On Wednesday 05 October 2016 07:44:08 linden wrote: > Happy birthday Gene, > > Thank you for generously sharing your wealth of diverse knowledge > and experience with the likes of us. If it were not for a hole > generation of men and women like you that took the time and had the > patience to share there experiences and show this little hippy kid how > the world worked who knows where I would have ended up. > > I hope one day I am as active and as willing to help others as > you have been and facing every situation with a twist of humor. > > As my grandmother that made it to 99 was fond of saying "growing up is > optional growing old is inevitable" > > Take care and looking forward to here more words of wisdom and the odd > random though that rattles around in that head of yours for years to > come. > > Linden
Thank you Linden. Your Grandmother was an astute observer of life. And I do hope, as we all do, to get to the age where we don't think of something in terms of its commercial advantage just to ourselves. I think the word is altruistic. If I can benefit, so can all of us. That discovery of being able to cut a tapered thread with the std g76 was one such. The angles are less than pipe thread in taper, but extremely usefull when coupling a knob/shaft to a ball screw, and the grip seems extremely capable of anchoring that screw forever in day to day work. Until such time as I must replace the screw, its a bit small for the job, but I had it on the shelf. In retrospect, now that I understand it better, I could have invoked it a second time for the straight threaded portion by offsetting the starting point an exact multiple of the pitch. But I only had to make one, and what I did, had some interference at the transition point, but worked anyway. What surprised me was that the G76 doc rewrite just done, still contains the statement that E cannot be more than half the thread length cut when, if using L2, E can be as large as the thread length minus one pitch. That is not an error, and its a great way to do a low angle taper for a compression fitting. As shown by the snapshots I posted. > On 10/04/2016 10:11 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 October 2016 23:09:47 Jack Coats wrote: > >> Hope you have had a great anniversary of full revolutions around > >> Sol! .. .In short, Happy Birthday Gene! > > > > Not too bad Jack, once all the other factors are stirred in, I think > > it was pretty good. The biggest thing of course is to be here to > > brag about it. :) > > > > Thank you. > > > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>--- -------- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the > >> world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! > >> http://sdm.link/slashdot > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Emc-users mailing list > >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >-------- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's > most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users 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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
