On Thursday 08 November 2012 23:42:01 Rondal Nannie did opine: > Gene > This is a different question about the pawn part that is in emc2 > programs. Is there a print for that pawn part and if so where could I > get it to print it off? Sorry if this is not the proper procedure to > access the site but it seems that your name has been on here all the > time for years so I figured you would be a go to person. Also some of > the other programs that are already written and stored as program files > do not work and fail to run? Dont know if it is my setup or the > programs. Thanks in advance Rondal
Thanks for the flowers Rondal, but I, despite my probably being the old man of the crowd here at 78, and on this list for at least half a decade, am not really the goto guy for this as I was not a machinist (except accidentally in the function of my job) in my working life, but a broadcast engineer with what used to be a 1st Phone before the commission threw us under the bus, and a C.E.T., a considerably more technical test than the 1st Phone was. All that, about about a buck forty will get you a 16 oz coffee to go at your neighborhood 7-11. :) What I can say is that the pawn code exercises my machine rather nicely. If I ever come across a suitable sized piece of aluminum, I might make one just for a shelf decorator. Steel would possibly work too, but at that cut depth in steel, I suspect my puny spindle motor would cause the fuse replacement bill to rise vertically. It is a nominally 12 year old 7x12 that I just put motors on and a ball screw in the X axis this past year. I've cut threads up to 5/8" 27tpi that look like works of art if the single tooth is sharp. The one thing that program doesn't do is pause for a tool change to a cutoff blade, and cut off the finished pawn. I'd still have to do all that by hand, at very slow feeds and several stops to sharpen the cutoff blade, way too much rubber between the spindle bearings and the tool bit on that size toy lathe. Nothing beats cast iron and I can pick up the table top its screwed to and carry it without help, not that much cast iron in it. If I thought I had another decade, I'd drive up to Grizzly (its a half day trip each way from here) & get the small gunsmiths special & cnc it. Unforch I am also a type 2 diabetic, so another decade is doubtful. Soooo, I continue to polish this sows ear of a lathe. It makes the little parts, like a 209 nipple for one of my BP rifles quite nicely. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! You could live a better life, if you had a better mind and a better body. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
