor rated at 1 hp at 2250 revs stock in high gear when driven by the 
OEM driver, can be driven to 2850 with a 126 volt dc supply which is 
current limited in the amp setup to about 16 amps. How many hp is that?

And yes, I do recognize the singing when it limits. Even TLM does it at 
startup.  The gears in the G0704's head seem to be holding, but the 
roller skate bearings in the head are destroying their ball cages. I am 
hoping it hangs in there till I get this Sheldon working. :(  That lack 
of turn a tap torque is why the new brass gib on the front of the 
Sheldon saddle will have a row of 4mm cap screws holding it. The saddle 
castings front edge is not IMO, robust enough to do that job if 
perforated for a row of 1/4" cap screws. So I figure a 4mm cap screw 
about every 2 cm is about what the Dr. would order. It will need a few 
thou of shimming. That I can cut from what Ed Nisley was nice enough to 
send me, and punch the bolt holes with a paper punch.

Thanks Robert.

[...]

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Emc-developers mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers

Reply via email to