Re: [Emc-users] two X axes on a lathe?

2013-05-20 Thread jeremy youngs
first off good find second forget abourt the whole deal i will double your money now :) third im thinking 2 hardinge style cnc turrets one close and one at the end On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:13 PM, John Kasunich wrote: > OK, I admit that this post is partly just a tool gloat, but I > do won

Re: [Emc-users] two X axes on a lathe?

2013-05-20 Thread Ralph Stirling
Nice catch, John. I've dreamed of finding two identical such speed lathes. My plan would be to have both headstocks on a real beefy linear rail (think size 45 or 55), with two X axes on another rail. The headstocks would give me Z motion, and I could do part transfer and back side work, as wel

[Emc-users] two X axes on a lathe?

2013-05-20 Thread John Kasunich
OK, I admit that this post is partly just a tool gloat, but I do wonder if anyone has done a lathe with two independent X axes? The gloat: I just bought a Dunham Tool Co, "Optimatic Lensmaker" for $115 plus tax. It was originally used to make contact lenses. It has a normal Z axis, but no X. In

Re: [Emc-users] Small & Easy To Install Embedded PC Power Supply

2013-05-20 Thread dave
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p3902.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0&_nkw=ac-dc+12v++5a+power+supply&_sacat=0&_from=R40 On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 10:34 -0400, Dave wrote: > On 5/19/2013 4:40 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: > > On 5/19/2013 3:11 PM, Bruce Layne wrote: > > > >> <...> > >> > >> I've been getti

Re: [Emc-users] Success: Added physical button to Start or Resume program execution.

2013-05-20 Thread Dave
I use a lot of Allen Bradley equipment. Not because I want to, but because Allen Bradley is so embedded in US industry. Then tend to be the most expensive and least friendly company to deal with yet American companies keep buying their stuff. Most of their equipment is of good to excellent quali

Re: [Emc-users] Small & Easy To Install Embedded PC Power Supply

2013-05-20 Thread Dave
On 5/19/2013 4:40 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: > On 5/19/2013 3:11 PM, Bruce Layne wrote: > >> <...> >> >> I've been getting the Intel D525MW motherboards and I'm liking them so >> far. I'm putting 4GB of RAM on them so they shouldn't need to swap to >> the 64 GB solid state drive. All of that mak

Re: [Emc-users] Small & Easy To Install Embedded PC Power Supply

2013-05-20 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 20.05.13 02:21, andy pugh wrote: > On 19 May 2013 22:21, Florian Rist wrote: > > > http://www.mini-box.com/PicoPSU-80-WI-32V > > >From a technical standpoint it makes no sense, but the 12V - 32V > PicoPSUs are so much more expensive than the 12V versions that it > might make more sense to a

Re: [Emc-users] Joints_axes3 branch

2013-05-20 Thread Andrew
Hello again, I continue using JA3 branch, questions appear. Joypad control was added to HAL, and it works well. But every time the machine starts 3 similar errors pop (must be for every joint): "command (EMC_JOG_STOP) cannot be executed until the machine is out of E-stop and turned on" The same j