On Saturday 13 January 2018 23:56:21 Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On 13.01.18 19:59, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > I did get the mt5-5c adapter running pretty true, about half a thou
> > of runout in the bore of an ER-40 adapter plugged into it, but the
> > nut on the ER-40 is absolute trash. You can see
On 13.01.18 19:59, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I did get the mt5-5c adapter running pretty true, about half a thou of
> runout in the bore of an ER-40 adapter plugged into it, but the nut on
> the ER-40 is absolute trash. You can see it wobbling, and it pulls the
> nose of a collet sideways so bad the
On Saturday 13 January 2018 18:47:46 andy pugh wrote:
> On 14 January 2018 at 00:27, wrote:
> > But, as can be seen in the image below, the various retraction paths
> > (in blue) are not along a single driveline. Why is that?
>
> I believe that this is to that every pass is the same shape, so en
On Saturday 13 January 2018 17:27:39 tom-...@bgp.nu wrote:
> Another question related to threading…. It is my understanding that
> when cutting internal threads (or external threads) that after a
> threading pass the tool should return to the driveline (“I”) in order
> to retract for the next pass
On Saturday 13 January 2018 13:17:19 tom-...@bgp.nu wrote:
> Gene,
>
> > On Jan 13, 2018, at 8:18 AM, Gene Heskett
> > wrote:
> >
> > This is confusing Tom. From the video I'd assume the enco is a slant
> > bed machine. So this s/b equ to a regular lathe, with the z axis
> > rotated some arbitra
On 14 January 2018 at 00:27, wrote:
> But, as can be seen in the image below, the various retraction paths (in
> blue) are not along a single driveline. Why is that?
I believe that this is to that every pass is the same shape, so ensure that
everything is the same.
I am not sure that this make
Another question related to threading…. It is my understanding that when
cutting internal threads (or external threads) that after a threading pass the
tool should return to the driveline (“I”) in order to retract for the next
pass. But, as can be seen in the image below, the various retraction
Gene,
> On Jan 13, 2018, at 8:18 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
> This is confusing Tom. From the video I'd assume the enco is a slant bed
> machine. So this s/b equ to a regular lathe, with the z axis rotated
> some arbitrary, might not be 90 degrees CCW as viewed from the tailstock
> end. All
On Saturday 13 January 2018 00:25:26 Tom Easterday wrote:
> We have been successfully using G76 for external threading on our
> EmcoTurn 120P lathe for some time. We haven’t yet used it for internal
> boring or threading. We have an application to make some internal Acme
> threads in a cylinder. W
