Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 10 March 2014 23:10:06 Bill did opine: > Sorry to come into the discussion so late. > > The metric belts seem to have round teeth while the imperial have > trapezoidal. > > Can you check which they are. > > Bill > Definitely trapezoidal Bill, thanks. See my msg to JK, the darned thi

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 10 March 2014 22:55:43 John Kasunich did opine: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014, at 08:36 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 10 March 2014 20:28:53 John Kasunich did opine: > > > HTD: PD = 1.880" OD = 1.835" > > > GT2: PD = 1.880" OD = 1.835" > > > XL: PD = 1.910" OD = 1.890" > > > T5: PD =

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 10 March 2014 22:51:58 andy pugh did opine: > On 11 March 2014 00:36, Gene Heskett wrote: > > No mark of that sort >POM< in one of the casting webs is it. > > > > Looks like pretty fresh casting to > > me. In some sort of black ABS? > > It's POM :-) > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 10 March 2014 20:46:27 Gene Heskett did opine: > On Monday 10 March 2014 20:28:53 John Kasunich did opine: > > Gene: > > > > It seems like you're going about this the hard way. > > > > The first step is to identify the belt family. Look at the > > shape of the teeth on the belt. Are t

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-10 Thread Brian Morel
This struck my interest as I deal with a lot of timing belts at work. There are some rarer trapezoidal profile with 5mm pitch. I just looked at my little 7x lathe and it has the same belt ( 1.5x70 ). I'm not going to be using my lathe until the weather turns, so tomorrow night I'll pull the b

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-10 Thread Bill
Sorry to come into the discussion so late. The metric belts seem to have round teeth while the imperial have trapezoidal. Can you check which they are. Bill -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-10 Thread Jon Elson
On 03/10/2014 03:55 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: The standard Imperial belts are .080 (MXL), .200 (XL) and .375 (L). The standard metric belts are 3, 5 and 10 mm, but I used some pulleys that needed 2 mm belts, and didn't know until I found the belts walking the teeth of the pulleys. Those are about

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone machinekit pin selection

2014-03-10 Thread Josiah Morgan
thanks for the response, Charles. I'll check again to make sure the pins were not assigned anywhere else in the code. On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Charles Steinkuehler < char...@steinkuehler.net> wrote: > On 3/10/2014 10:51 AM, Josiah Morgan wrote: > > I have a machinekit configuration wor

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-10 Thread John Kasunich
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014, at 08:36 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 10 March 2014 20:28:53 John Kasunich did opine: > > > > HTD: PD = 1.880" OD = 1.835" > > GT2: PD = 1.880" OD = 1.835" > > XL: PD = 1.910" OD = 1.890" > > T5: PD = 1.880" OD = 1.848" > > Ok, what happens when the pulley OD is

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-10 Thread andy pugh
On 11 March 2014 00:36, Gene Heskett wrote: > No mark of that sort >POM< in one of the casting webs is it. > Looks like pretty fresh casting to > me. In some sort of black ABS? It's POM :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyoxymethylene One trade-name for POM is "Delrin" -- atp If you can't

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 10 March 2014 20:28:53 John Kasunich did opine: > Gene: > > It seems like you're going about this the hard way. > > The first step is to identify the belt family. Look at the > shape of the teeth on the belt. Are they round, or > trapezoidal? Take a look at the pictures here: > http:

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-10 Thread John Kasunich
Gene: It seems like you're going about this the hard way. The first step is to identify the belt family. Look at the shape of the teeth on the belt. Are they round, or trapezoidal? Take a look at the pictures here: http://www.sdp-si.com/D265/HTML/D265T015.html Given that your pitch is approxim

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 10 March 2014 18:33:35 Brian Morel did opine: > Yes, the Pitch Dia. is greater than the OD of the sprocket. take a look > at the below link. > > http://www.brecoflex.com/index.php?CATID=7&SCATID=44 > Looks good, till I tried to use the belt selector, my browser or their web page is b

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 10 March 2014 18:22:18 Brian Morel did opine: > Do you have the LMS part number. I have access to pretty much any kind > of belt through work. I can check tomorrow The current LMS part number, B01-04 1105, is not the correct part, its pitch length is a small percentage longer that th

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 10 March 2014 18:19:45 jeremy youngs did opine: > gene , have a go at this > http://precisionparts.wmberg.com/timingBeltsChains > I am thinking I need a 5mm pitch, 9.5mm wide, 72 cogs long, but they only go up to 3mm pitch. Thanks for looking Jeremy. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 10 March 2014 17:30:25 John Kasunich did opine: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014, at 04:55 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Continuing this thread of trying to determine what belt I need to > > properly fit these pulleys, I have talked to Chris Wood at LMS but he > > can't help me with anything but OEM

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-10 Thread Brian Morel
Yes, the Pitch Dia. is greater than the OD of the sprocket. take a look at the below link. http://www.brecoflex.com/index.php?CATID=7&SCATID=44 On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 5:17 PM, John Kasunich wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014, at 04:55 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Continuing this thread of try

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-10 Thread Brian Morel
Do you have the LMS part number. I have access to pretty much any kind of belt through work. I can check tomorrow Sent from my iPad > On Mar 10, 2014, at 11:35 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 10 March 2014 11:31:19 andy pugh did opine: > >> On 10 March 2014 09:59, Gene Heskett wrote:

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-10 Thread jeremy youngs
gene , have a go at this http://precisionparts.wmberg.com/timingBeltsChains jeremy youngs On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 5:17 PM, John Kasunich wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014, at 04:55 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Continuing this thread of trying to determine what belt I need to > properly > > f

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-10 Thread John Kasunich
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014, at 04:55 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Continuing this thread of trying to determine what belt I need to properly > fit these pulleys, I have talked to Chris Wood at LMS but he can't help me > with anything but OEM parts, so some math based on the gullet od + the tip > od on

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 10 March 2014 16:35:32 Gene Heskett did opine: > On Monday 10 March 2014 11:31:19 andy pugh did opine: > > On 10 March 2014 09:59, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I see that in XL they have a 9.5mm width which would fit, but if you > > > hunt around, the GT2 2mm pitch stuff doesn't match at a

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 3/10/2014 1:12 PM, Dave Cole wrote: > I still can't see the BBB on the network. > > On a power up or reset, the 3 lights next to the reset button sequence > on one by one and the lights on the RJ45 jack flash briefly. > > I'm going to reflash the uSD card and try it again. If that doesn't wo

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-10 Thread Dave Cole
On 3/10/2014 10:35 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > On 3/10/2014 10:30 AM, Dave Cole wrote: >> I'm trying to start up a BBB with Charles' uSD image. >> >> I don't have a micro HDMI cable yet, but one is on the way. >> >> I believe that DHCP is enabled by default? >> >> If that is the case I should

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone machinekit pin selection

2014-03-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 3/10/2014 10:51 AM, Josiah Morgan wrote: > I have a machinekit configuration working for cnc machine I have and am > needing to make a custom "cape" to connect the pinouts with some screw > terminals to output to the drivers. > in order to do this, I would like to move all my step/dir pins to a

[Emc-users] beaglebone machinekit pin selection

2014-03-10 Thread Josiah Morgan
I have a machinekit configuration working for cnc machine I have and am needing to make a custom "cape" to connect the pinouts with some screw terminals to output to the drivers. in order to do this, I would like to move all my step/dir pins to a pinout configuration that doesn't have me crossing w

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 10 March 2014 11:31:19 andy pugh did opine: > On 10 March 2014 09:59, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I see that in XL they have a 9.5mm width which would fit, but if you > > hunt around, the GT2 2mm pitch stuff doesn't match at all. > > You might find > http://www.hpcgears.com/n/products/1.pu

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 3/10/2014 10:30 AM, Dave Cole wrote: > > I'm trying to start up a BBB with Charles' uSD image. > > I don't have a micro HDMI cable yet, but one is on the way. > > I believe that DHCP is enabled by default? > > If that is the case I should be able to SSH to it immediately after it > boots, i

[Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-10 Thread Dave Cole
I'm trying to start up a BBB with Charles' uSD image. I don't have a micro HDMI cable yet, but one is on the way. I believe that DHCP is enabled by default? If that is the case I should be able to SSH to it immediately after it boots, is that correct? I can't see its address as it logs into m

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-10 Thread andy pugh
On 10 March 2014 09:59, Gene Heskett wrote: > I see that in XL they have a 9.5mm width which would fit, but if you hunt > around, the GT2 2mm pitch stuff doesn't match at all. You might find http://www.hpcgears.com/n/products/1.pulleys_belts/pulleys_belts.php useful. I don't think you would wan

Re: [Emc-users] SMI Reduction

2014-03-10 Thread Bill
Thanks Schooner Bill -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this fir

Re: [Emc-users] SMI Reduction

2014-03-10 Thread Schooner
Didn't we establish that your chipset does not have the SMI problem? If you try to load rtai_smi with a chipset which is not on its list, it will just unload again, so you are wasting your time. The instructions you found are very old and relate to a Run In Place installation *

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 10 March 2014 05:53:17 Mark Wendt did opine: > On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > I have no clue why, but the replacement belt I got from LMS to replace > > the one I burnt some cogs out of, is now too short by at least 2, > > maybe 4 teeth. I f

Re: [Emc-users] Little OT, but...

2014-03-10 Thread Mark Wendt
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 3:29 AM, Sven Wesley wrote: > 2014-03-08 19:49 GMT+01:00 Todd Zuercher : > > > Here in the Wayne/Holmes Co. part of Ohio we have a huge Amish > population. > > With a whole spectrum of different kinds, Ranging from higher order > Amish > > that have phones, electric and d

Re: [Emc-users] Need longer belt

2014-03-10 Thread Mark Wendt
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > I have no clue why, but the replacement belt I got from LMS to replace the > one I burnt some cogs out of, is now too short by at least 2, maybe 4 > teeth. I find that by the time I get the motor leveled and the belt > running

[Emc-users] SMI Reduction

2014-03-10 Thread Bill
In the document "Fixing Realtime problems caused by SMI on Ubuntu" there is an instruction: I cannot find either of these directories in Linux Livid. Please Help Bill -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly

Re: [Emc-users] Little OT, but...

2014-03-10 Thread Sven Wesley
2014-03-08 19:49 GMT+01:00 Todd Zuercher : > Here in the Wayne/Holmes Co. part of Ohio we have a huge Amish population. > With a whole spectrum of different kinds, Ranging from higher order Amish > that have phones, electric and drive cars all the way to the lowest of the > low orders of Swartzen