On Sunday 19 July 2020 20:30:35 John Dammeyer wrote: > This may well be a dumb question Gene, but given you have the machine > shop and CNC couldn't you make the gears etc yourself out of metal? > John > Thats why I bought a BS-1, John but I'm only about $250 into motorizing it yet, waiting on a set of reamers ATM so I can make gearbox couplings.
> > -----Original Message----- > > From: Gene Heskett [mailto:ghesk...@shentel.net] > > Sent: July-19-20 4:59 PM > > To: 'Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)' > > Subject: [Emc-users] found a harmonic drive set of .stl's on > > thingiverse > > > > Greetings all; > > > > And I can say without fear of contradiction the openscad IS the > > problem, > > > > I am current about 2mm up of a print of the outside gear of the > > drive, and the teeth are 100% filled and very well formed so far, > > its the best rendering I've seen on the build bed yet, so much > > better than what openscad generates I thought my machine had been > > swapped for a well adjusted one in the night last night. I think > > I'll make about 3 of everything so I'll have 2 drives and a spares > > kit. > > > > Biggest problem is the 12+ hour renderiing time per piece pf this > > first piece, and there are 2 pieces bigger yet than this one. Now I > > can see why some folks have a whole room full of printers. I'll be > > two weeks making parts for three drives. > > > > Hopefully I can put it together correctly, there are no text files > > and I haven't the foggiest what bearings I'll need, or what brand of > > grease. > > > > 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) > > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law > > respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis > > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > _______________________________________________ > 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) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
