Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc Fest for 2015

2015-04-30 Thread Ron Ginger
Tormach has signed up as a vendor and I am waiting for them to specify the seminars they want to deliver. Jon has said he is willing to do a linuxcnc user talk. There is room for more. Although my personal use is Mach I really want this workshop to maintain its broad coverage of hobby CNC as

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 30 April 2015 14:16:55 Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I have been snooping around with my google-fu, and coming up a bit long. Long as in the smallest of tese belts with a kevlar backing, is a 3/8 wide 3 ribber, 21 long. That is too long for what I am trying to do. What

[Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I have been snooping around with my google-fu, and coming up a bit long. Long as in the smallest of tese belts with a kevlar backing, is a 3/8 wide 3 ribber, 21 long. That is too long for what I am trying to do. What I have, under design but not carved just yet, would be a set

Re: [Emc-users] problem setting appropriate speeds in joint and world mode for 6 axis robot with genserkins

2015-04-30 Thread Andrew
2015-04-30 19:23 GMT+03:00 Christian Stöveken christian.stoeve...@gmail.com : So I found like a day and a half to work on our Mantuec R15 / granite devices VSD-XE project again. When trying to run some gcode (generated with RhinoCAM) I noticed the robot was only moving very slowly in world

Re: [Emc-users] problem setting appropriate speeds in joint and world mode for 6 axis robot with genserkins

2015-04-30 Thread Christian Stöveken
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 6:35 PM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 April 2015 at 17:23, Christian Stöveken christian.stoeve...@gmail.com wrote: When switching to world mode the speed limits from axis 1/2/3 apply for X/Y/Z which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. 123 or 012?

Re: [Emc-users] problem setting appropriate speeds in joint and world mode for 6 axis robot with genserkins

2015-04-30 Thread andy pugh
On 30 April 2015 at 17:23, Christian Stöveken christian.stoeve...@gmail.com wrote: When switching to world mode the speed limits from axis 1/2/3 apply for X/Y/Z which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. 123 or 012? Are the axes actually angular? I am not sure what difference that setting

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Todd Zuercher
Try searching for a J section belt, I found some listed as small as 8 OC length (what ever that means). http://beltpalace.com/heavy-duty-belts-poly-v-ribbed--j-section.html - Original Message - From: Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, April

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Dave Cole
Micro V belts are apparently targeted at OEMs like car manufacturers who can make their own pulleys and order thousands of custom spec belts. A friend of mine tried to buy a setup for a custom machine and nothing was off the shelf and the selection of belt lengths was very limited. He could

Re: [Emc-users] Computer crashing. Re: micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 May 2015 00:07:29 Gregg Eshelman wrote: On 4/30/2015 5:51 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I think I am going to have to find another PSU for it, there is no other rhyme or reason for it to go away in the middle of a job, like it has done 3x today. I padded up to the shop tapped the

[Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Roland Jollivet
Hi Gene Have you looked at RS components? http://za.rs-online.com/web/c/pneumatics-hydraulics-power-transmission/power-transmission-belts/timing-belts/?sra=p Regards Roland On 1 May 2015 at 05:15, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Thursday 30 April 2015 21:13:48 N. Christopher Perry

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread MC Cason
They also have high shipping costs. A $15.00 MXL timing belt, was going to cost me $18.00 to ship, so I decided to go elsewhere. On 04/30/2015 08:13 PM, N. Christopher Perry wrote: Ouch! They've been reasonable for the stuff I've been looking for recently, so I thought they might be worth

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread N. Christopher Perry
Ouch! They've been reasonable for the stuff I've been looking for recently, so I thought they might be worth a look. That quote would have given me sticker shock too. N. Christopher Perry On Apr 30, 2015, at 8:13 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Thursday 30 April 2015

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 30 April 2015 21:13:48 N. Christopher Perry wrote: Ouch! They've been reasonable for the stuff I've been looking for recently, so I thought they might be worth a look. That quote would have given me sticker shock too. N. Christopher Perry I think, for those of you using this

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On 4/30/2015 1:52 PM, Dave Cole wrote: Micro V belts are apparently targeted at OEMs like car manufacturers who can make their own pulleys and order thousands of custom spec belts. A friend of mine tried to buy a setup for a custom machine and nothing was off the shelf and the selection of

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 30 April 2015 23:07:02 Gregg Eshelman wrote: On 4/30/2015 12:16 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I have been snooping around with my google-fu, and coming up a bit long. Long as in the smallest of tese belts with a kevlar backing, is a 3/8 wide 3 ribber, 21 long.

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On 4/30/2015 12:16 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I have been snooping around with my google-fu, and coming up a bit long. Long as in the smallest of tese belts with a kevlar backing, is a 3/8 wide 3 ribber, 21 long. That is too long for what I am trying to do. You may have some

[Emc-users] Computer crashing. Re: micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On 4/30/2015 5:51 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I think I am going to have to find another PSU for it, there is no other rhyme or reason for it to go away in the middle of a job, like it has done 3x today. I padded up to the shop tapped the reset button just now so I'll be good for maybe an hour.

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 30 April 2015 16:14:43 Todd Zuercher wrote: Try searching for a J section belt, I found some listed as small as 8 OC length (what ever that means). http://beltpalace.com/heavy-duty-belts-poly-v-ribbed--j-section.html I found that belt earlier today, someplace else at about a 4

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread N. Christopher Perry
Have you tried SDP?: SDP-SI.com N. Christopher Perry On Apr 30, 2015, at 2:16 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Greetings all; I have been snooping around with my google-fu, and coming up a bit long. Long as in the smallest of tese belts with a kevlar backing, is a 3/8 wide

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 30 April 2015 18:19:57 N. Christopher Perry wrote: Have you tried SDP?: SDP-SI.com N. Christopher Perry Thanks Christopher. I got an estimate for a belt 2 timing pulleys from them about a year ago, but they wanted well over $300. I was tempted to ask if the pulley's were made

Re: [Emc-users] micro-v belts, smaller

2015-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 30 April 2015 15:52:44 Dave Cole wrote: Micro V belts are apparently targeted at OEMs like car manufacturers who can make their own pulleys and order thousands of custom spec belts. A friend of mine tried to buy a setup for a custom machine and nothing was off the shelf and the

[Emc-users] problem setting appropriate speeds in joint and world mode for 6 axis robot with genserkins

2015-04-30 Thread Christian Stöveken
So I found like a day and a half to work on our Mantuec R15 / granite devices VSD-XE project again. When trying to run some gcode (generated with RhinoCAM) I noticed the robot was only moving very slowly in world mode in one direction (X axis). I setup all 6 axis as angular axis with the