Re: Digital screwcutting "gearbox"

I give up !
You're right,guess I was going the wrong way of the road.
I first started with Dankam, drives from camtronics and a sherline
mill about 7 years ago then:
Grizzly minimill+ Deskcnc
As for today, I have a servo controlled(rutex drives)solid cast iron
4 axis moving table gantry built by mysef similar to the Holand MDX600
It has 600 x 600 x 150 mm x,y,z still using the grizzly minimill
motor and head stock.
I'll upload the pics of it this week
I'm getting a lot of 3D jobs for the gantry most on nylon, renshape
and alluminun so it's keeping me busy.
If it was not enough I've just got a south bend lathe clone that I
have to bring back to life.
So I have decided to hang that deskcnc board and another PC to the
lathe.
Maybe a ATC later on.

Cheers !

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, KM6VV <KM6VV@a...> wrote:
>
> Hi Paul, Fogassa,
>
> I'll agree with you Paul! I initially put stepper motors on my
Sherline 17"
> lathe just so I wouldn't have to crank it all that way. JOG was
all I wanted.
>
> But after using my CNC controller program on to jog the lathe for a
while, I
> quickly discovered that it was great to be able to "MDI" the axis
around. Much
> easier to type "G01 Z -3.4" then hold the jog key down all that
time. The next
> step was to write short Gcode programs to face off, turn down or do
other
> operations.
>
> Then, with Vector CAD/CAM available and a tapered column for a
steam engine to
> make, I learned how to create Gcode programs to turn columns with
tapers and
> rings. Also connecting a rod with a fish belly, flutes and rings
as well.
>
> I have plans to get my "motion code" from my CNC controller program
(DOS) down
> into a PIC (18F4620). Then, I'll be free to run steppers with a
small
> standalone microprocessor, or use it as a "black box" and drive it
from a Windoz
> program.
>
> Alan KM6VV
>
> Paul Kelly wrote:
> > I don't disagree with any of your points. I've heard the "I just
want to do
> > this something simple" argument a few times. It has merit. So
long as that
> > one simple thing is all you will ever want to do.. My own
experience is
> > that, having made something move for the first time, I was
instantly hooked
> > and, inevitably, went on to bigger and better things.
> >
> > PK
> >
>