sweet - thanks for the videos and pictures On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Tom <kestrel...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Emc2 community, > > I finally produced my first part on my new Kasuga/Emc2 (Mesa 5i20/7i33) knee > mill conversion. I am very happy with the results! The mill will do 500 ipm > rapids, and feeds so far can hit 30 ipm with very accurate results. Lots of > tiny > moves tend to slow the feedrates down a bit, but I have no complaints. > > See the following video sample of the toolpath being cut for a lightening > pocket: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWd29Vv1gcA > > Here is how I am handling manual tool changes: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2whmSV74vw > > Some more photos of the conversion and the first part to come from it (the > part > is a heavy duty triple tree for a V8 powered trike - to give you an idea of > the > scale, the polished fork tube in the following photos is 2" dia.): > http://www.foxpointdesign.com/cnc_stuff/conversion_sm.jpg > http://www.foxpointdesign.com/cnc_stuff/firstpart2sm.jpg > http://www.foxpointdesign.com/cnc_stuff/tripleT-sm.jpg > http://www.foxpointdesign.com/cnc_stuff/tripleT-sm.jpg > http://www.foxpointdesign.com/cnc_stuff/ttclamp2-sm.jpg > > The parts are coming out soooo fine. No dwell marks, no backlash comp marks, > just nice smooth surfaces. Accuracy is dead-on. I'm really happy right now :-) > > A hearty thank you to all of you who have taken the time and dedication to > post > your conversion information (Anders W.), as well as those who wrote the > software, made the interface boards, and graciously answered all my questions > and put up with my stupidities (Chris R., Peter W., Sebastian, John K., Alex, > Kirk, Stephen W.P., et al.) > > Thank you all! > Tom > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > >
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