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2009-01-18 Thread Andre B.
At 06:50 AM 1/18/2009, you wrote: >Hello John, >I can't understand all that chat about Mesa 5xxx and 7xxx etc. without >knowing what these boards are and what they do. I see that Mesa boards and >their names are used widely in EMC. Here in Germany I can't even find the >brand name of Mesa in ebay.

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2009-01-18 Thread Anders Wallin
Peter blodow wrote: > Hello John, > I can't understand all that chat about Mesa 5xxx and 7xxx etc. without > knowing what these boards are and what they do. I see that Mesa boards and > their names are used widely in EMC. Here in Germany I can't even find the > brand name of Mesa in ebay. > Ple

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2009-01-18 Thread Peter blodow
Hello John, I can't understand all that chat about Mesa 5xxx and 7xxx etc. without knowing what these boards are and what they do. I see that Mesa boards and their names are used widely in EMC. Here in Germany I can't even find the brand name of Mesa in ebay. Please supply a link to description

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2009-01-18 Thread Tom
Donnie Timmons writes: > > Tom > > I'm glad your up and running. Nice looking part! > > Could you share your hal and ini files? Seam I made the mistake of going the 5i23 on my machine and the drivers > are faulty. No ouputs. So I was looking at starting over with a 5i20 to replace the 5i23 and

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2009-01-17 Thread John Kasunich
Donnie Timmons wrote: > Tom > > I'm glad your up and running. Nice looking part! > > Seam I made the mistake of going the 5i23 on my machine and the drivers are > faulty. No ouputs. Has either Seb Kuzminsky or Peter Wallace told you that the drivers are faulty? If they say it works, it works,

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2009-01-17 Thread Donnie Timmons
Tom I'm glad your up and running. Nice looking part! Could you share your hal and ini files? Seam I made the mistake of going the 5i23 on my machine and the drivers are faulty. No ouputs. So I was looking at starting over with a 5i20 to replace the 5i23 and use the 7i33 and 7i37 I already have

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2009-01-16 Thread Tom
Andre B. writes: > Yep, were it me I would put some bigger radii in the corners and run > a carbide ball end mill finish pass with say 0.005" or less down > steps. Wind it up as fast as it will turn and feed it as fast as it will go. > > In the video that squawking that John is referring to

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2009-01-16 Thread Jon Elson
John Kasunich wrote: > > One thing to keep in mind when considering the tapered end mill idea > is chatter. > > The existing stepped design limits the depth of cut (width of cutting > edge engaged) to the height of one step. If you use a tapered end > mill, the cutting edge will be engaged in t

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2009-01-16 Thread Andre B.
At 09:48 AM 1/16/2009, you wrote: >One thing to keep in mind when considering the tapered end mill idea >is chatter. > >The existing stepped design limits the depth of cut (width of >cutting edge engaged) to the height of one step. If you use a >tapered end mill, the cutting edge will be engag

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2009-01-16 Thread John Kasunich
Tom wrote: Those are tapered walls. The contours for those pockets are about 50 thou inset at the bottom of the pocket, so the walls are that much thicker down there. It might be worth investigating using a 3/8 endmill with a 1/16" radius end. That would give some gradation to each Z level step

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2009-01-16 Thread Kenneth Lerman
Get a tapered end mill. Ken Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: > Tom wrote: > >> Steve Blackmore writes: >> >> >> >>> Hi Tom - can't you remove them with a full depth finishing cut? Distinct >>> edges like that are stress magnets ;) >>> >>> Steve Blackmore >>> >>> >> Hi Steve, >> Those are tap

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2009-01-16 Thread Tom
Greg Michalski writes: snip... > Aside from a 5 axis (drool..), would a tapered endmill (such as used for > mold work) achieve the desired angle? Just spit-balling. Very nice work > Tom - great to see stuff like this. Thanks Greg. I have not used tapered endmill yet, but it looks favorable

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2009-01-16 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:19:25 + (UTC), you wrote: >Those are tapered walls. The contours for those pockets are about 50 thou inset >at the bottom of the pocket, so the walls are that much thicker down there. It >might be worth investigating using a 3/8 endmill with a 1/16" radius end. That >wo

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2009-01-15 Thread Jon Elson
Tom wrote: > Hi Steve, > Those are tapered walls. The contours for those pockets are about 50 thou > inset > at the bottom of the pocket, so the walls are that much thicker down there. It > might be worth investigating using a 3/8 endmill with a 1/16" radius end. That > would give some gradation t

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2009-01-15 Thread Chris Radek
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:44:48PM -0500, Greg Michalski wrote: > > I saw the mention of EMC2 2.3...at the risk of getting the whole list > drooling on keyboards and causing mass crashing of emc-users list member's > computers, is 2.3 expected within the next ~3 months or so? I think this plan st

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2009-01-15 Thread Greg Michalski
> >>Hi Tom - can't you remove them with a full depth finishing cut? Distinct > >>edges like that are stress magnets ;) > >> > >>Steve Blackmore > > > >Hi Steve, > >Those are tapered walls. The contours for those pockets are about 50 thou inset > >at the bottom of the pocket, so the walls are that m

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2009-01-15 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Tom wrote: >Steve Blackmore writes: > > > >>Hi Tom - can't you remove them with a full depth finishing cut? Distinct >>edges like that are stress magnets ;) >> >>Steve Blackmore >> >> > >Hi Steve, >Those are tapered walls. The contours for those pockets are about 50 thou inset >at the bott

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2009-01-15 Thread Tom
Steve Blackmore writes: > Hi Tom - can't you remove them with a full depth finishing cut? Distinct > edges like that are stress magnets ;) > > Steve Blackmore Hi Steve, Those are tapered walls. The contours for those pockets are about 50 thou inset at the bottom of the pocket, so the walls ar

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2009-01-15 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:40:59 + (UTC), you wrote: >> Are the parallel marks inside the part made on purpose or due to the multi >> layer milling ? >> >> Jorge L. > >Hi Jorge, > >Those marks are from multi layer milling. Hi Tom - can't you remove them with a full depth finishing cut? Distinct

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2009-01-15 Thread Tom
<=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Louren=E7o_Jr.?=> writes: > Tom, bravo ! > > Are the parallel marks inside the part made on purpose or due to the multi > layer milling ? > > Jorge L. Hi Jorge, Those marks are from multi layer milling. Tom ---

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2009-01-15 Thread Jorge Lourenço Jr .
Tom, bravo ! Are the parallel marks inside the part made on purpose or due to the multi layer milling ? Jorge L. -Mensagem original- De: Tom [mailto:kestrel...@yahoo.com] Enviada em: quinta-feira, 15 de janeiro de 2009 03:23 Para: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Assunto: [Emc-users] Su