sagreen,
Not to rain on your parade, but this pendant has those functions as well as some nice additional features:
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Type: Posts; User: MichaelHenry
sagreen,
Not to rain on your parade, but this pendant has those functions as well as some nice additional features:
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Folks on the Tormach Facebook groups seem to like inexpensive sumps for use as coolant pumps.
If you are at all doubtful, put the used mill through it's paces with some fairly tough material, like 4140 or SS, and using your own (known good) cutters.
I bought a Clausing lathe years ago and...
I use SC 15 sporadically and just had a problem with my tool library getting corrupted and Jacob responded within 12 hours to the tech support request. His solution worked fine for me. I've not...
The entire thread is over 10 years old so you may not a response.
There's a few Facebook groups for Tormach owners, if you can stomach FB policies.
For the past few years I've toyed with the idea of using my S1 steppers on an old KO Lee S714 surface grinder. Cranking the table manually in X gets old really fast.
@starvinmarvin - thanks for the link to the MMC fittings. I was looking for adapters that have a female SAE on one end and NPT on the other. Near as I can tell, MMC doesn't offer any female SAE...
Tormach supplies 1/8" neoprene cord with the 8x8 vacuum chuck (their larger vacuum fixture plate apparently uses a much larger size). I ordered this 1/8" neoprene cord from McMaster:
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Thanks for the replies. For $279, I decided that the Tormach chuck was worth the cost and ordered one as there isn't time to make my own. It should be here tomorrow.
I also ordered a Robinair...
If anybody here has used the Tormach vacuum chuck I'd like to get some feedback on it. It has an 8x8" footprint and is designed to be held in a 5" or 6" vise between the jaws in the outside...
I've been using the MadeWithCNC pendant for a while now ever since my Tormach Shuttle stopped responding consistently to axis selection with the result that I ran my Haimer at speed into the work...
Was that the InTurn by Steve Simpson? I don't think that he is actively marketing that any more. I have most of the parts for one but never got around to installing or testing it.
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I winder if replacing those green terminals with a quality brand, like Phoenix, would help?
Shars sells an ER11 collet tool holder with either 1/2-in or 5/8-in straight shanks - maybe bush one of those up to 3/4" with a TTS collar?
Is Ray's tool changer still in the market? Seems like he disappeared from CNCZone a few years ago so maybe he moved on to other endeavors.
FWIW, I have one of these pendants for my PathPilot PCNC 1100 mill and SBL lathe and it works fine with both. No special drivers or updates needed so long as you are running a recent version of...
Speaking of the post editor, it looks like Sprut released some tutorials on that:
https://sprutcam.com/courses/net-postprocessing/lessons/overview/
For those interested in the subject, Sprut just announced some tutorials for editing posts:
https://sprutcam.com/courses/net-postprocessing/lessons/overview/
I've been using it since 2007 or thereabouts and it is starting to make sense for me now. Either they've made a lot of improvements or I've just learned to deal with the idiosyncrasies of the...
I'd wondered if that's what you'd meant.
The folks that make the Pocket NC 5-axis tabletop mill are developing a larger brother with more professional features, including a tool changer, It may be available some time next year and will be...
I use Alibre CAD for paid work and the free version of Onshape for hobby work. I use SprutCAM for, uh, CAM but have a paid version of F360 which I don't like to use but may need for 5-axis work if I...
MD - have you switched from SprutCAM to F360?
I ordered one for my mill and it should be shipping in a day or two. The price seems reasonable. I do a lot of prototypes and one-offs so would really like a "Stop" button in my hand when running a...
To my mind FB groups have an almost worthless search function, compared to dedicated forums like this one. As a result, you see the same basic questions over and over - users never seem to search...
Chris Meyers is just bringing this hand-held console to market so you might want to check with him and see if he is interested in implementing a version with a reset button. I'm curious, though, why...
Steve Simpson was making an add-on 4th axis (the InTurn) for a while and an early prototype trunnion for that which provided for 5-axis milling. He seems to have deleted any reference to the product...
I'd guess that the stand is 250 lbs, making the mill itself around 850 lbs. Just a guess, though. I had the weights of the major components written down at one time but can't find that now.
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The assembled original PCNC 1100 needs around 90+" of vertical clearance to operate, taking into account the extreme movement of the head in the Z-axis. I ended up locating mine with the head...