On 08/02/2013 11:46 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > On Fri, 8/2/13, Kirk Wallace <kwall...@wallacecompany.com> wrote: > > > Now, if a machine is being used used to put one's kids through > college, I would agree that spending a few buckets of money on > known-good hardware and saving downtime may make a lot more sense. > ------------------------------ > > No kids here.
In that case, I would tend to just get what you have on hand to work. A lot can be done with a breadboard and a PCI parallel port card. http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/00011-1a.jpg http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/00012-1a.jpg http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/mpg_proto-1a.jpg My guess is that little of this work will be undone or wasted. I went from decommissioning the Bandit to three moving axes, shown in the first two pictures, in a day. I could have started making chips by operating the spindle manually. > Something else about this mill, it has cogged belts for speed > reduction on all three axes. I haven't had time since bringing it > home to start taking things apart. Was an over 600 mile round trip to > get it. When do we get to see pictures? > Will be at a sci-fi/anime/horror/etc convention in Nampa, ID all this > weekend. Haven't missed it since its first year in 2004. ;-) This is > my annual three day vacation from everything. In Idaho? I thought we Californians were known for our fruits and nuts. :) -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
