Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: digitizing engine camshafts...

Now that sounds like a much better solution. But at what cost?

Smoke

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Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 8:28 AM
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: digitizing engine camshafts...


>
> I'm mostly a lurker, but you reached a subject I know about finally!!
What
> you need is The Cam Doctor, made by Quadrant Scientific of Louisville,
> Colorado. The Cam Doctor is a very precise measuring instrument that
> surveys all camshaft dimensions for example, lift, duration, overlap, ramp
> acceleration, taper, and individual lobe timing tolerance. In operation,
> the Cam Doctor is a simple-looking affair: You lay a cam on some V-blocks,
> bring the position-feeler down onto the cam's base circle, and spin the
cam
> by hand. The unit's output is directed to a nearby desktop computer. The
> captured dimensional data (accurate to ten or twenty millionths of an
inch)
> is instantly plotted on the PC's screen. At the same time, the cam's
design
> data (the theoretical contour, the blueprint data) is also drawn on
screen,
> overlaid, you might say, on top of the real-world cam data. In this
> fashion, the Cam Doctor compares actual cam data against the intended
> design parameters for the cam being tested.
>
> Kendall
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