Re: Optical mouse for DRO anyone?

Dan,

Cutter details please...

(The actual solenoid/knife mechanism. Do you have any pics?)

Thank you in advance,

Ballendo

>In CCED, "Dan Mauch" <dmauch@...> wrote:
>I built the wire whacker back around '93. Using a step motor with

a knurled drive roller against a urethane pinch roller. I had wrote
a basic program that was only about 22 lines long which were nested
loops for length, quantity and speed. When I first ran it the pieces
came out a bit short then I realized that I needed to consider 1/2
the diameter of the wire being cut to get the correct length.

> For instance a 1" diameter wheel would be 3.1416" per rev. If you

are cutting insulated wire say 18 gauge which is .080" then you
need to figure 1/2 of that which would be .040 plus 1"X3.1416=3.2672"

> Dan Mauch