Flashcut on a taig mill

Message: 7
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 08:32:31 -0500
From: Steve Ross <sross@...>
Subject: Flashcut on a taig mill

Hi

Does anyone have experience using the flashcut retrofit on a cnc ready Taig
mill. I am think about using it. What is your advice.

[It should work great. The weirdest thing about the CNC-ready Taig is the
power-transmission system, with 4 plastic whiskers to transmit motion
between two hubs with 4 matching holes; aside from that it's pretty
standard, with 23-frame motor mounts provided. Are you considering the servo
or stepper option? I haven't done it yet myself, but I'm planning to try it
(with servos), since I'm a Taig dealer and just signed up with Flashcut as
well. ]

And will it
run milimeters as well as inchs. Taig's own DOS software system it seems
only runs on inch's

Thanks
Steve

[No it can deal with millimeters as well. They don't make metric collets,
though, so the tooling has to have Imperial shanks. By the way, does anyone
out there know of a source for small metric ball-end endmills on inch
shanks, or would these have to be custom-manufactured?]


Andrew Werby
www.computersculpture.com