It may not have been related - but a late work-mate of mine mentioned he was going out of country to all and sundry and found he had been burgularized & the...
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stcnc2000
Sep 11, 2008 8:20 pm
... Metric. Plus I added a few more things to help those who are just starting in CNC that don't know what a 4th Axis can do. Those who have bought please...
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Bill Crews
hophar98
Sep 11, 2008 6:54 pm
I hope you all get much better and get back on line. Bill Crews ... of ... but...
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kd006
Sep 11, 2008 5:21 pm
Nick, Ah the dreaded back to school bug, funny how when you put a bunch of kids in a classroom they always seem to bring that home with them! Take care, get...
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Dean Williams
deanofid
Sep 11, 2008 5:10 pm
I haven't had any kids in school since about '97. Haven't had a cold in nearly 10 years. Hope you all feel better soon! ... but the ... Felice...
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pe3hmp
Sep 11, 2008 5:03 pm
Yep same here. Mark ... From: blmartech To: taigtools@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 6:47 PM Subject: [taigtools] Re: OK, where is Nick? ...
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blmartech
Sep 11, 2008 4:47 pm
same here mine started kindergarden, and already have a house full of sick kids.. ... season... ... Did...
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Nicholas Carter and F...
nickandfelice
Sep 11, 2008 3:29 pm
In an ideal world, I would have been on some sort of vacation, but the sad truth is we all came down with the first cold of the school season... As is typical,...
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kd006
Sep 11, 2008 6:42 am
I've been waiting to see Nick pop up here, seems it's been a week! Did he take a vacation without letting us know? Kristin...
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a1g2r3i
Sep 11, 2008 4:40 am
Many thanks - the idea I had would have been more tedious to implement. I think, frankly, it was somewhat way out and I would like to encourage others to put...
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kd006
Sep 10, 2008 4:34 pm
Pierre, Yes they do have a rediculous ammount of torque, there is about a 2" pulley on the motor which drove the 20" wheels by a flat grooved belt on a 16"...
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kd006
Sep 10, 2008 4:22 pm
Dennis, I have an older Taig mill I just converted to CNC, I bought the X,Y & Z leadscrews and adjustable nuts, I think it was two Y axis nuts so I could use...
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pe3hmp
Sep 10, 2008 6:19 am
Yes there was no 90 degree on the pulley end on this one, so yours have to be opend up to see how you can make it straight, it's possibel that the 90 degree...
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larrys@...
teamlarryohio
Sep 10, 2008 3:56 am
Try applying the same logic to the nut. It just might work. -ls-...
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Pierre Coueffin
darkblood_
Sep 10, 2008 3:44 am
If they're using a worm gear to drive from the motor, I bet they have tons of torque... I would love a setup like that for threading at low speed....
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DennisF MacIntyre
a1g2r3i
Sep 10, 2008 2:42 am
Are you saying that where I said to ease the edge of the thread with a file - - that such would not be enough to keep the edge from acting as a tap? You may be...
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kd006
Sep 9, 2008 9:39 pm
Mark, What I meant was the motors I've got have a 90 degree drive on the pulley end, reducing the RPM to a few hundred RPM at full speed. Yours seem to be...
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pe3hmp
Sep 9, 2008 6:05 pm
My English is not that great so some of the words are unclear to me. But I used the mountings of the motor, the pulley that was on the motor could be removed...
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kd006
Sep 9, 2008 5:23 pm
Mark, Duhh (or whatever Homer says) I was still on the first cup of coffee and not thinking it would still be pushing the full voltage at a slower pulse rate. ...
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pe3hmp
Sep 9, 2008 5:14 pm
If the output is phase cut then I would suggest a motor that runs on 130Vcd because the top is still 130V it is just cut in smaler sections, so instead of...
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kd006
Sep 9, 2008 4:54 pm
... Bertho, Pretty sure that is what the Surplus Center controller uses, it takes a 10K pot for control so one "should" be able to connect from the low side of...
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green_stuck
Sep 9, 2008 3:18 pm
Thanks for all the feedback. Part of my confusion about this particular motor is the description that it's a Servo motor. How does that make it different from...
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Shad
ogberi768
Sep 9, 2008 12:27 pm
The controller probably does pulse width modulation. It supplies full voltage and current to the motor at a reduced duty cycle to control the speed. This...
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Bertho Boman
bertho_boman
Sep 9, 2008 10:29 am
I have been thinking of switching to a DC motor too. What I really want is a controller that will accept a DC input, 0-5V or 0-10V. That way I can control...
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pe3hmp
Sep 9, 2008 9:04 am
It meight be possibel to use a second potentiometer in series with the one you use to set the speed(it probebly controls the voltage), the second one sets the...
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Dean Williams
deanofid
Sep 9, 2008 6:26 am
I use the controller you link to with this motor: http://tinyurl.com/DC-Motor They seem to be a perfect match for the Taig. It's nice to be able to run your...
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Pierre Coueffin
darkblood_
Sep 9, 2008 6:19 am
You could probably put a transformer on the output of the controller, before the motor to step the range down. You would need to find something with about a...
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pe3hmp
Sep 9, 2008 6:05 am
I see that the controller is max130V dc output and the motor only can handel 90V dc max, I don't know if you can prevent the controller from going higher than...
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Michael Fagan
woodworker_88
Sep 9, 2008 4:14 am
A standard antibacklash nut has two nuts threaded onto the same leadscrew, connected with either (usually) three screws or, even better, a large diameter...
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Pierre Coueffin
darkblood_
Sep 9, 2008 3:50 am
I think that the adjustment you are describing is similar to what an anti-backlash nut does. The AB nut has much smaller surfaces to align and machine though,...
