Hi Gene; No, my little Unimat is really just for show. I take it to exhibitions, and it moves around, but does not cut anything.
I *could* take some of my spare parts and make it thread, but to be honest, it's one of the first ones, with a motor that is barely powerful enough to turn the spindle, so I don't think it'll be worth setting up to thread. I have turned some parts from Bronze on it, and it worked actually quite well, but that's about it. I could have turned these parts on my first CNC mill about 10x faster! (It's one of the first ones off the line - a cast iron "Mark1" model, and has right handed feed screws, so was useless for manual machining, as everything went the wrong way compared to my other equipment) Now, I'd like to see Cecil's little watchmakers lathe do the 00-80 screws… JohnS. On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > On Saturday 05 July 2014 19:08:34 John Alexander Stewart did opine > And Gene did reply: > > Andy, Marcus, Claude, Gene; > > > > Thanks for the feedback and the link. > > > > I logged back on to say that I had purchased some of those DM856 > > controllers, enough for my 4 axis mill build, plus one spare, just in > > case. > > > > I do have a larger lathe that I'm trying to get myself to CNC - an Emco > > Compact-8, and those hybrid drives seem really interesting… My little > > Unimat SL- CNC job might have to be put out to pasture when all is > > completed. > > > > Thanks all; JohnS. > > I am glad you found the info useful John. > > Question, did you have the unimat equipt with a spindle encoder so it is > capable of going a G33.1 rigid tap operation? Or a g76 threading > operation? Both of those are handier than sliced bread. > > My hal file is a monster, but I have a 7x12 doing that now, in a peck loop > with a wrapper script I've written, in GCode of course. I mount the tap > in a chuck on the tool post. > > 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> > US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse > Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition > Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows > Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
