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Yesterday,
07:29 PM
legendboy
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plates are 14" long
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Yesterday,
06:34 PM
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I have a question about holding said plates. Here is a picture using back jaw in my vice. For something like this is holding a sheared edge ok? ...
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05-16-2013,
12:26 PM
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Air compressor "upgrade"
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I read up on this pump, it says min rpm 550 max 900. I'll measure the pulleys and figure out what its setup for.
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05-15-2013,
11:30 PM
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Air compressor "upgrade"
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I usually make good kijiji purchases but i made a mistake about a month ago. Backstory i bought my current compressor at a garage sale. i bought...
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05-14-2013,
12:58 PM
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Tool Gloat: Lathe and tooling haul plus question on taper attachment
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That's a pretty sweet score with all that tooling!
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05-13-2013,
03:00 PM
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I'll post some more videos soon. I do have 2, 3/8" alum plates to cut for someone. Hoping to do them this week
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05-13-2013,
02:58 PM
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I was thinking of asking Tero for a list of commands for the servo drives. There is a command line where his language can do tons more then what is...
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05-13-2013,
02:53 PM
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Hey Macona I think the issue is me not being able to explain this properly. Basically what i found is i can get the servo motor to be accurate...
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05-13-2013,
02:40 PM
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Hey Erik I have x and y axis tuned to 4 counts following error @ 250rps^2. As far as I can measure they are round!
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05-11-2013,
10:19 PM
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another pic z axis still needs the smoothness tune. this is still at 3900 rpm which is way too low. cutter was gummed up
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05-11-2013,
09:58 PM
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i am pretty excited :cool:
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05-11-2013,
09:42 PM
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sorry for my poor video skills, should have left the camera where it was still lots of little things to do including vfd tuning
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05-11-2013,
09:16 PM
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Well it turns out the fix for my servo drive is the modified firmware. GD drives are very sensitive. Sparks from brush dc motors give false OC...
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05-10-2013,
11:28 PM
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Attaching 4-Jaw Chuck to Microlux 7x16 Lathe
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Third Hand
sounds like you should buy a camlock 4 jaw
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05-10-2013,
06:33 PM
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What would cause these nasty TIG (non)welds?
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Home Shop Welding
balling of tungsten is classic of ac tig. something must be wrong with the machine?
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05-09-2013,
07:59 PM
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dumore centra point cutter sharpener
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post some picture
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05-09-2013,
07:44 PM
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Hi all: Duck dynasty:
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I agree but my one exception are the shows about gold mining
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05-04-2013,
12:00 AM
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here is my ghetto battery picture I recently bought a ps and scope. it was cool feeling the relationship between current and motor tq
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05-03-2013,
09:09 PM
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I connected the servo to my cars battery, getting 509 rpm max with no load. Can't stop it with my hand. I am using 16ga wire, not sure if that...
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05-02-2013,
09:06 PM
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Servo drive finally came in. He sent it Helsinki donkey post. I would have paid for ups but never got the choice So I do have a problem. New drive...
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05-02-2013,
06:54 PM
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A Proud Father!
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Thats awesome! I have 2 girls and think about stuff like this all the time
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05-02-2013,
12:14 AM
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I should add that the audio I hear isn't anything like my current camera pickups up
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04-30-2013,
04:37 PM
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You asked for a pic
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i have found a couple of these over the years, one i sold to a friend the other one i sold on ebay for over $800. It had power feed and tons of...
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04-28-2013,
10:00 PM
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Yea they are noisy I replaced a few bearing blocks as they were very worn, all blocks and nuts were completely disassembled, cleaned,...
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04-28-2013,
09:50 PM
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My favourite thing about this cnc machine is that it actually works! lol I should add it is an American Way AW-100 gang lathe 1997 model. Lots of...
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04-28-2013,
09:08 PM
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Ah ok I got it I have another cf card and the disk image as backup
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04-28-2013,
06:20 PM
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Hopefully it's okay. I got the idea from someone with the same machines, his have been running for years. I did buy "industrial" cf cards. The os...
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04-28-2013,
01:15 AM
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thats good advice, there was lots of crap inside the connector the old liquid tight conduit is stiff and cracking/leaking the repair was...
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04-27-2013,
12:59 AM
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Big benifit since buying this machine has been the friendship i have established with Richard Nix. He purchasted American Way when the owner...
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04-27-2013,
12:43 AM
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first thing i did was get the original hd backed up and booting of compact flash
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