[snippage] ... Ballendo: I tried to contact you via sending E-mail via the Yahoo web site. Did that message make it through? You seemed pretty interested in...
Hi Andrew, If you look at their How To area (http://www.alumilite.com/howto.cfm), they do describe in different articles how to use a filler and vacuum...
Dave & others... Thanks for the info. Do both of these work with XP? I've got an old system that was designed for DOS, and I managed to get it to work with...
Hi Cliff, ... Further to what Peter wrote, it has to be real DOS, not a DOS window. Even the new machines will run DOS. If you don't want to make your machine...
Dave, Thanks for the info. I know how to dual boot and floppy boot etc., but I just don't want to mess with DOS. It basically renders a pc useless to me until...
... It has been my experience with TurboCNC 3 and 4 that I can run Windoze 98 second edition. I put everything on the machine, do any windoze stuff I need to...
Hi folks. My goal is to us my 2000cnc mill as a vertical lathe. I need a radius put on the end of several parts made on the manual lathe. The problem I'm...
Hi Eric, When you select lathe as an NC object, you get a "translation" from the XY plane you draw in to the ZX plane of the lathe. You should see (or put in)...
From: "Eric" <buckeyevs@...> ... You're almost there, Eric. You need to put the statement "G18" before the above statement. Gcode can do straight lines...
Ok, great step forward. I thought I remembered seeing a G command like that on the print out I used to have. I could not find it or one like it on-line....
From: "Eric" <buckeyevs@...> ... You're welcome, Eric. Actually, it tells about G17-G19 in the G02 section of the TCNC 4.01 PDF manual. ... The above...
From: "Eric" <buckeyevs@...> ... I'm sorry, I overlooked this line from your original email. Vector is generating the gcode for you. On a lathe, X is...
... section of the TCNC 4.01 PDF manual. ... of the arc should be X-1.2967 Z-.3925 ... drawing but writing the gcode by hand, remember that I and J are the ...
... I've uploaded "arc.gif" to the FILES section of this group with my understanding of the geometry per your given information. (it's the CAD drawing I used...
... [snip] ... Now my head is spinning. The diagram I drew (and the way I've been thinking!) is in considering the mill to be a lathe with the spindle ...
This has been a brain-stretcher! ... I just got back up from some monkey-pounding on my mill computer, and figured it out. On a mill, all moves are spindle...
Hi Randy, Thanks for working through the problem! My head was spinning many messages ago! I think I'll stick to doing turning operations on the lathe! Alan...
From: "Alan Marconett" <KM6VV@...> ... So was mine, but I have a tendency towards this condition known as "stubbornness." :-) ... So will I. Now that I...
Hi Randy, That's definitely an interesting way to do it! On another thread (started on CCED), I'm trying to find a speed control for my new DeWalt DW670 trim...
And thank you Randy for sharing this exercise with us. I was also working on Eric's problem in parallel, but since you were always a jump ahead, I didn't butt...
... radius ... problem ... can't ... generates ... get an ... is ... cut ... axis. ... Can ... Eric 3D arcs must be defined by the normal axes in which the...
It is working as I want it to. I only have to alter the roughing so the finish pass removes all ridges. Darn backlash problem I think. Thank you all very...
Greetings everyone, This is my first post. I'm a total newbie, still learning the difference between a mill and lathe. Over the next 6 months I am going to...
Chris, if there are any tech schools or colleges offering machine technology programs in your area, DO check them out. This is a golden opportunity to learn...
Hi Chris. I have both the cnc mill and the 17 inch lathe(not cnc) I love them both and as long as you do not try to force them to do work for which they were...
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