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[00:00:49] <XXCoder1> I use haas cncs at work. man they make big vareity of cncs
[00:01:56] <CaptHindsight> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Haas-VF-CNC-Vertical-Machining-Center-Mill-Milling-Machine-Sliding-doors-/111240211777 for $350 you can pretend to have one
[00:03:00] <CaptHindsight> http://www.ebay.com/itm/PRATT-WHITNEY-BEAVER-V5-CNC-VERTICAL-MACHINING-CENTER-26541-/370712909484 US $4,950.00 Ohio
[00:03:27] <XXCoder1> lol
[00:03:27] <XXCoder1> looks like earlier version doors than one I use at work
[00:04:08] <XXCoder1> black and some gray machine
[00:04:12] <CaptHindsight> http://www.ebay.com/itm/1980s-MATSUURA-500-W-YASNAC-MX-2-CONTROL-GOOD-CONDITION-UPGRADED-LCD-DISPLAY-/201041856123 $4,200.00 or best, Maryland
[00:04:40] <XXCoder1> wow thats weird machine
[00:04:40] <XXCoder1> vertical mill?>
[00:05:09] <CaptHindsight> yeah
[00:05:49] <XXCoder1> found machine I use at company page
[00:05:49] <XXCoder1> http://www.haascnc.com/mt_spec1.asp?id=GR-510&webID=GANTRY_VMC
[00:05:49] <XXCoder1> I call it that annoying machine
[00:06:30] <XXCoder1> though its only 6 months old apparently there is slight design changes
[00:07:16] <XXCoder1> and um the work spot is covered. one I use isnt. it sprays swarf all over :P I hate sweeping up after it lol
[00:08:12] <CaptHindsight> the prices are dropping
[00:08:49] <CaptHindsight> they must make that in china and assemble it here
[00:08:57] <XXCoder1> odd thing it dont have vaccum clamp surface I use has
[00:08:57] <XXCoder1> probably why they removed covers off.
[00:09:11] <XXCoder1> too high
[00:09:44] <XXCoder1> one I use is definitely gr-510 but no gantry cover and has vaccum grip surface
[00:09:44] <XXCoder1> vaccum system both are awesome and sucks
[00:12:14] <XXCoder1> sad thing is that they has other cnc router machine thats quite large but died before I started training work there
[00:12:14] <XXCoder1> its 10 years old
[00:12:39] <XXCoder1> dunno if software or hardware issue but guessing software
[00:52:12] <CaptHindsight> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cincinnati-Sabre-500-CNC-Vertical-Machining-Center-10-000-RPM-Spindle-CT-40-1996-/251379152485
[00:52:30] <CaptHindsight> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kitamura-Mycenter-3-CNC-Vertical-Machining-Center-Fanuc-11M-Control-CT40-1987-/251291578418
[00:52:44] <CaptHindsight> http://www.ebay.com/itm/CINCINNATI-SABRE-750-VERTICAL-MACHINING-CENTER-ONE-WITH-4TH-AXIS-/221467896469
[00:54:28] <CaptHindsight> TWO AVAILABLE. ONE WITH 4TH AXIS. PRICED THE SAME. ^^
[00:55:13] <Connor> Man, those machines depreciate like hell..
[00:55:24] <zeeshan|3> lol
[00:55:25] <zeeshan|3> yea
[00:55:30] <ssi> shit
[00:55:33] <ssi> maybe I should buy that last one
[00:55:36] <Connor> almost as bad as cars.
[00:55:37] <ssi> I could go pick it up
[00:55:39] <zeeshan|3> connor what have you been upto
[00:55:51] <Connor> working.
[00:55:58] <Connor> trying to stay sane.
[00:56:00] <XXCoder1> thing is, cars is more portable
[00:56:08] <XXCoder1> assuming functional.
[00:56:18] <zeeshan|3> cars also have a bigger market
[00:56:35] <XXCoder1> this is pretty close to older machine I also use at work http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cincinnati-Sabre-500-CNC-Vertical-Machining-Center-10-000-RPM-Spindle-CT-40-1996-/251379152485
[00:56:41] <zeeshan|3> home shop machinists are a rare breed :p
[00:56:45] <XXCoder1> looks to be older than one I use by few years
[00:56:59] <XXCoder1> it dont look like haas though
[00:57:19] <ssi> zeeshan|3: yeah because they're all delusional
[00:57:31] <CaptHindsight> tjtr33 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Charmilles-Robo-Form-2000-sinker-EDM-machine-for-parts-RoboForm-2000-parts-/201061560377
[00:57:31] <Connor> Pete's 500 is nice.. he needs to get the tool changer working.
[00:57:42] <zeeshan|3> ssi why do you say that
[00:57:52] <XXCoder1> some companies probably buy used
[00:57:58] <XXCoder1> be heck of a lot cheaper
[00:58:06] <ssi> zeeshan|3: cause I've known me a long time, and I've known a lot of the guys in here quite a while
[00:58:11] <ssi> zeeshan|3: and empirical evidence suggests we're all nuts
[00:58:12] <zeeshan|3> XXCoder1: depends on the company
[00:58:32] <XXCoder1> well I know I'm nuttier than nut and bolt company
[00:58:35] <zeeshan|3> most companies want a headache free machine :P
[00:58:39] <zeeshan|3> ssi that's true haha
[00:59:05] <XXCoder1> zee yeah but then if has same but broken and need parts machine, its cheaper to get other one to fix it than buy new one
[01:01:16] <CaptHindsight> $100K for new machine that generates $30-50K in profit per year isn't bad, after 5-10 years it's too old and slow to keep
[01:03:32] <zeeshan|3> yea
[01:04:14] <CaptHindsight> if you actually have the jobs to run
[01:04:28] <ssi> that's the trick
[01:04:32] <ssi> that's the part that's too much like work
[01:05:31] <CaptHindsight> makin widgets
[01:07:10] <CaptHindsight> there aren't that many machine shops around here that just take in jobs from outside...
[01:07:31] <ssi> for me, every time I have someone that wants to pay me to run a machine, that machine breaks :(
[01:07:45] <CaptHindsight> it's mostly manufacturer's of some product with an in-house shop
[01:08:22] <XXCoder1> airplane companies outsource a LOT
[01:08:28] <XXCoder1> I work for company that makes parts for em
[01:08:42] <XXCoder1> after all single plane has MANY MANY different parts
[01:09:14] <CaptHindsight> last years fest was at Stuarts shop, he is near a few aircraft co's
[01:09:27] <ssi> wichita, ya?
[01:09:31] <CaptHindsight> yeah
[01:09:32] <ssi> it's full up with aircraft mfgs
[01:09:47] <zeeshan|3> its also a way to distribute the liability :D
[01:09:58] <XXCoder1> heh I have had hand in many weird alum parts for airplanes
[01:10:04] <XXCoder1> I has no idea what they are used for
[01:10:43] <ssi> sweet, can jog in world mode now
[01:10:49] <ssi> I'm getting closer! :D
[01:10:54] <CaptHindsight> he had a stack of landing gear doors that would be destroyed doing belly landings
[01:11:13] <XXCoder1> oh and one hard foam part. still no idea what for either lol
[01:11:27] <CaptHindsight> i guess part of the certification is actually doing a belly landing
[01:11:36] <XXCoder1> I asked my boss if it was test part, and she said nah its actual part. I made 6 of those
[01:13:09] <CaptHindsight> transportation, aerospace and military seem to make up most of the machine work
[01:13:29] <XXCoder1> interesting eh
[01:14:10] <CaptHindsight> machine sales are down since they stopped the tax break last Jan
[01:16:08] <ssi> hm gantrykins is crazy
[01:17:34] <XXCoder1> it sure dont look like it at my work lol
[01:17:45] <tjtr33> CaptHindsight, hey thx, i was just on ebay and missed that one.
[01:17:59] <XXCoder1> but then that old cnc router being down means dept I work at is constantly backlogged.
[01:18:00] <CaptHindsight> tjtr33: are those decent?
[01:18:58] <XXCoder1> know what will never ever stop or slow down? clamps. man when I was there I must have packed away tens of thousands of those.
[01:19:42] <tjtr33> Charmilles is good.but you wont get any schemas outta George Fisher ( owns AGie-Charmilles )
[01:20:02] <ssi> so it appears that in world mode it doesn't respect any of the joint velocity, accel, softlimits, etc
[01:20:22] <tjtr33> CaptHindsight, Charmilles is workhorse,AGie is precision
[01:21:36] <CaptHindsight> tjtr33: do you fix those or prefer other brands with manuals/schematics etc
[01:22:32] <tjtr33> for me its Heidenhain CNC EDM's, ( FineTech STrathClyde, EDMS, etc)
[01:23:17] <tjtr33> not Charmilles or even AGies ( my expertise in AGie EDM is from 80's to 90's ;)
[01:23:21] <CaptHindsight> I seem to come across Charmilles that need repair very often
[01:23:41] <tjtr33> yeah the control is killer,no parts, no help
[01:24:52] <tjtr33> i can get new ps & controls, not from Charmilles tho. full cnc edm has a few options for retrofits
[01:25:07] <tjtr33> i can get youinfo if interested
[01:25:20] <CaptHindsight> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mitsubishi-DWC-90C-Wire-EDM-Machine-Electrical-Discharge-/141302785857
[01:25:45] <tjtr33> now a Mits is good and evenlocal service org for you
[01:25:53] <CaptHindsight> I'll eventually get one, too busy now to tinker with one
[01:26:17] <ssi> so apparently gantrykins is actually unusably broken
[01:26:18] <tjtr33> but that^^^ is wedm, still local svc, butnot sink edm like the Charmilles
[01:26:20] <ssi> that's really unfortunate
[01:27:06] <CaptHindsight> tjtr33: I won't need one for 6-12 months then need it for a bunch of things
[01:28:00] <tjtr33> cool i got a 32 posn100amp 4 axis i'mrebuildingnow wink wink
[01:28:00] <ssi> ugh two steps forward, ten steps back :(
[01:29:43] <tjtr33> CaptHindsight, room to add a 5th axis in the TNC406 control too, can tilt the Z axis ( tilts g17 plane ,great for side slide mold work )
[01:29:44] <CaptHindsight> tjtr33: were you up north today (afternoon)?
[01:30:02] <tjtr33> notme, rained enuf here tofload uponmy hill
[01:30:49] <CaptHindsight> it was raining sideways, rain was coming in under the door
[01:31:20] <CaptHindsight> trees down
[01:31:37] <tjtr33> imagine HAL files translatinginto FPGA code, all running in parallel http://www.valentfx.com/skeleton/?board=logibone
[01:31:55] <tjtr33> ^^^ LogiBone FPGA for BBB
[01:33:42] <tjtr33> urf! 1am again. bye all
[01:36:23] <zeeshan|3> =D
[01:36:30] <ssi> I have a handful of fpga capes for bbb
[01:36:49] <ssi> I have a standing goal to build a 5i25 equivalent as a bbb cape
[01:37:16] <ssi> I think bbb running linuxcnc using mesa gear for offloading tasks like stepgen and encoder counting would be superb
[01:41:28] <ssi> I guess I need to figure out how to switch to JA3 branch
[01:41:41] <ssi> which considering that I'm using a stock apt managed system right now, may or may not be a pain
[01:46:37] <ssi> I wish the linuxcnc codebase wasn't such a disjoint mess
[01:46:39] <ssi> :(
[01:48:11] <CaptHindsight> http://valentfx.com/logi-pi/ + banana Pi http://www.bananapi.org/
[01:49:37] <ssi> hm that's the same fpga as on the 5i25, that might be close
[01:49:45] <ssi> question is whether there's enough IO bandwidth
[01:49:52] <CaptHindsight> sure
[01:50:07] <ssi> yeah? via which bus?
[01:50:43] <CaptHindsight> 32 FPGA IO through PMOD and Arduino headers
[01:50:50] <ssi> no, on the other side
[01:50:53] <ssi> to the SOC
[01:51:15] <CaptHindsight> not sure on the Logi Pi but the SPI bus on the A10/20 is 100MHz
[01:52:10] <CaptHindsight> With the current 32Mhz clk and direct communication to the FPGA the user can expect to get 4 MB/S throughput between the Raspberry Pi and the FPGA.
[01:52:18] <CaptHindsight> more than enough
[01:52:45] <CaptHindsight> SPI to Wishbone Interface Bandwidth When using the LOGI wishbone interface architecture the there is 16 bits of communication overhead. This leads to the a maximum theoretical throughput of 3.8MB/S. In practice we have consitently gotten above 3 MB/S.
[01:53:15] <ssi> pcw threw out some figures for minimum bandwith from hostmot driver to the fpga, but I can't recall what the numbers were
[01:53:15] <ssi> the mesa cards use PCI or PCIe, so there's plenty of bandwidth, but this project would need to meet some minimum bandwith figure in order to work well
[01:53:16] <ssi> mhaberler! do you know anything about whether ja3 got merged into 2.6?
[01:53:16] <ssi> I'm having a hard time sussing that out from list posts
[01:53:21] <Loetmichel> mornin'. Just got a phonecall. I'm uncle again. for the fifth time ;-)
[01:53:28] <ssi> Loetmichel: congrats :)
[01:53:35] <Jymmm> Loetmichel: Give him/her a TV
[01:54:02] <ssi> CaptHindsight: yeah that may or may not be enough; I can't recall what number pcw gave
[01:54:12] <ssi> but at the time I remember thinking that a single 100MHz spi wasn't going to be enough
[01:54:17] <CaptHindsight> plus the A10/20 has a GPU to support a HD display
[01:54:23] <CaptHindsight> ssi: yes it is
[01:54:24] <ssi> that it might need to be dual channel SPI or maybe GPMC
[01:54:29] <mhaberler> ssi: no, sorry - I focus on machinekit
[01:54:34] <ssi> CaptHindsight: you're basing that on what?
[01:54:40] <ssi> mhaberler: np, thanks
[01:55:00] <CaptHindsight> EPP to FPGA is slower than that
[01:55:25] <CaptHindsight> we talked about this last year
[01:55:37] <CaptHindsight> ssi: basing what on what?
[01:56:32] <CaptHindsight> pcw made a FPGA board for the A20 cubie2 board
[01:57:22] <CaptHindsight> I have to finish the kernel and Linuxcnc for it
[01:57:36] <ssi> well then a 2 port 50 pin mesa style cape should be feasible, but the 2x superport I believe has more io bandwidth than a 7i43
[01:58:34] <ssi> ugh I can find tons of posts about how we're totally gonna merge ja3 soon maybe probably
[01:58:37] <ssi> but none about actually doing it
[01:58:44] <CaptHindsight> I'm going to call my IO board a Pantsuit, cape is too comic book/action hero :)
[01:59:10] <ssi> hurry up and finish it
[01:59:58] <ssi> yes, we did talk about this last year... you're convinced that we need to use a second rate chinese SOC because you want opengl freakin previews
[02:00:06] <ssi> personally I'd be happy to run a less intensive UI
[02:00:17] <ssi> or a remote UI if that stuff would get done
[02:00:21] * ssi looks at mhaberler :D
[02:00:22] <CaptHindsight> then the BBB is a good fit
[02:00:28] <XXCoder1> pantsuit lol
[02:01:18] <ssi> the bbb is nice hardware, it's ubiquitous, available, and cheap
[02:01:18] <ssi> plus the soc is actually open and well documented, unlike the pi
[02:01:30] <ssi> and it's made and supported by a company that I know has good communication and I've got some personal connections into
[02:01:39] <CaptHindsight> never liked broadcom
[02:02:20] <CaptHindsight> I need a board that can run a display without the need for a 2nd PC
[02:02:55] <CaptHindsight> wish the BBB could do that
[02:03:02] <ssi> why can't it
[02:03:10] <ssi> you give up a ton of IO using the framer, but it's there
[02:03:28] <CaptHindsight> to slow from what I've seen, unless somebody has it working
[02:03:58] <ssi> again, opengl preview is a luxury :P
[02:05:34] <CaptHindsight> and for $20 less than the BBB
[02:06:02] <ssi> fine, forget I brought it up
[02:07:11] <CaptHindsight> but TI has to make their profit
[02:07:55] <ssi> yeah, evil greedy corporations with their insane margins on the FORTY FIVE DOLLAR COMPUTER
[02:08:24] <CaptHindsight> it's a dog eat dog world...
[02:08:33] <ssi> so go eat some dogs
[02:08:52] <ssi> quit armchair engineering and make something
[02:08:55] <CaptHindsight> whats the ja3?
[02:09:26] <ssi> it's a branch of the linuxcnc codebase which, according to legend, has actual working gantry code
[02:09:40] <ssi> cause gantrykins is all kinds of fucked up
[02:11:31] <CaptHindsight> LOGi-Pi $89.00, LOGi-Bone $89.00
[02:11:57] <ssi> what I want to build would be cheaper than that likely
[02:12:31] <ssi> probably under $50 in small qtf
[02:13:05] <Jymmm> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBeVMGOgWvY
[02:13:05] <CaptHindsight> I was going to float the design around China hoping it would get copied
[02:13:28] <CaptHindsight> end up low cost and available everywhere
[02:23:56] <CaptHindsight> BBB as a OEM COM version coming out soon
[02:24:33] <CaptHindsight> http://linuxgizmos.com/beaglebone-sbc-goes-oem-com-version-coming/
[02:25:29] <CaptHindsight> http://linuxgizmos.com/fast-boot-open-spec-com-includes-fpga/ we just need something like this for $50
[02:32:49] <Jymmm> CaptHindsight: HA! $176@100/units http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-4740#
[02:33:17] <XXCoder1> 176 bucks each unit if 100 unit?
[02:33:25] <Jymmm> $222/1 unit
[02:33:29] <CaptHindsight> yeah, they are always priced ~$200 from that supplier
[02:33:41] <CaptHindsight> even at 1K the price isn't much better
[02:34:45] <CaptHindsight> banana pi is down to $25
[02:35:01] <XXCoder1> banana pi? I just know raspberry ne
[02:35:26] <CaptHindsight> R Pi form factor with Allwinner A20
[02:36:06] <CaptHindsight> http://www.bananapi.org/
[02:36:51] <XXCoder1> comeitior to raspberry or different offering from same company?
[02:37:17] <CaptHindsight> sorry $29
[02:37:52] <CaptHindsight> different supplier, faster dual core ARM soc
[02:38:02] <XXCoder1> interesting, ok
[02:38:34] <CaptHindsight> http://www.bananapi.org/p/product.html
[02:39:27] <XXCoder1> it has ir recivier lol
[02:39:30] <CaptHindsight> the A10/20 13's are in most of the low cost android tablets
[02:39:47] <XXCoder1> too bad it dobt have ir output
[02:40:13] <CaptHindsight> via usb dongle :)
[02:40:22] <XXCoder1> or just ir lef
[02:40:25] <XXCoder1> led
[02:40:36] <XXCoder1> its really late now for so lots typos. :P
[02:44:26] <XXCoder1> night
[02:44:33] <CaptHindsight> I have no excuse for mine
[02:50:29] <ssi> cnc@plasma:~/linuxcnc-dev$ linuxcnc
[02:50:29] <ssi> LINUXCNC - 2.6.0~pre joints_axes
[02:50:32] <ssi> well, that's something
[02:56:57] <ssi> hm... missing thcud component in the in-place version I built
[02:57:13] <ssi> did a comp --install thcud.comp with the environment set, and it's still failing
[02:57:16] <ssi> not sure how to get past that
[02:58:30] <Deejay> moin
[03:32:39] <ssi> well, I'm closer
[03:32:55] <ssi> ja4 gentrivkins is built and running, configs have been modified towork with it
[03:33:16] <ssi> joints home properly, but the two gantry joints aren't slaved together
[03:52:00] <RyanS> Anyone noticed a difference between El cheapo $20 ISO turning toolholder for manual lathes <1kw vs $100 SECO, Kennametal, etc
[03:52:24] <Jymmm> $80
[03:52:35] <RyanS> Not in Australia
[03:53:00] <RyanS> try $120
[03:53:30] <RyanS> Not talking about the inserts, I would go brand-name for them
[03:54:18] <ssi> I've bought some expensive ones and lots of cheap shars ones, and honestly the shars holders are fine
[03:54:22] <ssi> but yes I prefer the brand name inserts
[04:00:15] <RyanS> What do you suppose the difference is, better tool steel?
[04:00:56] <ssi> yeah, there might be a slight rigidity difference, but the holder's not doing that much work
[04:05:56] <RyanS> do I understand correctly, that screw lock (which don't seem to be available in negative rake), lever lock, double clamp get progressively larger, more rigid and more designed for larger machines?
[04:06:21] <ssi> you're getting beyond me there :)
[04:09:02] <RyanS> I'm looking at too many industrial catalogues :)
[04:11:11] <archivist> posh tool is over the top on a crap machine
[04:11:19] <ssi> agreed
[04:11:53] <ssi> no sense buying a $120 rigid toolholder when the lathebed flexes away :D
[04:12:49] <RyanS> Is that why SCLCR seems to be pretty much the only thing available at hobbyist places?
[04:14:24] <archivist> a lot of hobbyists look at the price and have little clue about rigidity and making stuff accurately to dimension
[04:15:01] <Jymmm> archivist: Aren't those CNC glue guns?
[04:15:33] <archivist> glue guns are an order of magnitude worse
[04:16:06] <archivist> I am getting at a portion of "model engineers"
[04:17:55] <RyanS> I saying they don't have anything else available at hobbyists stores... ie http://www.arceurotrade.co.uk/Catalogue/Cutting-Tools/Indexable-Turning-Tools
[04:18:46] <archivist> because they supply at hobby prices
[04:20:47] <RyanS> yeah, ok , but is SCLCR are going to cover most jobs on a crappy manual lathe?
[04:20:48] <ssi> ok ok ok... how the heck do I get the slaving to work in gentrivkins
[04:20:50] <ssi> I'm soooo close
[04:21:18] <archivist> the owner of arceurotrade knows his market, he drops the better stuff when it does not sell due to price
[04:21:20] <ssi> RyanS: yes it'll be fine
[04:22:12] <archivist> ssi I though I saw something on the lists or docs describing it
[04:22:31] <ssi> archivist: there's little bits of info scattered around but I haven't put all the pieces together yet
[04:22:45] <ssi> I'm VERY close
[04:23:00] <ssi> configs work and I can run and home all joints
[04:23:13] <ssi> but when I jog Y, only joint 1 moves, joint 3 does not
[04:23:51] <archivist> I thought there was a thing to do when the second one homed to slave them
[04:24:03] <ssi> yeah this is where I'm missing something
[04:24:51] <ssi> I assumed that the config string (XYZY) tells it how to map axis to joints, and so when I jog Y, it knows to command motion on both joints
[04:25:00] <RyanS> Which supplier do you guys usually buy inserts from?
[04:25:07] <ssi> gentrivkins doesn't have joint mode vs world mode like gantrykins does
[04:25:23] <archivist> I get sandvik inserts of ebay
[04:25:29] <ssi> I mostly buy inserts off ebay too
[04:25:34] <ssi> I bought a pile of them from the guy that sold me my HNC
[04:25:42] <ssi> they're far too expensive to buy retail :)
[04:27:09] <archivist> my parting tool is a modded sandvik and once I found the real insert number off the modders web site..... I pay a lot less
[04:28:07] <archivist> http://www.greenwood-tools.co.uk/shopscr23.html
[04:29:14] <archivist> oops the real number is http://www.greenwood-tools.co.uk/ishop/728/shopscr39.html
[04:29:24] <RyanS> I have been looking at that, how do you mount it?
[04:30:13] <archivist> it has a side lump that fits in a standard tool post
[04:30:36] <ssi> http://linuxcnc.org/dapper/emc2/emc2/index.php/italian/forum/49-basic-configuration/27724-homing-a-dual-motor-for-one-axis-gantry-machine?start=10
[04:30:41] <ssi> this guy's describing the same problem I have
[04:30:46] <RyanS> I was looking at mounting a parting tool upside down on cross slide
[04:31:25] <archivist> upside down is common on capstans and production lathes
[04:32:51] <RyanS> I know the inserts for aluminium are very sharp positive rake, highly polished coating. Will the inserts designed for stainless be fine for carbon steel?
[04:33:06] <ssi> RyanS: I feel like you're wildly overthinking this :)
[04:33:18] <ssi> if you're not running a production lathe, most of this stuff doesn't matter
[04:33:31] <ssi> chances are your feeds and speeds are going to be far less optimal than your insert geometry and coatings
[04:34:04] <RyanS> Aluminium cuts very different to stainless, even on my crappy lathe...
[04:34:48] <RyanS> I daresay the tip would crack of the aluminium inserts if used on stainless... idk
[04:34:56] <ssi> I agree
[04:35:10] <ssi> but general purpose inserts will cut aluminum Just Fine
[04:35:16] <ssi> as well as stainless and mild steel
[04:35:55] <ssi> and the advantages of 0 degree inserts are that you can flip them over!
[04:37:42] <archivist> look at the sandvik insert catalog and they show best use material and good enough for each tip
[04:38:17] <RyanS> small radius for better finish? whaaat, has never worked like that with high-speed steel, a small radius has given me a terrible finish
[04:38:56] <archivist> adjust feeds and speed too
[04:40:05] <RyanS> http://www.greenwood-tools.co.uk/ishop/728/shopscr20.html interesting
[04:41:55] <archivist> greenwood is a husband and wife operation
[04:43:05] <RyanS> Does that have consequences? :p
[04:43:13] <archivist> no
[04:43:14] <RyanS> They are awfully expensive
[04:43:26] <archivist> they are sandvik tools
[04:43:59] <RyanS> It's strange that they don't mention the brand
[04:44:20] <archivist> he does
[04:45:48] <archivist> some of his is modified to fit amateur lathes
[04:46:15] <ssi> ok so I put that little bit of python in ~/.axisrc which automatically switches to teleop mode once homed
[04:46:33] <ssi> apparently ja4/gentrivkins still has the concept of free vs teleop modes, but it's not visible in the ui
[04:46:38] <RyanS> oooo SWUCR/L . Minimum bore size 5.8mm
[04:47:01] <ssi> now I get proper slaving in teleop mode, however it doesn't seem to be respecting my velocity/accel limits!
[04:48:03] <ssi> RyanS: beware tiny boring and internal threading tools
[04:48:13] <ssi> they are very flexy and hard to use well
[04:49:02] <RyanS> This one looks like a proper boring bar, but it does appear difficult to get a good finish
[04:49:08] <archivist> I often grind my own boring tools
[04:49:41] <archivist> eg to bore a 2mm hole
[04:49:48] <RyanS> We tried doing that with an old drill bit, didn't work too well
[04:50:41] <archivist> use proper hss not old drills that may be soft on the shank
[04:51:16] <RyanS> I guess that could explain it
[04:54:24] <ssi> agh this really shouldn't be this hard!
[04:55:58] <RyanS> the sandvik knowledge section is great, and explains everything
[04:59:40] <ssi> axis.x.teleop-vel-lim is set to 1
[04:59:44] <ssi> I don't know what sets that
[04:59:53] <ssi> some ini parameter probably
[05:00:32] <ssi> OH I KNOW WHAT
[05:01:37] <ssi> yep that fixed it
[05:07:44] <ssi> ok now I'm looking good
[05:10:51] <ssi> hm apparently I only have 45" of Y travel
[05:10:56] <ssi> but I get a full 50" in X
[06:05:23] <jthornton> ssi, your plasma table?
[06:16:03] <ssi> jthornton: yeah
[06:16:11] <ssi> I got ja4/gentrivkins working
[06:17:02] <jthornton> cool, how does ja4 work for you?
[06:17:10] <ssi> so far so good
[06:17:19] <ssi> only complaint I have is the free to teleop transition
[06:17:28] <ssi> ja4 doesn't have free/world mode switch in the ui
[06:17:47] <ssi> so I found a bit of python that someone posted on the board that goes in .axisrc, which automatically switches into teleop when all axes are homed
[06:18:00] <ssi> problem there is if I ever have to rehome the machine, I don't have a way to switch back to free mode
[06:18:06] <ssi> so I have to kill axis and relaunch
[06:19:16] <jthornton> wonder if you could add some python to switch back to free mode
[06:19:22] <ssi> probably
[06:19:27] <ssi> I just don't know enough about how to do it yet
[06:19:54] <ssi> oh hey I have a question you might have some insight into
[06:20:38] <ssi> I bought a duramax mini machine torch, and I asked about it on cnczone and got a respones from jimcolt talking about how it'll work on the 45a power supply but isn't recommended, and may have shorter consumable life, but to run 45A shielded consumables if I'm going to use it
[06:20:53] <ssi> looking at the manuals/cut charts, it's a bit odd
[06:21:18] <ssi> the 45A toches on the 45A power supply list higher speeds and lower voltages than the 45A consumables in the duramax torch on the 65A supply
[06:21:46] <ssi> like for 10ga, it's something like 60ipm @ 118V on the 45, and 40ipm @ 134V on the 65 w/45A consumables
[06:21:51] <jthornton> Jim is the best
[06:22:09] <ssi> I'm feeling like I should use the cut charts for the torch moreso than the power supply
[06:22:12] <ssi> does that seem accurate?
[06:22:53] <jthornton> you might have to test some to see what gives you the best cut with the least droos
[06:22:57] <ssi> yeah
[06:23:12] <ssi> I wouldn't have given it a second thought, except 118V on one torch vs 134V on another is a pretty dramatic difference
[06:23:14] <jthornton> on mine I can vari the power
[06:23:24] <jthornton> let me look
[06:23:54] <ssi> unfortunately jim or somebody locked the thread on cnczone before I could respond with this question
[06:26:59] <jthornton> hmm can't find my cut charts
[06:27:14] <ssi> what machine do you use?
[06:27:43] <jthornton> Hypertherm 1250
[06:27:46] <ssi> ah
[06:28:08] <ssi> on the powermax line, the cut charts are in the operator manual
[06:28:29] <ssi> oh also, I ordered a mesa thcad
[06:28:33] <jthornton> yea same but that directory is not shared on my LAN
[06:28:49] <ssi> I'm gonna see if I can swap the candcnc thc out for thcad and do all the thc logic in hal
[06:29:49] <jthornton> there's a component for the THCAD card
[06:29:52] <ssi> yea
[06:30:08] <ssi> I'm using the thcud comp that I think you wrote at the moment
[06:31:00] <jthornton> yea, that was a fork of the original thc component
[06:32:28] <ssi> heh so I'm looking at the 1250 manual
[06:32:36] <ssi> it has 40/60/80A consumables
[06:33:03] <ssi> so check this out:
[06:33:10] <jthornton> and fine cut
[06:33:32] <ssi> pmax45, t45m torch, 45A consumables: 10ga mild @ 140ipm, 117V
[06:34:14] <ssi> pmax65 at 45A, duramax torch, 45A consumables: 10ga mild @ 100ipm, 134V
[06:34:38] <ssi> 1250 at 40A, 40A consumables: 10ga mild @ 107ipm, 147V
[06:41:44] <ssi> jthornton: here's the mount I made with the new torch
[06:41:44] <ssi> https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqmvjXCIIAAs-av.jpg:large
[06:42:03] <ssi> have an ohmic cap for it, so I'm abandoning the floating torch w/microswitch in favor of ohmic sensing
[06:42:25] <ssi> I hope that works out... the floating head was compromising some rigidity and I think contributing to my high speed wander
[06:43:13] <jthornton> is that a big photo, I'm almost out of bandwidth for the month all ready
[06:44:01] <ssi> 101kb
[06:44:08] <ssi> https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqmvjXCIIAAs-av.jpg
[06:44:12] <ssi> slightly smaller that way
[06:44:22] <ssi> 69kb
[06:44:48] <ssi> what's your bandwith cap like?
[06:45:10] <jthornton> 10g
[06:45:14] <ssi> eep
[06:45:18] <ssi> I was fretting about a 300G cap :P
[06:45:19] <jthornton> yea
[06:45:36] <jthornton> wildblue satellite
[06:45:43] <ssi> then again I have 120mbit, and if I saturate the line I can hit the cap in like six hours :(
[06:45:48] <ssi> oh yeah, how is the satellite?
[06:45:53] <ssi> aside from the cap
[06:46:19] <jthornton> not bad, except for the cap
[06:46:23] <ssi> latency?
[06:46:50] <jthornton> I don't even check as I don't have any other way to get internet except dial up
[06:46:54] <ssi> gotcha
[06:47:02] <ssi> is it a dish that has to be aimed?
[06:47:24] <ssi> was contemplating earlier whether it was possible to get satellite internet aboard a sailboat on a pacific crossing :P
[06:47:26] <jthornton> and they have been laying fiber all up and down the highway about 1.6 miles from my house for the last year
[06:47:55] <jthornton> yea it is a dish that is about twice the size of the tv ones
[06:48:08] <ssi> gotcha... prolly not practical for ocean internet then :D
[06:48:40] <jthornton> that is not but the satellite phones work somehow with a non directional antenna
[06:48:55] <ssi> yeah, that's why I was wondering about the internet
[06:49:24] <ssi> honestly I have no clue how you can get an uplink with a tiny omni duckie antenna
[06:49:55] <ssi> oh well, there's always HF packet radio :D
[06:53:37] <ssi> so last time I had the table running, I had an issue where the Z axis was losing motion logically because of the pierce probes
[06:54:02] <ssi> after every two pierces, I'd have to rehome or else it'd fail due to soft limits
[06:54:19] <ssi> I need to reexamine that and figure out what was causing it
[06:56:51] <jthornton> are you making a Z+ move after turning the torch off to clear the offset?
[06:57:04] <ssi> hm probably not
[06:57:23] <ssi> just making a positive move clears it? how does that work?
[06:57:52] <jthornton> it's part of the component code
[06:57:55] <ssi> ahh
[06:58:00] <ssi> well that should be an easy fix then :)
[06:59:34] <ssi> I need to screw with sheetcam to get it posting properly
[07:00:28] <ssi> any thoughts on how to accurately measure squareness of the gantry?
[07:00:32] <jthornton> do you have my sheetcam post?
[07:00:36] <ssi> I don't think so
[07:00:58] <jthornton> should be on my web site in the cnc machines section
[07:01:18] <jthornton> I used a tape measure to square my gantry
[07:01:38] <ssi> how so?
[07:02:03] <ssi> found the post
[07:02:26] <ssi> hm I already had it on t he machine
[07:02:30] <ssi> so yeah maybe I did have it :)
[07:02:56] <jthornton> on my gantry I can measure from the truck to the front on each side pretty easy. To check my belt I move 12" then measure the 12 more etc
[07:03:23] <ssi> I don't know if I have an accurate reference point to measure to
[07:03:40] <ssi> last year I squared it by hand, and the way I did it was pretty hacky
[07:03:40] <jthornton> that does make it hard
[07:03:47] <ssi> I put a piece of plywood on the bed and taped paper to it
[07:03:56] <ssi> and I had it draw a 18x36" right angle
[07:04:00] <ssi> and laid a framing square on it
[07:04:07] <ssi> adjust slightly and recheck
[07:04:21] <ssi> took a long time, since my adjustment was pushing one side's pinion out of the rack and moving slightly
[07:04:32] <ssi> or unpowering and pushing the motor through steps
[07:05:00] <ssi> this time around I'll probably do the same thing, but lay a 64ths scale on the paper and measure the deviance and then correct with home offset
[07:05:08] <jthornton> yuck, mine is a bit easier... I have adjustments on each end of the belts
[07:05:37] <ssi> if it's visibly square over the size of a framing square I think I'll be happy
[07:06:17] <ssi> before I started squaring it last time, it was out like 3/8" over 24"
[07:06:20] <ssi> not great
[07:06:42] <jthornton> wow that would make some interesting parts
[07:06:43] <ssi> I was cutting a 16" wide rectangular plate and it was visibly keystoned
[07:07:04] <jthornton> any way to add some reference blocks to the gantry
[07:07:31] <ssi> I dunno
[07:07:43] <ssi> it's more the frame I'm worried about
[07:07:50] <ssi> it's hand-built welded rectangle tube steel
[07:08:40] <ssi> I guess I could just check with a square to see if the front of the frame is square to the left rail mounting surface
[07:09:04] <jthornton> can you measure diagonal on the frame?
[07:09:08] <ssi> I *think* it's pretty square, and evidence suggests at the very least that the gantry rails are pretty parallel
[07:09:14] <ssi> yeah
[07:09:24] <ssi> and I got it as square as possible by matching diagonals when I built it
[07:09:30] <ssi> I should check it again
[07:10:40] <ssi> but yeah, I'm getting very close to having it back running again
[07:10:46] <ssi> and this time I'm hoping it'll be better than ever
[07:11:18] <ssi> I switched from rack&pinion on X to belt, and so far I like the belt better
[07:11:24] <ssi> I'd like to do the same on both Y axes
[07:11:50] <ssi> the biggest problems I've had have had to do with slipping pinions, slipping gears in the belt reductions driving the pinions, and tension issues
[07:12:05] <jthornton> what size belt are you running?
[07:12:14] <jthornton> mine is belt on both x and y
[07:12:18] <ssi> XL
[07:12:48] <jthornton> I think my X is XL and the Y is the next size smaller
[07:12:58] <ssi> MXL is next size smaller
[07:13:02] <ssi> and that's the tiny 0.080" pitch stuff
[07:13:33] <ssi> I'm using 3/8" wide XL belt, 0.200" pitch, and direct driving a 14T pulley
[07:13:42] <ssi> which isn't ideal, because I can't get single steps down to 0.001"
[07:13:59] <ssi> er, not even close
[07:14:03] <jthornton> mine must be XL on Y and the next bigger on X as it is about 1/2" wide
[07:14:03] <ssi> that's 0.014" per step
[07:14:07] <ssi> 0.014" per microstep :/
[07:14:12] <ssi> er, 0.0014" per microstep
[07:14:23] <ssi> next bigger would be L belt
[07:14:28] <ssi> unless it's just 1/2" wide XL
[07:14:46] <jthornton> dunno it is too early to wander out and see
[07:14:51] <ssi> :)
[07:14:58] <ssi> I opted not to sleep last night
[07:15:00] <jthornton> I put a reduction belt on mine
[07:15:09] <ssi> homebuilt or storebought?
[07:15:45] <ssi> I built three homebuilt 3:1 reductions, and they work, but they introduce problem areas for me
[07:15:55] <ssi> was thinking about trying to get some 5:1 planetary nema 23 reductions
[07:15:59] <jthornton> I spend 12 hrs on the road and 8 hours in the saddle for a total of 400 miles of back country roads on the Spyder yesterday so sleep was easy
[07:15:59] <ssi> or maybe just some geared steppers
[07:16:11] <ssi> oh yeah sailing to cuba :)
[07:16:14] <jthornton> I built mine from scratch, my first EMC project
[07:16:24] <jthornton> Cuba Mo
[07:16:28] <ssi> aye
[07:17:57] <ssi> sigh, the never ending machine upgrade path :)
[07:18:18] <ssi> I also need to clean out the bed, clean or replace the slats, make some new quench
[07:18:21] <ssi> and make a cover for it
[07:18:34] <jthornton> what are you using for quench?
[07:18:37] <ssi> thinking about getting some ripstop nylon, hemming the edges, and sewing rare earth magnets into the hems
[07:18:48] <ssi> the homebrew quench recipe that's floating around
[07:18:57] <ssi> sodium nitrite, fungicide, and green dye
[07:19:04] <ssi> physan 20 I think is the fungicide
[07:19:10] <jthornton> I skip the dye
[07:19:13] <jthornton> same here
[07:19:20] <ssi> yeah... I bought the dye, so I use it :)
[07:19:26] <jthornton> but some blue dye would be cool
[07:19:27] <ssi> it doesn't stay green tho hehe
[07:19:42] <ssi> my slats are mild steel, and they are pretty damn rusty
[07:19:50] <ssi> plus drop and dross rust up pretty nasty
[07:20:05] <ssi> also I get mosquitos breeding in it despite the chemicals
[07:20:11] <ssi> and evaporation... that's why I want to make a cover
[07:20:12] <jthornton> might not have enough sodium nitrite in the mix, mine never rusts
[07:20:28] <ssi> do you mix it in the table?
[07:20:52] <ssi> I think I guesstimated on the volume; may have gotten it very wrong
[07:20:53] <jthornton> you'll love this then, I took a water tank and drain the table into it and use air to pump it back up
[07:21:09] <ssi> so you keep it dry typically?
[07:21:10] <jthornton> I mix in 5 gallon can/bucket
[07:21:14] <jthornton> yes
[07:21:22] <ssi> that'd be nice
[07:21:26] <jthornton> before it would evaporate to fast
[07:21:28] <ssi> what's the capacity of your table?
[07:21:33] <jthornton> it was really easy to do
[07:21:41] <jthornton> water volume?
[07:21:43] <ssi> yeah
[07:21:56] <jthornton> 30 gallons maybe
[07:22:06] <ssi> what's the size of the working area?
[07:22:07] <ssi> 4x4?
[07:22:33] <ssi> mine is like 50"x50"x4" deep
[07:22:36] <jthornton> 54" on X and about 39" on Y
[07:22:40] <ssi> slats are raised an inch, and 3" wide
[07:23:05] <jthornton> but I can put a whole sheet on the water table and the excess just hangs out the front
[07:23:12] <ssi> 50x50x4 is 10k cubic inches = 43.29 gal
[07:23:23] <jthornton> mine is 3" deep
[07:23:46] <ssi> so what did you use for a tank, and how does the air pump work?
[07:24:06] <ssi> I guess if the outflow of the tank is at the bottom, and you pressurize the top with air, it'll force water down and up into the table
[07:24:20] <jthornton> yep that is how I do it
[07:24:41] <ssi> I have a valve in the center of the table, I could probably make that work if I found an appropriate tank
[07:24:56] <jthornton> I have a valve on the fill line that I close after filling then vent the tank. when I'm done I open the valve and the tank fills back up
[07:25:10] <jthornton> I used a water heater tank
[07:25:39] <jthornton> made a pvc dip tube fitting for one of the element bungs
[07:26:24] <ssi> like a little expansion tank?
[07:26:26] <ssi> or are those too small
[07:26:31] <ssi> use a full size water heater?
[07:27:38] <ssi> a 50 gallon pressure tank is gonna be expensive and bulky :/
[07:27:41] <jthornton> this was a 40 gallon heater, I stripped the outside off and checked for leaks then cleaned out all the crap and I was good to go
[07:27:57] <ssi> hm maybe an air compressor tank
[07:28:05] <jthornton> it only takes about 5-10 psig to move the water out
[07:28:16] <ssi> good point
[07:28:44] <ssi> I wonder if I could use something like a plastic rv tank
[07:28:49] <jthornton> the water heater I got was a leaker but it was leaking at the fitting due to no sealant
[07:28:51] <ssi> or something like this
[07:28:52] <ssi> http://www.plastic-mart.com/product/6672/45-gallon-flat-bottom-utility-tank-43837?mn=pm005z&gclid=CKz3ney5jb8CFZRj7Aodrg8ANQ
[07:29:06] <ssi> "vented lid" might be a problem :P
[07:29:32] <ssi> I guess I could just weld something up
[07:29:34] <jthornton> yea
[07:29:50] <ssi> just need that same 10k cubic inches, or similar
[07:30:04] <ssi> 22" cubed would do it
[07:30:28] <ssi> can't quite get that out of a half sheet
[07:30:37] <ssi> 3/4 of a sheet of 10ga aluminum
[07:30:43] <ssi> welded up with some fittings added
[07:31:21] <ssi> 10ga is overkill
[07:31:24] <ssi> 0.063" would be plenty
[07:31:44] <ssi> might be $100 worth of sheet
[07:31:54] <jthornton> find someone to roll it for you and only 1 seam
[07:32:05] <ssi> hmm
[07:32:28] <ssi> cylinder?
[07:32:36] <ssi> I count three seams in a cylinder
[07:35:28] <jthornton> I'd search craigslist for a $50 water heater before building a tank
[07:36:39] <ssi> my only concern about that is the height
[07:36:43] <ssi> I'd prefer something that'll sit under the table
[07:36:54] <jthornton> lay it on it's side
[07:36:55] <ssi> although I dunno how tall the actual tank is
[07:37:04] <ssi> haha
[07:37:07] <ssi> yeah I guess I could do that
[07:38:09] <jthornton> I'll take a photo of my setup in a bit
[07:38:11] <ssi> http://atlanta.craigslist.org/eat/hsh/4530508571.html
[07:38:14] <ssi> $60, 50 gal
[07:38:15] <ssi> heh
[07:38:25] <jthornton> there you go
[07:55:27] <jdh> wonder what the market for used water heaters that might work is.
[07:55:36] <ssi> they're out there
[07:56:17] <JT-Shop> http://www.gnipsel.com/images/plasma/Water%20Tank.jpg
[07:56:46] <ssi> JT-Shop: neat
[07:56:53] <ssi> I can probably work that out
[07:57:08] <ssi> I need to get my little trailer roadworthy, then I can haul out and pick up something from craigs
[07:57:49] <ssi> so you just have a standpipe inside?
[07:59:02] <JT-Shop> yea the white pvc ell has a pipe glued into it to go almost to the bottom
[07:59:37] <ssi> makes sense
[07:59:42] <JT-Shop> the regulator, fill and vent valve go into a different port
[07:59:56] <ssi> so when you drain the table, do you clean the dross and drop out of the bottom?
[08:00:22] <JT-Shop> yea, after it dries I pull up the slats and use a scraper to pull it out
[08:00:31] <ssi> how often do you do that?
[08:01:38] <JT-Shop> I don't cut everyday so I clean it when I feel like it lol
[08:01:42] <ssi> :)
[08:02:10] <JT-Shop> I'll say hmm looks like too much crap in there I think I'll clean it out before I cut today
[08:02:39] <JT-Shop> right now my sand blasting thing is sitting on top of the plasma table
[08:09:18] <ssi> ok so what do I need to do first... get the new X fine calibrated, maybe get the squareness measured and calibrated
[08:09:27] <ssi> then I can hang the torch and figure out ohmic sensing
[08:09:43] <ssi> need to modify the power supply for the new firing scheme
[08:09:52] <ssi> then I can try some test cuts
[08:11:00] <JT-Shop> keep us posted
[08:24:32] <ssi> hm something is very not good with this axis
[08:25:18] <ssi> if I mdi g0 3", it moves very close to 3"
[08:25:29] <ssi> but if I incremental jog 0.010", it doesn't move hardly at all
[08:25:44] <ssi> I incremental jogged it over 0.34" without it hardly moving
[08:25:55] <ssi> and then when mdi g0 back to 3", it ended up like 2.6" over
[08:26:41] <ssi> I wonder if that has to do with the fact that a full step is 0.014"
[08:55:27] <ssi> on a happier note, it's square enough for right now without screwing with it
[09:23:48] <ssi> ohmic sensing works great
[09:23:56] <ssi> and no more having to screw with measuring switch offset
[09:24:38] <ssi> now to get the powersupply rewired and back in place... so close to test cut :D
[09:36:39] <jdh> guy wants to paypal me for the Rav4 without ever having seen it.
[09:43:28] <ssi> sounds a little scammy
[09:46:55] <JT-Shop> yea, tis a scam for sure
[09:53:35] <ssi> well now... something else has gone horribly wrong
[09:53:45] <ssi> I got the power supply rewired and hooked back up
[09:53:55] <ssi> fired the torch with the spindle on button in axis
[09:54:00] <ssi> it stuttered a couple times
[09:54:05] <ssi> now I have no motion
[09:54:15] <ssi> green light isn't coming on on the gecko when I enable the machine
[09:57:08] <jdh> bypass the gecko pwm enable?
[09:57:13] <jdh> assuming you have such.
[09:58:14] <ssi> chargepump you mean?
[09:58:17] <ssi> yea I tried that
[09:58:27] <ssi> gecko goes green if I bypass the chargepump, but still no motion
[09:58:31] <ssi> I just rebooted, lets see what happens
[09:58:41] <ssi> still nothing
[09:58:48] <ssi> lemme check the limit io
[09:59:50] <ssi> limit io is responding, so I don't think the mesa is fried
[09:59:52] <ssi> so what in the world...
[10:00:40] <ssi> 48VDC is good
[10:02:56] <skroon_> my machine bed has holes in them already, I was expecting the bottom left hole to be exactly at 10x10mm but it's something like: 10.235mm (I can't really tell 100% sure), so now i'm thinking to make new M8 holes at exactly 10x10mm, so I can use those machine coordinates to reference off, is this perhaps a dumb idea ?
[10:02:56] <Tom_itx> ssi there was discussion about using a beer keg for a tank at one point :)
[10:03:08] <skroon_> before I start making holes, i thought i'd better check online with you guys :-)
[10:03:54] <ssi> Tom_itx: haha thats not a terrible idea
[10:04:07] <skroon_> to me it sounds like a good idea todo, so that whenever I clamp a number piece of stock in my machine, I know which working coordinates I can go to, and use that as x0 y0 for my work pice
[10:04:11] <skroon_> piece
[10:05:02] <skroon_> especially if I want to flip my stock to mill on two sides
[10:05:40] <ssi> I think the charge pump is running
[10:05:56] <revo14> hi, this machine is good for linuxcnc http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ve/MLV-421459140-computador-ibm-aptiva-_JM
[10:06:02] <ssi> I can see a 2.5VDC signal on that pin, although my meter seems to think it's 2.5KHz, and I feel like it's supposed to be 10khz
[10:08:27] <skroon_> anyone know anything about double sided milling here? i'm wondering which point you choose to be your 0,0 i'm a bit confused as to what the best approach is
[10:08:36] <ssi> I really can't imagine what happened :( it was running fine fifteen minutes ago
[10:09:23] <ssi> skroon_: just need a good fixture that holds it repeatably in all three dimensions
[10:09:35] <ssi> maybe put two dowel holes in the topside and have a fixture with locator pins
[10:10:00] <ssi> or have a good vise with a workstop, and have two orthogonal faces that locate against the vise fixed jaw and workstop
[10:11:27] <skroon_> ssi: I get the idea of usign dowelpins, up until the point of, what will you use as your origin (x0, y0) even when having this fixture?
[10:11:57] <ssi> whatever you want!
[10:12:00] <ssi> really depends on your cam
[10:12:44] <skroon_> ssi: but each stock I have, has different sizes, or slightly different sizes, so i'm a bit confused how I can repeatedly choose the same origin
[10:13:01] <ssi> well when you machine the topside, you're going to end up with known dimensions
[10:13:23] <ssi> when you flip it over and hold it by those known dimensions, you should be able to repeatably have a reference coordinate system to machine the bottom side
[10:13:58] <skroon_> so does that mean, when you flip over the object, then you have to set a new origin ?
[10:14:14] <Tom_itx> not necessarily
[10:14:28] <ssi> it really depends on your workholding and your process
[10:14:43] <skroon_> i'm usign CamBam btw
[10:14:50] <Tom_itx> i generally try to move my cad so i can keep the same origin
[10:15:06] <ssi> skroon_: got a picture of what you're trying to cut?
[10:15:20] <skroon_> ssi: yeah hold on
[10:17:55] <skroon_> ssi: http://tinypic.com/r/2hrn7ft/8 that's how the 3d part looks
[10:18:31] <Tom_L> is that extrusion?
[10:18:41] <skroon_> Tom_L: what do you mean?
[10:18:49] <Tom_L> or are you milling the slots
[10:18:49] <ssi> ok, and what's your raw stock like, and how are you fixturing it to cut the topside?
[10:19:08] <Tom_L> always draw your raw stock around your part. it will help you
[10:19:09] <skroon_> Tom_L: I would like to mill the hole thing
[10:19:16] <skroon_> Tom_L: aha
[10:19:26] <skroon_> ssi: my stock is just a piece of wood, let me make a picture
[10:19:39] <Tom_L> remember what you mill away on the first op to be able to hold it on the 2nd op
[10:19:39] <skroon_> ssi: btw, I have no idea yet what would be the best way to clamp it down
[10:19:51] <skroon_> ssi: I was thinking about just screwing it to my spoilboard perhaps?
[10:20:00] <ssi> skroon_: what I'm getting at... is the raw stock the same dimension as the finished piece in X (along your red axis)?
[10:20:12] <ssi> or are you going to machine it to size on one or both faces in that dimension?
[10:20:54] <Tom_L> sometimes we would have the op mill their blocks to dimension before beginning the cnc cutting
[10:21:07] <Tom_L> other times we'd just cut it all from a specified block size
[10:21:21] <skroon_> ssi: good question, the raw stock in width is little bit bigger, like 20mm bigger... the length is much bigger, I have couple of meters here, and the hight is like half of the size of this piece
[10:21:37] <skroon_> ssi: I was hoping, I was able to machien it to size, from both sizes
[10:21:42] <ssi> if you have to machine it in width as well as height, you're going to have to do something like screwing it down
[10:21:42] <skroon_> sides
[10:21:51] <ssi> although are the holes in the finished product acceptable?
[10:21:58] <ssi> er, width as well as length I meant
[10:22:15] <Tom_L> start with one good side and put it against dowel pins
[10:22:26] <Tom_L> clamp the work to the table
[10:22:29] <skroon_> I was thinkign to use "bridges" to hold it into place, and use sandpaper to remove them later
[10:22:40] <Tom_L> use a stop on X to slide it for the next part
[10:23:04] <Tom_L> how long is the part?
[10:23:23] <ssi> it'll be tough to find a way to clamp it which will allow cutting all those radiused edges in one operation
[10:23:31] <skroon_> 80mm length
[10:23:41] <skroon_> widht 40mm
[10:23:43] <Tom_L> i agree with ssi
[10:23:56] <ssi> it could be done fairly well in a short vise
[10:23:57] <skroon_> height, 12mm
[10:24:07] <Tom_L> cut the bottom radius last
[10:24:14] <XXCoder1> is there any holes inside part?
[10:24:15] <Tom_L> hold it in vise jaws to machine the top
[10:24:20] <Tom_L> flip it for the radius
[10:24:22] <ssi> if you were doing it in metal on a mill I'd say clamp it in a vise and machine the topside, then flip it over
[10:24:37] <Tom_L> oh, he isn't?
[10:24:37] <ssi> but the vise would need to be very very short in order to machine both ends in one op
[10:24:47] <Tom_L> what's he cutting it on?
[10:24:48] <ssi> no, wood on a router it sounds like
[10:24:54] <XXCoder1> if so, could make it cut insides, clamp part there, then remove outside edge clamps
[10:25:07] <XXCoder1> must be very careful not to move part
[10:25:21] <skroon_> sorry for all the silly questions, i'm just trying to wrap my head around this :-)
[10:25:29] <Tom_L> there are a number of ways to hold it
[10:25:32] <ssi> workholding is one of the hardest problems in machining :)
[10:25:39] <skroon_> so how to clamp it in a vice, clamp the length edges into a vice?
[10:25:48] <XXCoder1> oh youre using vice
[10:25:52] <ssi> the face on the left side of your image
[10:25:53] <Tom_L> i would
[10:25:55] <ssi> and the one parallel to it
[10:26:01] <Tom_L> then flip it to do the bottom radius
[10:26:06] <ssi> if you could start with stock that was already at width, that'd be the way to go
[10:26:15] <ssi> but since your stock is oversize in all dimensions, that's out :P
[10:26:21] <Tom_L> not really
[10:26:25] <ssi> it's gonna have to be multi-operation
[10:26:27] <Tom_L> first op would be to size the width
[10:26:37] <Tom_L> ssi, it would be anyway
[10:26:42] <ssi> I mean more than two
[10:26:42] <XXCoder1> cant you cut it to size first, say one dimension cut to size, skroon_ like ssi said
[10:27:22] <ssi> trick is, you can't machine five sides of a part without screwing it down
[10:27:23] <skroon_> cut it to size, means cutting exactly to: X: 40 Y: 60 Z: 12 ?
[10:27:34] <skroon_> sorry Y: 80
[10:27:38] <ssi> cut it to width
[10:27:40] <ssi> 40mm
[10:27:43] <Tom_L> ssi, he's machining all 6
[10:28:05] <ssi> Tom_L: don't be pedantic, you know he's not machining six faces in one operation unless he's fucking magirc
[10:28:16] <skroon_> simsalabim
[10:28:16] <Tom_L> no i didn't mean that
[10:28:16] <skroon_> :)
[10:28:24] <skroon_> maybe I shoudl first start with simpler thing :)
[10:28:30] <Loetmichel> Tom_L: why not?
[10:28:31] <skroon_> so I can practice double sided milling
[10:28:31] <ssi> he's not machining five faces in one operation without screwing it to the spoilboard
[10:28:32] <Tom_L> it's not that difficult
[10:28:36] <ssi> which is doable if you don't mind the holes
[10:28:36] <XXCoder1> all 6? sure its easy. just use 4d cnc
[10:28:40] <Loetmichel> never heard of "siemens skyhooks"`?
[10:28:41] <skroon_> what would be more easier to start with?
[10:28:42] <Loetmichel> ;-)
[10:29:13] <skroon_> I mean, it seems that having a bigger stock makes things more easy?
[10:29:16] <ssi> skroon_: you can make this part, you just have to figure out how to hold it
[10:29:18] <skroon_> in terms of clamping ti down
[10:29:27] <XXCoder1> skroon_: why must one run?
[10:29:32] <skroon_> ssi: right, this hole... holding it down is indeed something I find hard :)
[10:29:40] <ssi> skroon_: what methods do you have to hold it down?
[10:29:51] <ssi> vise? toggle clamps? what
[10:29:52] <XXCoder1> why not two steps, first cut sides, then run 2 can do rest since you can clamp down on already exact side
[10:29:55] <Loetmichel> in terms of clamping something down i made surprisingly good experiences with double sided tape and CA ;-)
[10:30:23] <skroon_> ssi: I have bought a cheap vise, but I haven't used it yet... at the moment i'm screwing things down into my spoilboard (i've got a wooden spoilboard, and at the moment mostly milling wood or plastics)
[10:30:29] <ssi> Loetmichel: I'd be worried a part that small wouldn't hold with tape or CA
[10:30:44] <skroon_> ssi: i'm also using some washers as a "clamp" :)
[10:30:46] <Loetmichel> ssi: i am not. any more.
[10:30:51] <ssi> not worried?
[10:30:57] <Tom_L> skroon_, start with one of these: http://tom-itx.no-ip.biz:81/~webpage/cnc/Cube1.jpg
[10:30:57] <ssi> well hell, give tape a shot then
[10:31:09] <skroon_> Tom_L: joking right ? :)
[10:31:16] <Loetmichel> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o53RsosYwGg
[10:31:17] <Tom_L> it's not as hard as it looks
[10:31:24] <Loetmichel> ssi: thats aluminium 7075
[10:31:37] <Tom_L> i screwed that one up anyway
[10:31:38] <Loetmichel> ... and double sided carpet tape ;-)
[10:31:44] <ssi> Loetmichel: that's pretty good
[10:31:53] <skroon_> ssi: but indeed, this hole clamping up is what i'm struggling with at the moment
[10:31:56] <XXCoder1> a question though
[10:32:08] <XXCoder1> how clean it off when done?
[10:32:10] <ssi> skroon_: toggle clamps might be a decent option for your machine
[10:32:20] <skroon_> also I would need to make sure my surfcesof my stocker are 100% flat right? or doesn't it matter much ?
[10:32:28] <ssi> but the clamps will get in the way of all the features, so you'll have to shuffle them around a bit to get the whole thing cut
[10:32:31] <Tom_L> of course it matters
[10:32:46] <Tom_L> add op stops for clamp moves in your code
[10:33:03] <skroon_> ssi: right, so a vise would always be recommended ?
[10:33:04] <ssi> skroon_: these are awesome
[10:33:05] <ssi> http://www.amazon.com/Bessey-Auto-Adjust-Horizontal-Toggle-Clamp/dp/B0057PUL52
[10:33:10] <ssi> http://www.amazon.com/Bessey-Auto-Adjust-Inline-Toggle-Clamp/dp/B0057PUFMG/ref=pd_sim_hi_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=19S9EFETFK1GJDP795M9
[10:33:11] <Loetmichel> ... you just have to feed low enouhgh that the part doesent get hot when using tape ;-)
[10:33:13] <XXCoder1> yeah just dont acciently start next op without doing the nesscary work lol
[10:33:19] <ssi> screw them down to your spoilboard, and they autoadjust to your stock
[10:33:27] <skroon_> ssi: indeed: but these also get in the way right ?
[10:33:33] <ssi> skroon_: depends how you set it up
[10:33:40] <Tom_L> there are whole catalogs dedicated to clamping
[10:34:01] <ssi> the inline ones are nice... if your stock is at width, you can screw a stop ledger down, push the stock up against it, and use the inline toggle clamp to apply pressure into the ledger
[10:34:04] <skroon_> ssi: so you would use a straight edge, on one side... like a ruler I can mill and then use this side climp to tighten it up?
[10:34:12] <ssi> then you should be able to machine most of the top features if not all
[10:34:15] <ssi> yea
[10:34:44] <ssi> and the toggle clamps are pretty quick... you can build a repeatable setup that way
[10:34:52] <skroon_> so having the stock at width makes me wonder about... running against the wides of the clamps
[10:35:00] <ssi> hell here's an idea
[10:35:05] <ssi> have oversized stock
[10:35:12] <ssi> use a setup like I'm suggesting
[10:35:13] <skroon_> or you would always clamp it outside of the piece where you want to mill
[10:35:24] <ssi> and cut the radius on the clamp side, but not all the way through
[10:35:25] <archivist> bessey also made an odd adjustable spanner http://www.collection.archivist.info/searchv13.php?searchstr=bessey
[10:35:38] <ssi> and then for second op, clamp the long way on the finished ends, upside down
[10:35:50] <ssi> machine your bottom features and clean up the edge to width
[10:35:56] <skroon_> in this case the "second op" means the other side right ?
[10:36:01] <ssi> that'd do it in two ops using just an inline toggle or tow
[10:36:02] <ssi> two
[10:36:03] <ssi> yep
[10:36:46] <JT-Shop> ssi, you get it figured out?
[10:36:47] <skroon_> so do you use something like an edge finder, to do the second op? or that's not needed at all?
[10:37:02] <ssi> JT-Shop: no, the machine is hosed
[10:37:08] <Tom_itx> if your mill is true, you can mill halfway down, flip it and mirror the bottomside save any feature changes
[10:37:10] <ssi> JT-Shop: everything just quit running all of a sudden
[10:37:31] <XXCoder1> ssi: does machines you have has fuse of some kind?
[10:37:32] <skroon_> Tom_itx: "mill is true"? what do you mean?
[10:37:32] <Tom_itx> all in a vise with one op stop for a part flip
[10:37:50] <skroon_> Tom_itx: do you have a picture of a vise with a stop?
[10:37:51] <ssi> XXCoder1: there's a fuse in the gecko, but I don't believe it's blown
[10:37:54] <Tom_itx> you'll figure that out the first time you flip a part and it doesn't cut the same
[10:37:57] <ssi> I guess maybe it is, I should check it
[10:38:03] <XXCoder1> it can be amazing invisible break
[10:38:06] <ssi> skroon_: I'm drawing you a pic
[10:38:23] <skroon_> ssi: cool, thanks a lot, I appreciate that
[10:38:25] <XXCoder1> if its fataque break and not normal blown fuse
[10:39:07] <kfoltman> XXCoder1: http://i.imgur.com/KCZ0y72.jpg how's your router?
[10:39:12] <XXCoder1> besides isnt fuse like a dollar max? easy enough to look
[10:39:29] <ssi> they're not standard fuses :/
[10:39:35] <skroon_> btw, I was looking at this video, and it's kind of what I would like to accomplishg with double sided milling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8adiSMs7sME
[10:39:46] <skroon_> i'm just wondering how he makes sure that that stock is in straight
[10:39:58] <XXCoder1> kfoltman: finally figured how to design router holder assembly https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/53432577/cncideaRouterTweak.png
[10:40:04] <Tom_itx> skroon_, i did these brackets that way: http://tom-itx.no-ip.biz:81/~webpage/cnc/P1.jpg
[10:40:09] <XXCoder1> so I can start making wood swarf soonish
[10:40:19] <Tom_itx> then machined the center out: http://tom-itx.no-ip.biz:81/~webpage/cnc/P3.jpg
[10:40:19] <ssi> skroon_: screw your ledgers down and then machine them square :)
[10:40:26] <kfoltman> XXCoder1: nice :)
[10:40:37] <XXCoder1> yeah
[10:40:49] <XXCoder1> ssi even so, prices shouldnt be nuts
[10:40:53] <skroon_> ssi: what are "ledgers" ?
[10:40:58] <ssi> it's not the prices, it's the time to get them
[10:41:11] <XXCoder1> ahh. coin fuse? ;) JK
[10:41:11] <ssi> skroon_: just pieces of wood screwed down that give you a solid ledge to push your stock against
[10:41:33] <skroon_> ssi: did you see that video I just mentioned btw?
[10:41:34] <XXCoder1> you has milimeter? can you check current across fuses?
[10:41:41] <ssi> XXCoder1: dammit gimme a minute!
[10:41:49] <ssi> I have to disassemble the gecko to get to it
[10:41:53] <ssi> and I'm trying to draw skroon a pic
[10:41:54] <XXCoder1> lol ok
[10:42:02] <skroon_> ssi: :_
[10:42:03] <ssi> skroon_: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqvnyFkIEAE0oAO.jpg
[10:42:06] <ssi> skroon_: sorry it's hastily drawn
[10:42:13] <ssi> right side is the first operation
[10:42:36] <ssi> the ledger is a board that's parallel to your long axis that you can push the raw stock against, and it indexes on the short side by two dowels or another ledger
[10:42:43] <ssi> or one dowel, doesn't matter, just a way to stop it
[10:42:53] <ssi> then the toggle clamp pushes on the waste side of the width
[10:42:58] <skroon_> ssi: ah, I get how you clamp it indeed
[10:43:02] <ssi> you can machine all your topside features that way
[10:43:14] <ssi> including the radius of the long edge on the waste side, but just deep enough to cut that radius
[10:43:29] <ssi> then you have a second fixture set up where you hold the part by the short ends
[10:43:44] <ssi> and you machine away the waste side of the width
[10:43:47] <ssi> and cut the bottom featurse
[10:43:58] <ssi> looks like you can make your part in two operations that way
[10:44:08] <ssi> I'd buy two toggle clamps and set up both fixtures on the same spoilboard if you have room
[10:44:19] <ssi> and then use two different coordinate systems to setup origins for each operation
[10:44:30] <ssi> so you don't have to re-touchoff for each op
[10:44:43] <XXCoder1> interesting video Loetmichel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDcCyF_gVoY
[10:45:35] <skroon_> ssi: ah right cool, so I will indeed have two places on my spoilboard, one for the top side, one for the bottom side right?
[10:45:41] <os1r1s> Tom_itx: You around?
[10:46:18] <Loetmichel> XXCoder1: yes, i was to cheap to buy a thread cutter for two cuts in aluminium
[10:46:25] <Loetmichel> so i milled the tread ;-)
[10:46:28] <Loetmichel> +h
[10:46:29] <CaptHindsight> https://www.osadl.org/fileadmin/dam/rtlws/12/Brown.pdf Choosing between Xenomai and Linux for real-time applications (comparisons and good explanations using the BeagleBone)
[10:46:51] <XXCoder1> nice, its quite thick bolt so I guess it'd cost a bit. plus fuel lol
[10:47:00] <os1r1s> Does anyone write down the setups/process they use to use their mill/lathe/etc?
[10:47:29] <ssi> skroon_: taht's what I'm thinking
[10:47:56] <skroon_> ssi: making some notes, and thinking about what you said :)
[10:48:11] <ssi> skroon_: there's a million ways to do it, but that's probably what I'd shoot for if I were in your shoes
[10:48:15] <ssi> those clamps are fairly cheap too
[10:49:13] <skroon_> ssi: btw did you see this as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8adiSMs7sME ? unfortunately they don't show the flipping, so i'm wondering how he was able to put it back on the same spot... but this putting it back on the same "spot" isn't perhaps as needed as I thought it was, after hearing you about setting up 2 differen place of top and bottom
[10:49:25] <ssi> skroon_: i'll look in a minute
[10:49:29] <ssi> XXCoder1: fuse is NOT blown
[10:49:38] <XXCoder1> millimeter tested?
[10:49:55] <ssi> ya
[10:50:03] <XXCoder1> guess it wasnt it. too bad
[10:50:16] <XXCoder1> it also proves wiring across that fuse works fine too
[10:50:44] <ssi> I wish they'd made the fuse easier to get to
[10:50:53] <ssi> you literally have to completely disassemble it to get to the fuse
[10:51:00] <XXCoder1> crazy
[10:51:43] <XXCoder1> skroon_: it says registration is done by dowels
[10:51:52] <XXCoder1> so it can be flipped and still retain same position
[10:53:18] <skroon_> XXCoder1: I don't see them in the video though
[10:53:25] <skroon_> XXCoder1: I just see screws
[10:53:52] <XXCoder1> me either
[10:54:37] <skroon_> also the stock he's using needs to be completely squared I guess if he's using a ledger to push the stock against
[10:56:07] <ssi> I'm losing my damn mind
[10:56:23] <skroon_> XXCoder1: ah in this video of his: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXfJtYnii2Y i'm seeing him do some more mesuring when putting the stock down on the spoilboard
[10:56:30] <archivist> CaptHindsight, after a skim read, did I miss any proper spec of the AVR, ie is that fast enough (and low latency) to do valid tests
[10:56:40] <XXCoder1> so far its not cutting any outside border
[10:57:07] <skroon_> XXCoder1: right, which sounds to me like a prerequist when using stock right?
[10:57:30] <XXCoder1> good question, guy probably planed it or something
[10:58:59] <skroon_> you mean, he either cut the stock to that exact measurement, or design his drawing based on the stock width?
[10:59:11] <XXCoder1> or it does not matter
[10:59:31] <XXCoder1> look at near end, guys cutting parts thats completely inside from stock
[11:00:28] <ssi> if this guy was smart, he'd plan his toolpaths a bit better to avoid that nasty tearout at the ends of his dadoes
[11:00:43] <skroon_> ssi: which part do you mean?
[11:00:45] <tjtr33> CaptHindsight, re that A20 board http://hardware-libre.fr/2014/06/raspberry-vs-banana-hardware-duel/
[11:00:48] <XXCoder1> how prevent such?
[11:00:56] <ssi> XXCoder1: cut in from both sides
[11:00:57] <skroon_> XXCoder1: you mean the handle ?
[11:01:16] <XXCoder1> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8adiSMs7sME this video
[11:01:16] <skroon_> ssi: in the second movie you mean?
[11:01:19] <ssi> I guess he's cutting away the part that tears out
[11:01:21] <ssi> no the first one
[11:01:23] <skroon_> ahhh oke :)
[11:01:25] <ssi> I have no clue hat' hes' making :P
[11:02:02] <XXCoder1> no idea either even its showing finished product. cup holder maube?
[11:02:18] <skroon_> ssi: so form the first video, would you have an idea how he made sure he's on the exact same spot, when doing the other side?
[11:02:35] <ssi> skroon_: he says in the text that it's done using dowels
[11:02:45] <ssi> first thing he does is machine two holes that will fit on dowels to register the backside
[11:03:12] <skroon_> ssi: ah yeah just read it, he's dowels are in the center line
[11:03:35] <XXCoder1> guess secrews was to secure it after dowel positioning
[11:03:51] <ssi> yeah gotta hold it down somehow or it'll climb up the bit
[11:04:19] <XXCoder1> yeah had nasty climb ups at work lol. vaccum system sucks sometimes
[11:04:33] <skroon_> XXCoder1: ehhehe
[11:04:41] <ssi> you can see it trying to climb at the end of the first video when he's parting
[11:04:50] <ssi> the whole piece gets real flexy and tries to climb up the tool
[11:05:00] <skroon_> ssi: so those dowels would be part of his CAD drawing, or purely done in CAM you think?
[11:05:08] <ssi> skroon_: no clue; I don't cam :)
[11:05:14] <skroon_> ssi: don't CAM?
[11:05:17] <ssi> nope
[11:05:30] <skroon_> ssi: so how does that work then? you manually put in the gcode ?
[11:05:34] <ssi> yep
[11:05:45] <ssi> I use sheetcam for plasma, and that's about it
[11:06:03] <JT-Shop> ssi, what fried?
[11:06:07] <JT-Shop> sorry in a and out
[11:06:12] <ssi> JT-Shop: I really have no idea
[11:06:24] <JT-Shop> yuck
[11:06:25] <ssi> JT-Shop: I put the power supply in place, hit the spindle on button in axis to fire the torch
[11:06:31] <ssi> the torch came on and off three times, then went off
[11:06:39] <XXCoder1> brushed steel look. so 2000s for apple. http://www.sheetcam.com/
[11:06:39] <ssi> and then I tried to home the machine but nothing was running
[11:06:48] <ssi> motors aren't buzzing, chargepump never enables the drive
[11:07:08] <XXCoder1> controller?
[11:07:08] <ssi> fuse isn't blown in the gecko, and I don't think the mesa is dead, but I don't know that for sure
[11:07:12] <skroon_> ssi: so you never have todo double sided I guess with plasma cutters right?
[11:07:15] <JT-Shop> did it fry the power supply?
[11:07:17] <skroon_> XXCoder1: you do double sided millign?
[11:07:24] <ssi> limit switch inputs still work, and chargepump line appears to be running
[11:07:30] <ssi> nope, 48VDC is still up and good
[11:07:42] <XXCoder1> thankfully no. but I haven't begin home milling, just at work where I mill aluminium parts for airplanes
[11:07:50] <XXCoder1> which is all 2d and one side
[11:07:56] <ssi> XXCoder1: I mill aluminum parts for airplanes at home :)
[11:08:23] <XXCoder1> of course you do. airplanes seem to have billion different parts and have to outsource many of ut'
[11:08:26] <JT-Shop> you using G203v geckos?
[11:08:31] <ssi> JT-Shop: no, g540
[11:09:30] <ssi> XXCoder1: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/AvMitbRCMAAtrpB.jpg:large
[11:09:33] <JT-Shop> got another parallel port to test the g540 on?
[11:09:42] <ssi> JT-Shop: possibly
[11:09:55] <XXCoder1> ow would be bad if it blew pc parallel port
[11:10:02] <XXCoder1> or blew cable
[11:10:03] <ssi> XXCoder1: it's not on a parallel port
[11:10:28] <ssi> it would be bad if it blew the mesa, but not the end of the world; I have another on hand, but it's got the wrong firmware
[11:11:10] <ssi> at this point if the gecko is dead I'll probably trash it and get keling drives and a '76
[11:11:17] <JT-Shop> you got the g540 plugged into a 5i25?
[11:11:19] <ssi> but dammit I'm getting sick of refactoring
[11:11:20] <ssi> JT-Shop: yes
[11:11:22] <XXCoder1> skroon_: this might be interesting havent seen all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLD4dFoXC7o
[11:12:02] * JT-Shop keeps hearing about problems with g540s but never any with g203v's
[11:12:02] <ssi> and dmesg shows it coming up successfully, and limit switches still work on it, and the chargepump mostly appears to be running
[11:12:20] <JT-Shop> mine is running 5i25 - 7i76 G203v's
[11:12:22] <ssi> yea well if i have to go with discrete drives I'll probably do kelings
[11:12:29] <JT-Shop> 68v
[11:12:47] <JT-Shop> are they bullet proof?
[11:12:54] <ssi> I've never had a problem with one
[11:13:11] <JT-Shop> ah so they are not new to you then
[11:13:14] <ssi> plus they're less than half the price of the 203
[11:13:43] <ssi> yea my g0602 uses them
[11:14:08] <ssi> hell they're a THIRD the price of the 203
[11:14:18] <ssi> $43 apiece
[11:14:28] <ssi> eh those are only 40V tho
[11:14:47] <JT-Shop> the G203v's are 80v
[11:14:56] <JT-Shop> big difference on speed
[11:14:57] <ssi> 80V drives are $109
[11:15:10] <ssi> my motors aren't optimal for that high a voltage tho, and I don't have psu for it
[11:15:16] <ssi> they're optimal at 50V
[11:15:19] <JT-Shop> are they fixed microstepping?
[11:15:32] <ssi> nope
[11:15:42] <ssi> 3: Dip Switch Setting (Micro Step):
[11:15:42] <ssi> 2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,5,10,20,25,40,50,100,200
[11:15:43] <ssi> lol
[11:16:10] <ssi> that's the 60V 5.2A drive
[11:16:12] <ssi> those are $70
[11:16:24] <ssi> 7: Short-voltage, over-voltage, over-current and over temperature
[11:16:25] <ssi> protection
[11:16:29] <ssi> that's better than the damn G540
[11:16:31] <JT-Shop> wrong question, the G203's morph from 10 microsteps to full steps and you tune the transition point for smooth operation over the full rpm range
[11:16:39] <ssi> oh yeah the resonance thing
[11:16:43] <skroon_> XXCoder1: yeah that one is awesome! :-)
[11:16:54] <skroon_> XXCoder1: but I would like to use a more regularly used option :)
[11:17:03] <ssi> JT-Shop: thing is, once you get to that point I'd rather just go servo
[11:17:05] <JT-Shop> IMHO there are't many that are more trouble than the G540
[11:17:14] <XXCoder1> yeah. surpising strightforward though lol
[11:17:29] <ssi> JT-Shop: remember I need four of the bastards
[11:17:33] <ssi> that's $600 for 203s
[11:17:47] <JT-Shop> how much for servos?
[11:17:52] <ssi> AMC drives are cheap
[11:18:07] <ssi> I have three of them on hand
[11:18:15] <ssi> three drives and four servos
[11:18:37] <ssi> they're on my 30% completed G0704, but if I have to redo this plasma machine AGAIN, I might go that route
[11:18:49] <ssi> honestly if the drive electronics are unrecoverable
[11:18:56] <ssi> I may just throw this machine in the trash and sell the cutter and torches
[11:18:58] <JT-Shop> that don't sound bad, are they dumb drives?
[11:19:10] <ssi> the AMCs are great drives
[11:19:18] <ssi> multimode
[11:19:24] <JT-Shop> cool
[11:19:27] <ssi> can do velocity, torque, current mode
[11:19:34] <ssi> run them with tachs or without
[11:19:35] <JT-Shop> nice
[11:19:39] <ssi> lots of options
[11:19:43] <JT-Shop> even nicer
[11:19:44] <ssi> I've built several nice machines with them
[11:19:57] <ssi> and the ones I have are 80V 30A drives
[11:20:15] <JT-Shop> got a link to them?
[11:20:18] <ssi> have 60V servos and a big 60V toroidal linear
[11:20:20] <ssi> yea sec
[11:20:30] <ssi> http://www.a-m-c.com/download/datasheet/30a8.pdf
[11:20:43] <ssi> the brushless ones are common too
[11:20:52] <ssi> i think the brushless ones will do brushless or brushed servos
[11:21:11] <ssi> I say they're cheap, but I mean cheap used on ebay
[11:21:14] <XXCoder1> skroon_: its interesting shape for soap dish. I guess made for quickest drying
[11:21:14] <ssi> they're like $1500 retail
[11:22:21] <ssi> http://www.a-m-c.com/download/datasheet/be12a6.pdf
[11:22:35] <ssi> those are 60V 12A brushed or brushless, and there's an auction with 7 available for $52 each
[11:23:11] <ssi> I used that exact drive for the big centroid knee mill retrofit I did
[11:23:44] <ssi> this one
[11:23:44] <ssi> https://scontent-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/t31.0-8/459136_10100131793367542_829866394_o.jpg
[11:23:56] <CaptHindsight> archivist: the Beagleboard uses a OMAP3530 720MHz ARM Cortex-A8 http://www.ti.com/product/omap3530
[11:24:12] <CaptHindsight> not AVR
[11:24:25] <ssi> actually now that I think about it I think those were the 200V drives, cause I think that mill used 190V servos or something crazy like that
[11:25:12] <ssi> bbb is the sitara am3359
[11:25:19] <ssi> it's an omap variant, but I don't think it's that one exactly
[11:26:44] <ssi> JT-Shop: I guess my next step is to cobble together a parport G540 config that I can run to test the G540 without the mesa in the loop
[11:27:18] <JT-Shop> yep
[11:27:33] <CaptHindsight> ssi: yes beagleboard vs BBB OMAP3530 vs am3359
[11:27:38] <JT-Shop> now I need to find some fabric to glue the ends of a foam air filter together
[11:27:44] <ssi> oh beagleboard sry
[11:28:04] <XXCoder1> interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV48f5D6kBY
[11:28:06] <ssi> I'm getting really sick of the sisyphean nature of this damn project :(
[11:28:08] <CaptHindsight> nah, good to be clear, people get the two confused
[11:28:09] <archivist> CaptHindsight, his platform yes but the measuring "hardware" is an AVR
[11:28:15] <ssi> every victory comes with a new uphill battle
[11:28:24] <JT-Shop> http://gnipsel.com/spyderstore/index.php?route=product/product&path=64&product_id=69
[11:28:41] <JT-Shop> see the green filters? I need to make a flat spot where I join them
[11:31:57] <ssi> hm maybe I'll try something dead stupid
[11:32:03] <ssi> like swapping the parallel cables
[11:32:04] <CaptHindsight> archivist: http://elinux.org/BeagleBoard_Trainer
[11:32:09] <ssi> can't be that easy can it?
[11:32:23] <XXCoder1> in IT profession you always check stupid stuff like that first
[11:32:30] <XXCoder1> like, say, plug
[11:34:06] <CaptHindsight> archivist: http://www.atmel.com/devices/atmega328.aspx
[11:34:45] <archivist> CaptHindsight, yes, what is the resolution/accuracy, I was taught that one needed a measuring system with an order of magnitude above the device under test
[11:37:38] <ssi> no, of course it's not the cable
[11:39:05] <ssi> sample config for parport->G540 3 axis doesn't work either
[11:39:51] <ssi> on second thought, maybe it does
[11:40:13] <ssi> no charge pump and I can only make one axis run, but an axis is in fact running
[11:41:16] <JT-Shop> can't you jumper out the charge pump?
[11:41:27] <ssi> yes
[11:41:39] <ssi> that's how I made the axis run
[11:41:45] <JT-Shop> IIRC the G250's inside of the G540 can be swapped out but I may be wrong
[11:41:51] <ssi> they can
[11:41:58] <ssi> but I don't think it's the drives
[11:42:13] <ssi> my pre-ja4 config is up now, and it doesn't run at all
[11:42:27] <Jymmm> js4?
[11:42:47] <ssi> I think it's the mesa :/
[11:42:55] <ssi> dunno what the best way to test it is
[11:43:25] <Jymmm> Got Arduino?
[11:43:29] <JT-Shop> the best way to test a mesa card is to call the Wizard
[11:43:46] <JT-Shop> pcw_home, are you around?
[11:44:24] <Jymmm> JT-Shop: Mr Snuffleupagus?
[11:45:07] <JT-Shop> Jymmm, you been eating mushrooms again?
[11:45:24] <Jymmm> JT-Shop: You said the wizard
[11:45:32] <ssi> both ptcs on board test good, but testing them in place doesn't necessarily mean anything
[11:46:18] * JT-Shop notes that a pottery kiln makes a terrible powder coat oven
[11:46:22] <ssi> lol
[11:46:28] <ssi> I have a pottery kiln...
[11:46:36] <ssi> was gonna try to use it either for baking cerakote or for heat treating :P
[11:46:41] <ssi> haven't gotten around to etiher
[11:48:19] <Jymmm> JT-Shop: I suppose pcw_home could kinda look like this *shrug* http://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s720x720/148713_412699878770524_1733870615_n.jpg
[11:49:41] <XXCoder1> interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV48f5D6kBY and year later repair at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mieiMEj-Buc
[11:52:12] <IchGuckLive> hi all
[11:52:12] <XXCoder1> hey ich
[11:52:14] <ssi> hey ich
[11:52:16] <IchGuckLive> ;-)
[11:52:21] <ssi> I got my machine all working and ready for a test cut
[11:52:30] <ssi> and the first time I fired the torch, something quit, and i don't know what
[11:52:32] <ssi> now I have zero motion
[11:52:56] <XXCoder1> did you try it again with torch off?
[11:52:57] <IchGuckLive> did you ground your mashine against all plasma
[11:53:11] <ssi> XXCoder1: uhm, yes of course :P
[11:53:22] <ssi> IchGuckLive: yes, everything's grounded
[11:53:35] <ssi> including plasma ground to table slats
[11:53:44] <XXCoder1> yeah remember checking stupid simple stuff first ;)
[11:53:54] <ssi> bear in mind this machine has always run this way, with all the same drive and control electronics
[11:54:00] <IchGuckLive> oh that is wear
[11:54:00] <ssi> only thing that's new is the torch
[11:54:13] <ssi> eh?
[11:54:33] <IchGuckLive> its a mashine tourqe
[11:54:36] <IchGuckLive> torch
[11:54:37] <ssi> yes
[11:55:07] <IchGuckLive> mine dident have any contact to the mashine
[11:55:27] <IchGuckLive> meter mesuerd about 3mOhm
[11:55:35] <IchGuckLive> Mega
[11:55:41] <ssi> metering what?
[11:55:52] <IchGuckLive> Touch to mashine
[11:56:09] <ssi> torch shield cap to the machine frame?
[11:56:17] <IchGuckLive> the Ground of the plasma has contact to the part
[11:56:46] <IchGuckLive> the Clamp i mean
[11:56:56] <ssi> I wonder if the ohmic cap is what did it
[11:57:52] <ssi> I bet it is
[11:58:05] <ssi> I bet I murdered the shit out of the mesa with the ohmic cap the way I have it wired
[11:58:14] <ssi> it probably needs to be wired through the THC voltage sensor or something
[11:58:28] <ssi> or maybe a relay that cuts it out before the torch can fire
[11:58:53] <IchGuckLive> lcthc
[11:58:56] <ssi> yes
[11:59:39] <IchGuckLive> bring off all plasma and try plasma standalone
[11:59:57] <IchGuckLive> you can just shorten the 3/4
[12:00:06] <ssi> what?
[12:00:43] <IchGuckLive> cpc pin
[12:00:56] <IchGuckLive> or stick back the handheld
[12:00:56] <ssi> oh to manually fire you mean
[12:01:08] <IchGuckLive> yes
[12:01:23] <ssi> yeah so what I'm thinking is the ohmic cap probably sees full arc voltage relative to plate when the torch is fired
[12:01:33] <ssi> so I think I put 340V into an IO on the mesa :D
[12:01:36] <Jymmm> XXCoder1: And they could have made a new blade with less work than repairing the old one if they had a CNC router =)
[12:01:56] <XXCoder1> guess so, but it'd have to be bigass cnc router
[12:02:05] <XXCoder1> bigass 5 axis
[12:02:30] <Jymmm> XXCoder1: 8x10, I've seen them in cabinet shops around here.
[12:02:47] <IchGuckLive> XXCoder1: 5 axis http://foengarage.de/5achs.jpg
[12:03:15] <Jymmm> IchGuckLive: Is that yours?
[12:03:17] <XXCoder1> the z has to be quite large. I use 6'x10'x1' cnc router at work. its not large enough z wise lol
[12:03:27] <IchGuckLive> Jymmm: yes i made it
[12:03:33] <XXCoder1> nicely done
[12:03:35] <JT-Shop> ssi, ouch
[12:03:48] <ssi> JT-Shop: yeah, dumb mistakes are dumb :)
[12:03:51] <Jymmm> XXCoder1: No no, they just cut the plywood on CNC, then assemble for height.
[12:03:59] <XXCoder1> ahh
[12:04:19] <JT-Shop> if you survive then you just got more education
[12:04:21] <XXCoder1> yeah that is easier. even so theres still little bit of sanding and assembly
[12:04:33] <Jymmm> XXCoder1: including beveling the edge to the contour instead fof using an angle grinder.
[12:04:34] <IchGuckLive> XXCoder1: ^on that size i go at M880A
[12:04:39] <ssi> JT-Shop: fortunately, 5i25s are cheap enough, and I have a spare on hand, but I'll hav eto figure out how to flash it
[12:05:03] <IchGuckLive> ssi send it back to pcw to check it
[12:05:13] <XXCoder1> ssi: easy, just wear robe and nothing else, then open robe briefly to it. ;)
[12:05:22] <ssi> IchGuckLive: yeah I could, I'll see what he has to say
[12:05:35] <ssi> I'm sure he'll have choice words about my hooking up torch tip to a bare IO :)
[12:05:43] <Jymmm> IchGuckLive: Very nice, one comment/suggestion... Use TEO muffin fans on that PS, prone to failure at the worse possible moment. Wire in parallel
[12:05:48] <Jymmm> TWO*
[12:06:42] <ssi> the bigger problem I have now is figuring out how to do touchoff sensing
[12:06:56] <ssi> I already 86'd the floating head, and it was much too small to support the new torch mount
[12:07:07] <IchGuckLive> but i dont think it is broken
[12:07:09] <JT-Shop> how does the ohmic thing work?\
[12:07:17] <IchGuckLive> so un huck the 7i76
[12:07:21] <ssi> JT-Shop: well when the torch isn't firing, it's just a dry contact
[12:07:29] <ssi> JT-Shop: that's why I was confused about it
[12:07:31] <IchGuckLive> get a bob and try with a led
[12:07:40] <IchGuckLive> all ports as GPIO
[12:07:59] <ssi> JT-Shop: when the shield cap touches the plate, it completes a circuit to ground
[12:08:01] <IchGuckLive> 5i25 first
[12:08:09] <ssi> JT-Shop: that part works great; it touches off very nicely
[12:08:18] <ssi> JT-Shop: the problem is, when the torch fires, that cap is arc voltage
[12:08:27] <JT-Shop> ah ok
[12:08:29] <ssi> JT-Shop: so you need some sort of voltage isolated io converter
[12:08:43] <mhaberler> ssi: replace /would get done/is done/ - just read up
[12:08:44] <IchGuckLive> ssi: why dident you use the 5/6 pins on the hyperthern only 18V can be there
[12:08:55] <ssi> mhaberler: sweet :)
[12:09:09] <ssi> mhaberler: in that case, I just need to get some free time to figure it out
[12:09:31] <ssi> IchGuckLive: because that doesn't have anything to do whatsoever with initial height sensing
[12:09:33] <LeelooMinai> Quick question. FOr a 3-axis CNC, is this the kit I want for a start? : 7I76-5I25 PLUG-N-GO KIT
[12:09:44] <ssi> LeelooMinai: for stepper, yes
[12:09:45] <XXCoder1> cnc paper cutter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqvgA1P5hWg
[12:09:51] <LeelooMinai> Right, steppers
[12:10:34] <LeelooMinai> There's so many of those different boards they have there, it's a bit confusing
[12:10:53] <ssi> JT-Shop: candcnc has a manual for an ohmic interface product, but I can't find the actual product page or price anywhere
[12:11:05] <CaptHindsight> LeelooMinai: if you're going to use an FPGA for steppers then you can just use preempt_rt
[12:11:19] <JT-Shop> from jim colt "Once the arc has started..there definitely can and will be a variety of stray voltages present on the ohmic contact wire......and if it is connected directly to circuitry that is not protected and filtered to deal with stray voltage...then damage certainly could occur."
[12:11:36] <ssi> JT-Shop: I'm wondering whether I can do something really stupid simple like run that cap wire through a relay which I only engage during probe moves, so it's electrically isolated while torch is firing
[12:11:38] <LeelooMinai> CaptHindsight: Yes, eventually - I don't have all the money for it yet though, so for now I will use parallel port
[12:11:43] <IchGuckLive> LeelooMinai: then only the 5i25 will do the job
[12:11:47] <LeelooMinai> I just plan
[12:11:47] <ssi> JT-Shop: yeah, see I wish I'd known that an hour ago :)
[12:12:05] <JT-Shop> On Hypertherm's industrial height control systems...ohmic contact is sensed before the arc fires, then a high voltage relay (rated for 15 kV) disconnects the ohmic connection during the piercing process. Once the arc is started and stabilized the THC system then monitors the status of the shield in relation to the workpiece to detect for plate collisions, however the circuitry is isolated and filtered to protect from electrical noise.
[12:12:05] <JT-Shop> I would expect that there could be momentary voltages in the range of up to the open circuit voltage (+-300 vdc) in a non high frequency start plasma system, and up to about 10kV in a high frequency start system.
[12:12:06] <JT-Shop> I would not recommend connecting the ohmic contact to unprotected circuitry! The machine that I use in my home shop is a PlasmaCam, and its internal THC system is designed and protected for use with ohmic contact plate sensing.
[12:12:08] <JT-Shop> Jim Colt
[12:12:18] <IchGuckLive> LeelooMinai: it contains 2 full parport plugs
[12:12:20] <CaptHindsight> LeelooMinai: pick your bus PCI or PCIe
[12:12:23] <JT-Shop> the thread http://www.cnczone.com/forums/hypertherm-plasma/119126-hypertherm-powermax45-ohmic-sensor-homing-switch.html
[12:12:44] <ssi> well that pretty well confirms my suspicions :)
[12:12:58] <LeelooMinai> O, hm, they have PCI/PCIe versions too
[12:13:16] <ssi> I wonder what a high voltage relay costs
[12:13:21] <ssi> and whether I can get one at frys today hahah
[12:14:16] <Jymmm> ssi: Ha!
[12:14:24] <Jymmm> ssi: Grainger maybe
[12:14:29] <ssi> grainger is worthless
[12:14:32] <CaptHindsight> http://www.newark.com/cynergy3/dat71215f/relay-15kv-12v-coil/dp/56T0749
[12:14:52] <Jymmm> ssi: No, just expensive =)
[12:14:59] <ssi> expensive for sure
[12:15:18] <ssi> and unless you're trying to do hvac sheet metal, chances are good you can't get anything same day
[12:15:26] <ssi> CaptHindsight: damn, spendy
[12:15:41] <ssi> I wonder how bad the hf start would murder a SSR
[12:15:56] <CaptHindsight> boom
[12:17:38] <LeelooMinai> Hmm... so 6i25 is just PCIe version of 5i25?
[12:17:42] <ssi> yep
[12:18:33] <IchGuckLive> ssi why not a simple eagle plasma thc ok its not cheep but on direct it is best
[12:18:49] <LeelooMinai> It's a bit confusing as they have wrong pictures there I think: http://store.mesanet.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=83_84&product_id=217
[12:18:57] <LeelooMinai> That's a PCI card there
[12:18:59] <CaptHindsight> only like 8 conflicts between ubc3-7i80 and master branch
[12:19:23] <CaptHindsight> LeelooMinai: yes, the 6i25 is the PCIe version
[12:20:12] <CaptHindsight> I have them so it's "verified"
[12:21:03] <CaptHindsight> http://relays-unlimited.com/standard-high-voltage-relays/standard-high-voltage-relays-to-15-kv
[12:21:58] <CaptHindsight> ssi: only 4500 rupies http://in.rsdelivers.com/product/cynergy3/dat72415/pcb-h-v-reed-relay-15kv-24vdc-coil/7121167.aspx
[12:22:57] <ssi> IchGuckLive: I don't know what you're talking about
[12:23:21] <ssi> CaptHindsight: I don't have any rupees :(
[12:23:29] <IchGuckLive> ssi: http://eagleplasma.com/thc.htm
[12:23:48] <IchGuckLive> oh he raised the cost as many uses them
[12:24:06] <ssi> IchGuckLive: I already have a THC, and I fail to see how that one solves my problem
[12:24:09] <CaptHindsight> $50 even in China http://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-15kv-relay.html
[12:24:33] <ssi> CaptHindsight: what do you suppose the failure mode of an SSR would be to overvoltage?
[12:24:46] <IchGuckLive> ssi: it is only ground signal conroled to the mesa
[12:25:06] <IchGuckLive> so no forward faile to the pc
[12:25:11] <CaptHindsight> boom, dielectric breakdown, arcing
[12:25:55] <CaptHindsight> if you get spikes to 5-15KV
[12:26:05] <CaptHindsight> most are rated to maybe 600V
[12:26:06] <ssi> I don't know what the HF start profile actually looks like
[12:26:16] <ssi> the one I have is rated 200V, so it's gonna be overvolted in normal operation
[12:26:22] * JT-Shop wanders off to take a nap
[12:27:42] <IchGuckLive> ssi i work on 80-120V Arc Voltige return
[12:28:05] <ssi> I'm pretty sure you're missing the point of my problem
[12:28:58] <marmite> http://i01.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v1/582777559_1/Free-shipping-New-5V-110V-Max-10A-DC-Motor-Speed-Control-PWM-MACH3-Speed-Control.jpg have anyone here gotten this to work on mach3 peraps?
[12:29:38] <CaptHindsight> ssi: http://www.mouser.com/ds/2/93/SeriesOneDR03-231556.pdf is yours like this?
[12:30:05] <CaptHindsight> Transient Overvoltage [Vpk] 600
[12:30:06] <ssi> no, lemme find it
[12:30:48] <ssi> Dielectric Strength (Input-to-Output Isolation)
[12:30:49] <ssi> 4000 VAC (rms)
[12:30:51] <ssi> http://www.automationdirect.com/static/specs/ssclass6relays.pdf
[12:31:58] <ssi> it might honestly be fine until I can get something more appropriate
[12:32:19] <ssi> I don't think the shield actually sees the arc voltage directly; the shield doesn't touch the nozzle unless it's slagged
[12:33:01] <ssi> I also don't know if the powermax45 has hf start
[12:33:07] <ssi> I imagine it does, which is why it can fire touchless
[12:33:52] <CaptHindsight> ssi: but you're going to have >10KV across the relay contacts (load voltage), that's the section that will die
[12:34:13] <ssi> maybe, that's what I'm trying to find out
[12:34:46] <CaptHindsight> you're not switching it when there is >10KV
[12:35:09] <ssi> no, I'm trying to find out if there is EVER 10kv
[12:35:17] <CaptHindsight> but it will see 10KV on one contact when it's open for the spike to start the plasma
[12:35:48] <ssi> I don't think these machines do hf start
[12:35:52] <ssi> I think they do pilot arc start
[12:36:04] <ssi> "Contact-start technology eliminates high-frequency interference that can damage nearby electronic equipment."
[12:36:19] <CaptHindsight> mini emp
[12:36:35] <CaptHindsight> added benefit
[12:36:53] <CaptHindsight> I should mount one on the back of the truck
[12:38:02] <CaptHindsight> ssi: have a scope and high voltage probe?
[12:38:23] <ssi> no hv probe on hand
[12:38:26] <ssi> can borrow one
[12:39:02] <ssi> but from everything I'm reading, I don't think these machines have hf start
[13:14:10] <XXCoder1> LOL! https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t1.0-9/10437601_638443442907664_1943165662231360764_n.jpg
[13:16:27] <Jymmm> Parachute, $200 extra.
[13:17:18] <Deejay> hrhr
[13:17:28] <XXCoder1> heh
[14:43:35] <Capn_Fish> Does anybody know where I can find the HAL IO hex value <-> BeagleBoneBlack port number mappings? I've got my BBB up and ALMOST running with my CNC mill, but I can't get one of the pins to work. I'm using a Xylotex DB25 cape, and need P8-7 to act as XSTEP, and I just can't figure out what value to put in my "setp [PRUCONF](DRIVER).stepgen.00.steppin" line
[14:44:03] <Capn_Fish> I found all the others here: http://xylotex.netfirms.com/OSCommerce/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=27&products_id=47
[14:44:04] <Capn_Fish> But my machine has a different pinout
[15:16:59] <Tom_itx> Capn_Fish, have you looked thru this: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.emc.devel/9565
[15:17:42] <Capn_Fish> Tom_itx: I have not- will take a look! Thanks!
[15:25:22] <Capn_Fish> Dang, that doesn't seem to help... That seems to give some internal memory address, which I then need to map into HAL somehow
[16:41:50] <Deejay> gn8
[17:10:06] <LeelooMinai> anyone familiar with git? (it's linuxcnc related)
[17:10:31] <LeelooMinai> #git seems to be asleep
[17:16:34] <cradek> LeelooMinai: always go ahead and just ask your real question, no need to ask to ask.
[17:16:52] <LeelooMinai> I knew that
[17:17:07] <cradek> ah, it's easy to forget sometimes
[17:17:26] <LeelooMinai> I thought there's some split going and was testing if anyone is here:)
[17:17:47] <cradek> well there are 111 people in the channel
[17:17:54] <LeelooMinai> Ok, anyways, this is a bit bizzare because I am pretty sure I did it yesterday and it worked fine
[17:18:21] <LeelooMinai> I want to get this patch: https://github.com/machinekit/machinekit/commit/e8d5adb1b9f7cbe6cfb0d41ce6c298a0e42195b4#diff-0
[17:18:58] <LeelooMinai> I issue git format-patch e8d5adb1b9f7cbe6cfb0d41ce6c298a0e42195b4
[17:19:31] <LeelooMinai> And get lots of unrelated patches... Yesterday I got just one 0001-xxx patch with those changes
[17:19:54] <cradek> it was probably at the tip of your branch yesterday
[17:20:33] <LeelooMinai> But isn't the hash identifying it specifically?
[17:20:45] <kfoltman> the hash identifies the revision
[17:20:51] <cradek> sure, but this is how git format-patch works
[17:20:56] <cradek> see man git-format-patch
[17:21:10] <cradek> in particular see "If you want to format only <commit> itself, ..."
[17:21:26] <LeelooMinai> So to get only this specific change, what should I look for?
[17:21:37] <LeelooMinai> A, ok, let me see
[17:21:53] * kfoltman almost had the popcorn ready
[17:21:56] <LeelooMinai> Never really used fit before
[17:22:02] <LeelooMinai> git*
[17:22:26] <cradek> the manpages are a little less bad than the user interface
[17:22:26] <kfoltman> to be fair, git is totally incomprehensible before it's totally straightforward ;)
[17:22:30] <LeelooMinai> I guess yesterday it worked by a chance
[17:22:41] <LeelooMinai> So today I was really surprised
[17:23:05] <kfoltman> LeelooMinai: wait until you discover 'git rebase' :)
[17:23:21] <kfoltman> that's a whole lot of mindfuck
[17:23:52] <LeelooMinai> Right, well, I just need to patch some code - I don't think I will use git for myself
[17:24:25] <kfoltman> LeelooMinai: it's actually not too bad, you just need to get the concepts
[17:25:05] <LeelooMinai> Right, and those concepts would be from a guy that insists c++ is a mistake and everyone should use C:)
[17:25:38] <kfoltman> LeelooMinai: well, hard to disagree with him ;)
[17:25:47] <cradek> git is bad enough that you don't have to resort to ad hominem
[17:26:21] <cradek> it's easy to find something offensive about it. however it seems to be the best way to do software development.
[17:26:48] <kfoltman> LeelooMinai: it only takes a few error messages from boost mpl to convince any reasonable person that c++ is bad for mental health
[17:27:18] <kfoltman> but, anyway, git is not bad
[17:27:55] <LeelooMinai> No, I agree, contorting templates to do all those things is a madness. But a sane subset of C++ is much better way to do things than just C
[17:28:05] <kfoltman> sure
[17:29:14] <kfoltman> anyway, I hated git for about 5 years, now it's my default go-to version control system
[17:31:23] <LeelooMinai> Ok, -1 worked
[17:31:44] <LeelooMinai> Hmm...
[17:32:23] <LeelooMinai> But if this means top commit in that rev identified by hash, cannot this change if some commit is added?
[17:32:44] <LeelooMinai> Unless the rev is fixed at this point?
[17:32:54] <zultron> If you just want to apply the patch, try some variant of this: wget -O - https://github.com/machinekit/machinekit/commit/e8d5adb1b9f7cbe6cfb0d41ce6c298a0e42195b4.patch | git apply -
[17:33:09] <zultron> Yes, when you apply the patch, the commit hash will change.
[17:33:14] <zultron> That's ok.
[17:33:50] <LeelooMinai> No, I mean this patch extraction - it used relative -1 from the top - cannot it be changed by some future commits in that repository?
[17:33:58] <cradek> I wish git am would take a URL directly
[17:34:17] <LeelooMinai> Say tomorrow I use -1 again with that hash - could I get something different?
[17:34:45] <LeelooMinai> Or is the hash/rev "frozen"?
[17:35:25] <cradek> you'd get the same patch tomorrow
[17:35:27] <zultron> Not sure what '-1' means. The commit hash will stay the same in your tree until you rebase or otherwise reapply the patch.
[17:35:42] <LeelooMinai> -1 is commit from a top
[17:35:48] <LeelooMinai> So first one on the top
[17:36:30] <LeelooMinai> Ok, I see, so if revision has a hash already, no one can insert a commit into it really
[17:36:37] <zultron> You mean HEAD? Is that an argument to `git log` or something?
[17:36:45] <cradek> an argument to format-patch
[17:37:09] <LeelooMinai> No, tha man page was telling me that -n is n-th commit for this rev from the last one
[17:38:41] <LeelooMinai> -<n> Prepare patches from the topmost <n> commits
[17:38:48] <LeelooMinai> Hmm, or n topmost ones
[17:39:09] <LeelooMinai> I wonder how would I target specific one then
[17:39:30] <zultron> If you just want to apply the patch, then try something like the command I pasted. Anyway, I don't get what you're trying to do with `git format-patch`.
[17:39:56] <LeelooMinai> I am just applying that patch to linuxcnc git from ShabbyX
[17:40:38] <LeelooMinai> Not sure if this is the best way, but seemed sensible to do
[17:41:30] <LeelooMinai> E, not shabbyX, just normal linuxcnc
[17:51:06] <XXCoder1> ssi: http://cncplasmabuild.com/buildpage12.html
[18:39:51] <ssi> XXCoder1: awesome, that seems to reinforce that these machines aren't HF start
[18:41:32] <zeeshan|3> ssi need your advice
[18:41:36] <ssi> zeeshan|3: ok
[18:41:41] <zeeshan|3> im trying to figure out where the 3.5 thou backlash is coming from
[18:41:53] <zeeshan|3> i know its not the coupler
[18:41:57] <zeeshan|3> (its solid)
[18:42:00] <ssi> remind me what machine this is
[18:42:05] <zeeshan|3> 12x36 lathe
[18:42:08] <ssi> ok
[18:42:11] <ssi> which axis?
[18:42:21] <zeeshan|3> im thinking it might actually be the bearing block support (fixed end)
[18:42:26] <zeeshan|3> both z and x do the same
[18:42:30] <zeeshan|3> z is direct drive, x is 3:1
[18:42:32] <ssi> ballscrew?
[18:42:35] <zeeshan|3> yes
[18:42:55] <ssi> put a DTI on the toolpost and grab the whole carriage and move it back and forth by hand
[18:42:59] <ssi> can you make it move the 3.5 thou?
[18:43:04] <zeeshan|3> i did this:
[18:43:16] <zeeshan|3> i pushed the axis in one direction to remove any backlash
[18:43:24] <zeeshan|3> then i zero'ed the 0.0005 indicator to 0
[18:43:35] <zeeshan|3> and then with one hard pull i moved the axis in the other direction
[18:43:43] <zeeshan|3> i measure 3.5
[18:43:48] <zeeshan|3> (thou)
[18:43:51] <ssi> yeah
[18:43:57] <zeeshan|3> and its a consistent measurement, no matter where i do it on the screw
[18:44:02] <ssi> that's probably the screw moving back and forth in the bearings
[18:44:04] <SpeedEvil> If you move it in the same direction - what's the movement?
[18:44:17] <SpeedEvil> That is - how much of this is flex, not backlash
[18:44:30] <zeeshan|3> SpeedEvil: in the beginning when i'm setting the dial to 0
[18:44:44] <ssi> if it's the screw moving it shouldn't take a hard pull
[18:44:46] <zeeshan|3> i can force it in the same direction and see 1 thou deflection
[18:44:51] <ssi> if you're really wailing on it, you may well be flexing the machin
[18:44:51] <zeeshan|3> but it always returns to 0
[18:44:57] <zeeshan|3> (this is me giving about 100lb of force or so)
[18:44:57] <zeeshan|3> sec.
[18:44:58] <SpeedEvil> So, 2.5, not 3.5 backlash
[18:45:15] <ssi> if you can pull it to the other side and it reads 3.5, and let it go and it stays at 3.5, that's backlash from the screw moving
[18:45:31] <zeeshan|3> no speed evil its 3.5
[18:45:39] <zeeshan|3> ssi exactly, it stays at 3.5
[18:45:44] <ssi> zeeshan|3: belleville washers
[18:45:45] <ssi> http://www.mcmaster.com/#standard-disc-springs/=siwdgj
[18:46:48] <ssi> better option would be to have the screw fixed at one end preloaded with a matched pair of AC bearings and lightly supported at the other end
[18:46:48] <zeeshan|3> i'm going to redo the test today to see if it still measures 3.5 thou
[18:46:53] <ssi> but chances are that's a lot more work
[18:47:10] <ssi> to be perfectly honest, it probably won't affect your work any if you always turn right hand
[18:47:22] <zeeshan|3> haha
[18:47:58] <ssi> think about it, all lathe tools are loading the X rearward, and all right hand tools load Z rightward
[18:48:15] <zeeshan|3> yea you're alwayus travelling in the same direction
[18:48:27] <zeeshan|3> even with arcs
[18:48:34] <ssi> which is why manual machinists are taught to always turn the wheels the same direction
[18:48:38] <ssi> backlash isn't a factor
[18:48:51] <zeeshan|3> but here's a scenario
[18:48:59] <zeeshan|3> you're placing o-ring grooves
[18:49:10] <zeeshan|3> if you dont go back to original start position, and move directly to groove
[18:49:15] <zeeshan|3> it'll be out by 3.5 thou
[18:49:23] <zeeshan|3> which i think is pretty acceptable :P
[18:50:09] <ssi> only if you travel backward to the groove
[18:50:14] <ssi> if you travel forward to it, shouldn't be an issue
[18:50:25] <ssi> at any rate, just try shimming your bearings to take up as much of it as you can
[18:51:07] <zeeshan|3> ssi you really think its the actual bearings in the fixed end?
[18:51:13] <zeeshan|3> and not the actual ball nut
[18:51:38] <ssi> it could be either the ballnut or the way the ballnut is mounted
[18:51:50] <zeeshan|3> i think im gonna throw a dial indiactor at the end of the ball screw
[18:51:52] <zeeshan|3> and see if it moves
[18:51:55] <ssi> but 3.5 thou is a LOT of backlash for even a cheap ballnut
[18:56:01] <ssi> ok I've been up 36 hours and it's time for me to sleep
[18:56:02] <ssi> :)
[18:56:12] <zeeshan|3> holy shit dude
[18:56:15] <zeeshan|3> =D
[18:56:17] <zeeshan|3> sleep!
[18:56:22] <ssi> sometimes you just gotta play through the pain!
[18:56:35] <ssi> I got the whole plasma machine sorted out and ready to test cut
[18:56:42] <zeeshan|3> nice!
[18:56:42] <ssi> and then nuked it through sheer ignorance
[18:56:46] <zeeshan|3> =/
[18:57:10] <ssi> so i guess tomorrow I'll regroup and order more parts
[18:58:39] <SpeedEvil> ssi: ignorance - or tiredness
[18:58:45] <SpeedEvil> not sleeping makes you stupid
[18:58:53] <SpeedEvil> And you don't realise how bad at the time
[19:37:36] <ssi> SpeedEvil: nah that decision was made long before the tiredness, I just didn't know any better. Ignorance was the right word.
[19:38:21] <SpeedEvil> ah
[19:49:39] <XXCoder1> hey ssi dont really know what you meant but glad it helped!
[19:50:05] <ssi> XXCoder1: I need to figure out how to decouple the ohmic sensor line from my IO when I'm not performing a touchoff
[19:50:39] <ssi> XXCoder1: jim colt has some info out there talking about how they use 15kv rated relays in their industrial THCs for that, and I was worried about whether I need to spring for a hv relay
[19:51:02] <ssi> but that's for machines with HF start, which do 10-12kv @ 10-20khz high voltage high frequency for arc starting
[19:51:11] <ssi> the pmax45/65/85 uses a pilot arc that shouldn't see such high voltages
[19:51:44] <ssi> the page you linked was more confirmation that they're non-HF machines
[19:51:46] <SpeedEvil> Several really high voltage resistors, and a buffer opamp
[19:52:07] <ssi> SpeedEvil: nah it's easier than that, just run the line through a relay that gets energized when I need to make a probe
[19:52:17] <ssi> you only need the ohmic sensing when the torch isn't firing
[19:52:53] <ssi> without HF start, it should see 400VDC or so, which is no big deal
[19:53:12] <ssi> and even that isn't directly 400V, it's just whatever couples across the tiny gap between the shield and the nozzle
[19:53:26] <ssi> enough to kill a mesa card apparently :)
[19:53:28] <XXCoder1> SpeedEvil: I linked him this link http://cncplasmabuild.com/buildpage12.html
[19:53:29] <SpeedEvil> That will typically e everal thousand volts
[19:53:31] <SpeedEvil> AIUI
[19:53:41] <XXCoder1> if you wanted context heh
[19:54:03] <SpeedEvil> ah
[19:54:16] <SpeedEvil> I should read backscroll
[19:54:26] <ssi> and actually since the cap isn't directly connected to the nozzle/electrode, I wonder if you can just use a bleeder resistor at the relay
[19:54:33] <ssi> that should keep the potential down
[19:57:17] * LeelooMinai finished playing with linuxcnc installation - took only 3 days
[19:57:31] <LeelooMinai> And I am back to what I did originaly and took me 10 minutes:/
[19:58:54] <tjtr33> dang i hate sizing motors by math http://basctest.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/fm.jpg?w=590
[19:59:28] <ssi> lol
[20:01:21] <XXCoder1> basic algbera
[20:01:52] <LeelooMinai> Basic algebra is 2+2 = 10:)
[20:01:58] <zeeshan|3> tjtr33: haha
[20:02:13] <zeeshan|3> ssi sleep dude
[20:02:24] <XXCoder1> lol
[20:02:35] <zeeshan|3> tjtr33: what is that formula for?
[20:02:43] <zeeshan|3> almost looks like the centroid furmula
[20:04:53] <tjtr33> load inertia
[20:05:04] <zeeshan|3> i was close!
[20:05:32] <LeelooMinai> Hmm... is there a convention for what is X and what is Y axis? I look at some pics and I don't like them because I see X axis as I would look at the machine from the front
[20:05:51] <zeeshan|3> what type of machine
[20:06:02] <LeelooMinai> cnc mill kind-of machine
[20:06:33] <LeelooMinai> I just googled and found a def that X axis is the longest one
[20:06:38] <zeeshan|3> up down is Z right left is X
[20:06:43] <zeeshan|3> and Y is towards you and away
[20:06:46] <LeelooMinai> BUt I guess I don't have to stick to it when configuring linuxcnc
[20:07:20] <zeeshan|3> yep, but when you make programs using cam software, they will follow that convention
[20:07:29] <zeeshan|3> you can always change em :p
[20:07:39] <tjtr33> long is usually X on cartesian mill/ operator usually faces X as his left(X-) to right(X+) ( these are not always true, but common )
[20:08:13] <LeelooMinai> That's how I like it too - having x running from left to right - same as I would look at some x-y graph
[20:08:23] <tjtr33> put left hand out point thumb up forefinger fwd, middle finger right. tips are the + dirs ( ""left hand rule"")
[20:09:05] <LeelooMinai> Yes, that's "normal" - like on math graphs
[20:09:08] <Valen> tjtr33: handy
[20:19:04] <LeelooMinai> Hmm
[20:19:40] <LeelooMinai> When I test axis in the stepconf wizard, it works fine, but insiide the axis window it sounds like a tractor and goes very slow
[20:19:57] <LeelooMinai> Is this because of some too slow acceleration value I used (I left default there)?
[20:20:32] <XXCoder1> quick question is bosch trim router (colt brand) good for cnc router?
[20:20:41] <XXCoder1> keep in mind my cnc router is very small)
[20:21:25] <LeelooMinai> Does that look sane? http://i.imgur.com/gXypfOV.png
[20:22:31] <LeelooMinai> When I "test this axis" it sounds good (like a buzzing fly a gues)
[20:23:01] <LeelooMinai> Not sure why the axis program then is not sounding like that with manual test
[20:23:20] <XXCoder1> do manual have seperate config?
[20:23:42] <LeelooMinai> I thought that what that stepconf generates will be used then by the axis
[20:24:12] <LeelooMinai> But axis just moves like a snail those steppers
[20:25:26] <LeelooMinai> Latency test does not look wrong too http://i.imgur.com/AX2ijLM.png
[20:31:08] <XXCoder1> dunno
[20:31:54] <LeelooMinai> This is the hal file: http://pastebin.com/zuCNgjce
[20:32:18] <LeelooMinai> setp stepgen.0.steplen 1 <- was this supposed to be just one?
[20:32:55] <XXCoder1> HOLY FUCK http://www.ebay.com/itm/Custom-Nema23-Motor-Mount-FK12-Fixed-End-Ballscrew-Support-CNC-Router-DIY-Kit-/221452552334?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item338f99c88e
[20:33:00] <XXCoder1> insanely large
[20:33:09] <XXCoder1> 125 bucks for one mount hah
[20:38:27] <XXCoder1> I like this. quite beefy http://www.amazon.com/Nema-23-stepping-motor-mount/dp/B00FHBFQAG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1403486397&sr=8-1&keywords=nema+23+mount
[20:59:24] <XXCoder1> my motors is 56mm apparently
[20:59:33] <XXCoder1> which makes it MUCH harder to find mounts
[21:00:03] <jdh> you have oddball sized steppers?
[21:04:27] <XXCoder1> its nema 23
[21:04:34] <XXCoder1> but there apparently is 56mm and 57mm
[21:04:41] <XXCoder1> I checked mine, its 56mm
[21:04:59] <XXCoder1> dunno if bolts holes is same place
[21:05:01] <jdh> I'm thinking your motor will fit most any mount
[21:05:15] <XXCoder1> thats what I thought too
[21:05:28] <XXCoder1> odd thing though amazon lost a LOT of mounts for nema23
[21:05:37] <XXCoder1> they used to have lots choices but now..
[21:05:55] <XXCoder1> http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=a9_asi_1?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3A%22nema+23%22+mount&keywords=%22nema+23%22+mount&ie=UTF8&qid=1403487963
[21:05:58] <XXCoder1> onlky two
[21:07:21] <XXCoder1> it says 57mm MAX https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-POdRQgF0TS0/UWAlGLn_SYI/AAAAAAAAESc/YHPnAO0pKQY/w1122-h599-no/446610665_094.jpg
[21:08:27] <XXCoder1> it checks out
[21:08:48] <XXCoder1> hole to hole IS 47.14 approx (my caliper is awful)
[21:17:01] <LeelooMinai> Is the 2.5 stepconf considered reliable?
[21:17:21] <LeelooMinai> I mean the wizard
[21:17:51] <LeelooMinai> Cannot get it to generate configuration that works
[21:18:04] <XXCoder1> jdh: got good amazon dial indictor?
[21:18:11] <XXCoder1> I definitely will evemually need one lol
[21:19:00] <jdh> nope, I use cheap chinese ones
[21:19:10] <XXCoder1> where did buy?
[21:19:16] <LeelooMinai> I have this one: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/0-25-4mm-1-x0-001mm-digital-indicator-digital-dial-indicator-electronic-indicator-25-4mm/1736640981.html
[21:19:21] <jdh> HF afair
[21:19:41] <XXCoder1> thinking bout http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NPPBVK/ref=pd_luc_sim_02_01_t_lh?ie=UTF8&psc=1
[21:19:58] <jdh> that's not a useful indicator for me.
[21:20:14] <XXCoder1> why?
[21:20:28] <jdh> I have a mituyo digital that was given to me but I have never found a use for it.
[21:20:36] <jdh> I meant the digital one in the ali link he pasted.
[21:20:42] <XXCoder1> oh lol
[21:21:07] * LeelooMinai ponders why everyone assumes she is a he
[21:21:20] <jdh> because it is the interwebbes.
[21:21:31] <LeelooMinai> inter-what?
[21:21:36] <jdh> everyone is a he, especially the ones claiming to be female
[21:21:39] <XXCoder1> male tend to be default gender unfortunately. I try to say "person" or something
[21:22:09] <LeelooMinai> It's kind of dumb though assuming there are no females on IRC
[21:22:19] <jdh> sorry.,
[21:22:22] <LeelooMinai> Here is my photo stream and I am there too: https://www.flickr.com/photos/100017731@N03/
[21:23:34] <LeelooMinai> Hmm, at least my axis move - that't good I guess
[21:23:36] <Jymmm> LeelooMinai: IRC is not anotomically correct
[21:24:19] <jdh> yep. Obviously female
[21:24:26] <LeelooMinai> I was on irc 20 years ago - thought that in the meantime it will get a bit better...
[21:24:44] <Jymmm> LeelooMinai: No it's not.
[21:25:12] <jdh> the gingerbread man and the solder fume sucker give it away
[21:25:18] <XXCoder1> LeelooMinai: cheap version of your dial http://www.amazon.com/AccuRemote-ELECTRONIC-INDICATOR-Functions-conversion/dp/B006YD7G36/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1403489198&sr=8-14&keywords=dial+indicator
[21:25:27] <LeelooMinai> Then I got back and sat in ##electronics for past wo years, but I see all chammels are like that
[21:25:31] <jdh> do you find your digital indicator useful?
[21:25:32] <XXCoder1> lee me too, and no, its not any better
[21:25:46] <Jymmm> LeelooMinai: There are far more transgender women on irc than there are born females, make them even rarer.
[21:25:52] <LeelooMinai> XXCoder1: Well, the one I have climes 0.001mm
[21:25:57] <LeelooMinai> claims*
[21:26:00] <XXCoder1> cool
[21:26:16] <XXCoder1> I just want one thats ok on accuracy yet are cheapo
[21:26:20] <Jymmm> LeelooMinai: Maybe if you stuck around, it might have.
[21:26:24] <XXCoder1> I dont need fancy one
[21:26:36] <XXCoder1> Jymmm: nah it wont. theres so many channels
[21:26:42] <LeelooMinai> XXCoder1: There's a lot cheap non-digital ones
[21:26:47] <XXCoder1> it needs culture change
[21:27:01] <XXCoder1> yeah trying to see if theres ok one at under 20 buck
[21:27:03] <LeelooMinai> They may be even better in some cases as you can see the needle moving better
[21:27:17] <jdh> the moving needle is what I want to see.
[21:27:37] <LeelooMinai> It's like with analog clocks - some prefer them to digital:)
[21:28:02] <XXCoder1> I hate digital clocks if they glow
[21:28:09] <XXCoder1> non glowy ones is fine
[21:28:21] <LeelooMinai> Well, in the night that has a plus...
[21:28:40] <XXCoder1> not for me
[21:28:52] <zee-Lathe> how do you dtermine what 'max_acceleration'
[21:28:59] <zee-Lathe> value should be in the ini for my stepper
[21:29:10] <XXCoder1> my eyes is frankly sensive, I have to brown tape over my alarm clock twice to get it down to reasonable readable level and let me sleep
[21:29:20] <LeelooMinai> Right, I should get back to getting this stepping to work
[21:29:26] <jdh> Z: drop it until it quits stalling
[21:29:45] <zee-Lathe> ??
[21:29:48] <LeelooMinai> Not sure what is going on - the axis test works and then the wizard generates config that behaves differently
[21:29:50] <zee-Lathe> what do you mean drop it
[21:30:11] <XXCoder1> drop to ground. jk
[21:30:12] <jdh> did you do the stepconf wiz thing?
[21:30:29] <LeelooMinai> I checked out 2.5 branch - thought it should be stable
[21:30:38] <zee-Lathe> yea i did
[21:30:56] <zee-Lathe> oh its in the manual
[21:30:58] * zee-Lathe reads
[21:31:02] <jdh> and tested the axes with various accel/speed values?
[21:31:04] <zee-Lathe> RTFM ZEE RTFM ZEE!
[21:31:04] <zee-Lathe> :D
[21:31:09] <zee-Lathe> no, i just made some up
[21:31:11] <zee-Lathe> and stuck with it
[21:31:39] <LeelooMinai> Can I diagnose it inside the axis somehow? Find out why the steppers move so slow?
[21:32:37] <jdh> what is your base thread?
[21:32:54] <zee-Lathe> is that in the ini?
[21:33:18] <zee-Lathe> base period is 41010
[21:33:30] <Jymmm> LeelooMinai: Honeslty, I don't care. Even if I use 'Dude' that is in a gender neutral role. Actually I do not even lie when ppl bring up gender on irc, it's like they are forcing something upon others.
[21:33:42] <zee-Lathe> currently i set velociy to 1in/s
[21:33:43] <zee-Lathe> er
[21:33:44] <zee-Lathe> 2in/s
[21:33:59] <zee-Lathe> so thats 120ipm. im gonna decrease to 100 ipm, just cause it feels safer :P
[21:35:03] <tjtr33> LeelooMinai, stepper trblshooting: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/motion/tweaking_steppers.html and more technical desc of influences http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Stepper_Motor_Speed_Limitations
[21:35:16] <jdh> cool
[21:35:48] <LeelooMinai> tjtr33: I will read that, but what is strange that stepper move fine inside the "test axis" button dialog...
[21:35:52] <zee-Lathe> jdh is that a good value or not
[21:35:52] <zee-Lathe> :D
[21:35:54] <zee-Lathe> the 41010
[21:36:13] <LeelooMinai> SO if that wizards moves them fine, I don't get why it cannot just pass that info to the axis program properly
[21:36:36] <jdh> yeah
[21:36:43] <tjtr33> LeelooMinai, you talking bout the config building tool? make sure you run _that_ config
[21:37:17] <tjtr33> resave it and note the name
[21:37:25] <LeelooMinai> tjtr33: The stepconf wizard - or stepgen wizard - the one that is supposed to be run at the beginning I assume
[21:37:49] <LeelooMinai> And it generated a congfig and a shortcut to run it
[21:37:53] <zee-Lathe> so if i have my axis at 100 ipm
[21:37:54] <XXCoder1> not bad http://www.amazon.com/Steelex-D1056-Dial-Indicator-001/dp/B00347A51A/ref=sr_1_79?ie=UTF8&qid=1403489706&sr=8-79&keywords=dial+indicator
[21:37:57] <tjtr33> yes, it saves a config file. then you run linuxcnc and pick a config. pick what you built
[21:37:57] <zee-Lathe> whats a good accel value?
[21:38:17] <tjtr33> oh, if you run the shortcut, check your override sliders
[21:38:18] <LeelooMinai> tjtr33: It generated a shortcut on the desktop that loads it automatically
[21:38:19] <jdh> there is no good single number
[21:38:26] <zee-Lathe> gimme something to start with
[21:38:36] <LeelooMinai> tjtr33: override sliders?
[21:38:37] <zee-Lathe> its at 3.0 in/s^2
[21:38:38] <zee-Lathe> right now
[21:38:44] <jdh> 25
[21:38:59] <zee-Lathe> 25!?!?!
[21:39:00] <zee-Lathe> damn
[21:39:04] <jdh> or, run stepconf and play with it
[21:39:22] <jdh> 25 is probably too high
[21:39:24] <XXCoder1> dammit whats the thing that connects motor to shift called? clamp?
[21:39:31] <jdh> coupler
[21:39:32] <tjtr33> coupler
[21:39:37] <XXCoder1> thanks
[21:39:37] <tjtr33> coke on you
[21:39:57] <LeelooMinai> I set up origin to o and limits to -200mm +200mm on X Y
[21:40:49] <zee-Lathe> okay i changed it to 10 from 3in/s
[21:40:49] <zee-Lathe> 3in/s^2 and now theres no ramping up
[21:40:49] <zee-Lathe> its almost instant
[21:40:57] <LeelooMinai> The stepper moves th axis but super-slow - takes maybe 30 secs to move 5mm
[21:41:32] <jdh> how fast does it say it is moving
[21:43:13] <tjtr33> look at the 3 sliders , are they choking your speed? http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/gui/images/axis-2.5.png
[21:43:35] <zee-Lathe> okay i found the limit
[21:43:36] <zee-Lathe> lol
[21:43:36] <zee-Lathe> 30 in/s
[21:43:36] <zee-Lathe> ^2
[21:43:40] <tjtr33> yes as jdh says, theres an on screen speed display _while_ you move
[21:43:46] <LeelooMinai> tjtr33: Ah... yes, the did
[21:43:48] <LeelooMinai> thx
[21:43:49] <zee-Lathe> i dunno, i cant test in step conf
[21:43:52] <LeelooMinai> Now it moves fast
[21:43:54] <zee-Lathe> cause my charge pump is off lol
[21:46:01] <tjtr33> cool!
[21:46:16] <zee-Lathe> okay last question!
[21:46:17] <zee-Lathe> in my ini file,. when i add backlash compesnation
[21:46:24] <zee-Lathe> how do i stop it from being overwritten when i run stepconf
[21:46:27] <tjtr33> nice machine build too
[21:46:44] <jdh> quit using stepconf
[21:46:53] <XXCoder1> this is cheap http://www.ebay.com/itm/STEPPER-MOTOR-MOUNT-NEMA23-FOR-HOMEMADE-CNC-ROUTER-/160379861560?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_210&hash=item2557627a38
[21:46:59] <XXCoder1> but probably twists all over
[21:47:11] <zee-Lathe> jdh but its so fast
[21:47:11] <zee-Lathe> !
[21:47:34] <LeelooMinai> plastic mount - scary:)
[21:47:38] <XXCoder1> indeed
[21:47:38] <tjtr33> its plastic!
[21:47:50] <jdh> I have an entire router made of plastic (same guy)
[21:48:01] <zee-Lathe> lets se if this backlash compesnation works
[21:48:15] <XXCoder1> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Top-quality-NEMA-23-Stepper-Servo-Motor-Mount-Bracket-for-CNC-Router-Mill-/281337075844?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item4180ff1884&vxp=mtr
[21:48:35] <LeelooMinai> I guess a plastic router could route in styrofoam
[21:48:42] <XXCoder1> sigh pretty expensive.
[21:48:52] <tjtr33> paper scissors stone
[21:49:05] <XXCoder1> I can skip X axis since it will have 4x4 wood front I can mount motor to
[21:49:07] <tjtr33> not a way to make a machine tool
[21:49:11] <XXCoder1> but Y axis not so much
[21:49:20] <jdh> it's not a machine tool. It's a cheapass router
[21:49:35] <XXCoder1> but then I can mount it on wood there too. Only Z is serious problemic
[21:49:38] <jdh> (mine that is)
[21:50:21] <XXCoder1> any of you need 6.35 mm to 12mm couplers?
[21:58:07] <Tom_itx> 6.35 must be 1/4"
[21:58:46] <LeelooMinai> What is a reasonable speed for a cnc like that? I mean, currently it all calculated to about 60mm/min max - isn't that a bit slow? It's like 1mm/sec...
[21:59:57] <XXCoder1> Tom_itx: it is
[22:00:14] <XXCoder1> and I need 6.35mm to 10mm and not 12mm. it was my mistake
[22:00:22] <Tom_itx> mmm
[22:00:31] <zee-Lathe> wooohoooo
[22:00:51] <zee-Lathe> LeelooMinai, for a plasma
[22:00:53] <zee-Lathe> you want a lot!
[22:01:19] <LeelooMinai> ok, I think I left those defaults there for speed and they may not be good
[22:01:51] <XXCoder1> Tom_itx: want any? I can offer em for less than what I bought em for
[22:02:22] <XXCoder1> guess zee finally got lathe to work well
[22:02:28] <XXCoder1> zeeshan|3: right?
[22:03:47] <LeelooMinai> O, that's nice - I increased the speed to 10mm/s and now it sounds like some s-f robot, not a tractor
[22:04:38] <LeelooMinai> If I overdo that value, can something, hmm, destructive happen?
[22:05:42] <Jymmm> of course.
[22:06:09] <Jymmm> just go gradually
[22:06:29] <LeelooMinai> I am wondering - maybe the driver will not allow for currents that would destroy the steppers
[22:06:34] <Tom_itx> Jymmm, what'd you find out on your laser?
[22:06:43] <Tom_itx> on the 24" limits
[22:07:09] <Jymmm> Tom_itx: Others in the know are saying I got a bum laser and let the mfg deal with and replace it.
[22:07:37] <Tom_itx> for the money i probably would too
[22:07:56] <Jymmm> Tom_itx: I have emails with photos into the mfr and rep.
[22:12:44] <XXCoder1> lol I am an smartass sometimes. amazon I upgraded caliper to better one because it costs more to pay for shipping with other one
[22:13:40] <LeelooMinai> XXCoder1: Which ones did you get?
[22:13:55] <XXCoder1> not final decision yet but http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005SY2NI0/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2FYHGC4NSM6WF
[22:14:09] <XXCoder1> one I got for $8 sucks so hard
[22:14:32] <XXCoder1> its almost whole mm off, so I have to constantly add 1 mm to everything I check
[22:14:43] <LeelooMinai> Caliper I prefer in digital version actually
[22:15:11] <LeelooMinai> Because you just measure with it and read the value, not like with indicator where you observe it
[22:15:29] <LeelooMinai> as it changes
[22:16:02] <XXCoder1> problem with that is that those is almost always has bad reviews or pricy
[22:16:24] <LeelooMinai> I have one from ali for 3 years now and it's my favourite tool probably
[22:16:51] <LeelooMinai> I use it a lot
[22:17:11] <LeelooMinai> http://www.aliexpress.com/item/FRS1021-150-Free-shipping-150mm-6-Digital-CALIPER-VERNIER-GAUGE-MICROMETER-Stainless-Steel-with-perfect-package/1781637577.html?s=p
[22:17:16] <LeelooMinai> ^ something similar
[22:17:53] <XXCoder1> oh hey cheaper couplers at aliexpress roo
[22:17:58] <XXCoder1> 5.44 bucks
[22:18:02] <LeelooMinai> They are not bad actually - CHinese need those good to rip-off dimensions for their clones:)
[22:18:58] <XXCoder1> http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Precision-Tool-0-01mm-Accuracy-Measurement-Instrument-Dial-Indicator-Gauge/1914609255.html
[22:19:17] <XXCoder1> its in mm though
[22:19:37] <LeelooMinai> I buy a lot of stuff on ali. I also bought there digital caliper-like slides for all three axis
[22:19:54] <LeelooMinai> I installed them like this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/100017731@N03/14215648455/
[22:20:07] <zeeshan|3> XXCoder1: yes man
[22:20:11] <LeelooMinai> They are 0.01mm only, but pretty cheap - I think $30 per one
[22:20:27] <zeeshan|3> with backlash comepsnation its moving where i want it to
[22:20:36] <XXCoder1> zee nice
[22:22:01] <LeelooMinai> Can someone give me some example value they have for max velocity on a stepper-based machine?
[22:24:12] <zeeshan|3> LeelooMinai: i have 1.66666 in/s
[22:24:13] <zeeshan|3> right now
[22:24:34] <zeeshan|3> it can be faster, but i'm not running some crazy production machine
[22:24:46] <LeelooMinai> Hmm, I tired 50mm/s - that's similar - seems to work
[22:25:08] <LeelooMinai> I guess for now I will leave it - can always play with those later
[22:25:20] <LeelooMinai> Now I have to, hmm, I guess make it home somehow
[22:25:52] <LeelooMinai> I have it wired with two NC switches in series per one axis
[22:26:08] <XXCoder1> LeelooMinai: so you bought exactly this? http://www.aliexpress.com/item/FRS1021-150-Free-shipping-150mm-6-Digital-CALIPER-VERNIER-GAUGE-MICROMETER-Stainless-Steel-with-perfect-package/1781637577.html?s=p
[22:26:13] <LeelooMinai> But I don't have dedicated home switches or anything - had no more inputs anyways
[22:26:25] <zeeshan|3> LeelooMinai: from my understanding of it
[22:26:31] <zeeshan|3> you only need to home to make your 'soft limits' work
[22:26:49] <zeeshan|3> it defines your machine's work space
[22:26:54] <LeelooMinai> XXCoder1: Not sure if exactly exactly, but I think it's almost identical - they probably use the same parts for most of them there
[22:27:01] <XXCoder1> ok
[22:27:08] <XXCoder1> 53 bucks to 34 bucks
[22:27:14] <XXCoder1> you saved me almost 20 bucks
[22:27:29] <LeelooMinai> I saved myself thousands over past 3 years:)
[22:27:29] <CaptHindsight> http://ibin.co/1Qrr32wGDQtb fish tank depth checker with touch probe
[22:27:42] <LeelooMinai> I am into electronics and I buy tons of stuff from there
[22:27:49] <slacko186192> hey, I have never used Cnc. Is it possible to just upload a cad file to a cnc machine and away it goes, or is there a lot of tweaking and hacking involved everytime you make something/
[22:28:07] <zeeshan|3> lol what
[22:28:15] <LeelooMinai> slacko186192: I am pretty sure it is a bit more involved than that:)
[22:28:31] <LeelooMinai> Unless you have AI software or something
[22:28:50] <slacko186192> It seems like by now someone would have figured it out.
[22:29:00] <XXCoder1> lee nice
[22:29:12] <LeelooMinai> slacko186192: They did - like those replicator machines in Star Trek:)
[22:29:34] <slacko186192> anyone know of a video anywhere that shows someone making a cube in cad and then continuting on to do everything on cnc until its done? a walkthrough?
[22:29:35] <mozmck1> LeelooMinai: asking for a max velocity on a stepper-based machine is like asking what size engines people have on their boats/ships!
[22:30:07] <LeelooMinai> mozmck1: I realize that, but since I just moved mu cnc for the first time, I need some approximate values, so I don't do something stupid
[22:30:08] <CaptHindsight> slacko186192: ever use a sewing machine?
[22:30:14] <mozmck1> could be anywhere from .5 hp to 5000000 hp!
[22:30:29] <slacko186192> yes
[22:31:11] <slacko186192> there are very expensive fully automated sewing machines where you select a pattern and size and load a roll of fabric and it will crank out a pair of pants for you.
[22:31:26] <LeelooMinai> Hmm... cannot I somehow "teach" that axis ui how to home by telling it to just move all axis to limit switches and make middle of them the 0,0,0 point?
[22:31:27] <slacko186192> should not be much different with cnc
[22:31:52] <CaptHindsight> well it will cut the patterns out
[22:32:03] <mozmck1> LeelooMinai: It will depend on the machine. I have mine set at 180 in/min, others at 600 in/min. Start with a low value and see how high you can move it.
[22:32:08] <XXCoder1> sewing machine is very standardized
[22:32:11] <XXCoder1> cncs not so much
[22:32:24] <zeeshan|3> LeelooMinai: i was dealing with homing yesterday
[22:32:27] <XXCoder1> it ranges from TINY cncs to ones that could craft you a car
[22:32:35] <XXCoder1> and even larger
[22:32:40] <LeelooMinai> 10 in / sec sounds fast...
[22:32:43] <mozmck1> A sewing machine is also working with flat material of standard dimensions.
[22:32:56] <zeeshan|3> LeelooMinai: say you're touching all your homing switches, that will give you your machine origin.
[22:33:19] <zeeshan|3> which i think its only good for determining the maximum limits your axis should travel.
[22:33:24] <zeeshan|3> (aka machine envelope)
[22:33:25] <LeelooMinai> zeeshan|3: I want home to be in the middle of XY
[22:33:29] <zeeshan|3> you can do that.
[22:33:37] <zeeshan|3> but in stepconf
[22:33:45] <XXCoder1> LeelooMinai: what does it mean "buy all from this seller"
[22:33:45] <zeeshan|3> you'll define the x limit for example as -6 and 6 inches
[22:33:51] <mozmck1> 10 in/sec is fast, but for plasma cutting it's nice for rapids.
[22:34:13] <slacko186192> the material, spindle speed, horsepower, bit profile, and bit material will all come into play.
[22:34:15] <LeelooMinai> XXCoder1: I think if you put more than one item from the seller in the basket you can checkout them all - not 100% sure though
[22:34:34] <zeeshan|3> but what im trying to say is your home limit switches, no matter where they are only define your 'machine movement space'
[22:34:42] <XXCoder1> oh I has 4 items from 4 sellers
[22:34:55] <zeeshan|3> ie the origin of your machine isn't the same origin as your work piece
[22:35:03] <slacko186192> If you want speed, machine a wax positive, use it to caste a ceramic mold, then caste the item you want.
[22:35:30] <slacko186192> ... for 3d stuff.
[22:35:35] <XXCoder1> LeelooMinai: ahh its checkout for specific seller. theres aklso "buy all" for all at once
[22:35:39] <LeelooMinai> Ok, so how do I tell the machine to move until it hits a stop switch?
[22:35:46] <LeelooMinai> XXCoder1: yes
[22:36:02] <slacko186192> so if you have a cad file of a cube, what all do you have to do to cnc machine it?
[22:36:12] <zeeshan|3> LeelooMinai: you should read this page
[22:36:18] <zeeshan|3> http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/config/ini_homing.html
[22:36:20] <zeeshan|3> it talks about that
[22:36:43] <LeelooMinai> I read that I believe, but I don't have dedicated home switches
[22:36:59] <zeeshan|3> then how are you planning to home?
[22:37:11] <mozmck1> slacko186192: you have to convert it to gcode - usually using CAM software which allows you to define the material size, bit size, length, material, cutting speeds and feeds, coolant, etc.
[22:37:26] <LeelooMinai> Well, I have 6 limit switches
[22:37:35] <LeelooMinai> Cannot I just use those?
[22:38:21] <zeeshan|3> depends on how you wire em
[22:38:38] <LeelooMinai> I have two per aaxis nc in series
[22:38:57] <LeelooMinai> And I have chosen Both X, Both Y, Both Z for inputs
[22:39:00] <mozmck1> If the limit switches are each on a separate input, you should be able to use some for home switches as well as limits.
[22:39:18] <CaptHindsight> http://ibin.co/1Qrr32wGDQtb anyone have s source for telescoping masts like the one in this pic? carbon fiber or aluminum ~1-2" dia. with ~12" sections
[22:39:18] <XXCoder1> also buying http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Hot-selling-40X-25mm-POWER-JEWELER-LOUPE-LED-LOOP-MAGNIFIER-MAGNIFING-GLASS-LIGHTED/792791677.html because its so hard to read some of lego part #s
[22:39:45] <mozmck1> If they are all in series to one input then I don't know.
[22:40:05] <LeelooMinai> Hmm, when I hit "home axis" othing happens
[22:40:37] <LeelooMinai> Because it thinks it's already homed at 0,0,0
[22:40:45] <mozmck1> CaptHindsight: looks like you get to make some interesting machines.
[22:40:57] <LeelooMinai> How do I do "forced homing" with limit switches?
[22:41:34] <mozmck1> I'm rusty on the setup now, but you will have to have the switches setup as home switches in the INI or hal files.
[22:42:14] <LeelooMinai> Ok, I will run the wizard again - maybe I missed that
[22:43:22] <LeelooMinai> A, I see - there are Both Limit + Home options
[22:44:23] <CaptHindsight> mozmck1: that one just lifts a 4kg load from tank to tank at counter height ~3ft (1m), but the ceiling height is only ~8ft (2.5m)
[22:45:10] <CaptHindsight> not many telescoping positioners off-the-shelf
[22:45:19] <LeelooMinai> Ok, now it tries to home, but again it's slow as snail
[22:45:58] <LeelooMinai> home search velocity - 0.05
[22:46:14] <LeelooMinai> I guess that's the problem
[22:47:59] <LeelooMinai> oops
[22:48:13] <LeelooMinai> I think I crashed into axis limit
[22:48:29] <zeeshan|3> you should just trigger the axis limit
[22:48:36] <zeeshan|3> to make sure its working :P
[22:49:01] <LeelooMinai> Right, I remember I once run something that was showing green and red buttons on the port and I could just touch the switches and see
[22:49:43] <LeelooMinai> I think this: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Parallel_Port_Tester
[22:50:12] <LeelooMinai> Will install it again and see if my switches are ok
[22:50:16] <LeelooMinai> cd
[22:50:19] <LeelooMinai> oops
[22:52:58] <LeelooMinai> The switches work fine - weird
[22:53:54] <LeelooMinai> Maybe I should choose "home latch direction - opposite"
[22:56:06] <LeelooMinai> "Contains the location of the home switch or index pulse, in joint coordinates. It can also be treated as the distance between the point where the switch or index pulse is latched and the zero point of the joint."
[22:56:12] <LeelooMinai> What "joint" are they talking about?
[22:58:04] <XXCoder1> "We are sorry, but due to legal restrictions, AliExpress is unable to provide escrow services to residents located in Washington State."
[22:58:05] <XXCoder1> BAHHH
[22:58:27] <LeelooMinai> I never useed any escrow there
[22:58:36] <LeelooMinai> And never had any problems really
[22:58:54] <LeelooMinai> I just use a $200 limit credit card to buy from there:)
[23:07:58] <XXCoder1> cool
[23:08:04] <XXCoder1> sigh dunno now
[23:14:19] <LeelooMinai> Hmm, those steppers are pretty hot
[23:15:28] <LeelooMinai> Is outside case 61 deg C ok?
[23:15:53] <CaptHindsight> https://www.flickr.com/photos/100017731@N03/14362017434/in/photostream/lightbox/ looks pretty rigid, you should see some of the pics people post of their concepts
[23:16:58] <CaptHindsight> LeelooMinai: what did you machine that with?
[23:17:00] <LeelooMinai> I just read a bit about CNCs one day than sat into SolidEdge and designed it - I was afraid of not making it rigid enough
[23:17:22] <LeelooMinai> CaptHindsight: Drill press and a table router:)
[23:17:58] <LeelooMinai> kind of like that: https://www.flickr.com/photos/100017731@N03/10046651986/
[23:18:14] <LeelooMinai> I know it's not how it's done, but I used carbide bits and it worked
[23:18:37] <CaptHindsight> what are the Y-axis bearing rails sitting on?
[23:19:14] <CaptHindsight> when you're used to wood
[23:19:18] <LeelooMinai> A table? :)
[23:19:40] <LeelooMinai> I am not sure what y-axis bearing rails are... the ones at the bottom?
[23:19:48] <CaptHindsight> are those solids or tube?
[23:20:10] <CaptHindsight> yes
[23:20:16] <LeelooMinai> They are tubes filled with sand and ended with solid blocks of alu
[23:20:21] <LeelooMinai> Or "plugged"
[23:20:40] <LeelooMinai> https://www.flickr.com/photos/100017731@N03/9630753355/
[23:20:49] <CaptHindsight> what's the wall thickness of the square tube?
[23:20:52] <Jymmm> Tom_itx: Still left side, but in case you wee curious http://i59.tinypic.com/2vuzvxx.jpg
[23:21:04] <LeelooMinai> Not sure if that's a good idea, but solid ones were too expensive, so I devised this as a cost saving measure
[23:21:36] <LeelooMinai> As I remember the walls were, hmm, 1/4 imch probably6
[23:21:43] <LeelooMinai> inch
[23:22:21] <CaptHindsight> you could have used steel, but they are fine
[23:23:16] <LeelooMinai> When I was designing it I was trying to avoid still. I used three steel angles, but I was not brave enough to dill zillion of holes in those main tubes in steel
[23:23:23] <LeelooMinai> still=steel
[23:23:35] <CaptHindsight> looks like 1" or thicker vertical supports
[23:24:25] <LeelooMinai> Yes, 1 inch - I decided too make them thick because I was afraid that gantry would twist or something
[23:26:54] <XXCoder2> argh!
[23:27:02] <CaptHindsight> Jymmm: are you starting to burn stuff?
[23:27:04] <XXCoder2> dont look like I can order from aliexpress at all
[23:27:18] <LeelooMinai> XXCoder2: Why?
[23:27:24] <XXCoder2> We are sorry, but due to legal restrictions, AliExpress is unable to provide escrow services to residents located in Washington State.
[23:27:25] <Jymmm> CaptHindsight: ?
[23:27:49] <CaptHindsight> Jymmm: ^^ the pics (left to right, etc)
[23:27:53] <LeelooMinai> XXCoder2: Simply don't use escrow
[23:28:00] <XXCoder2> how?
[23:28:25] <CaptHindsight> Jymmm: laser working again?
[23:28:46] <Jymmm> CaptHindsight: no, those are BAD. Seems I got a bum laser.
[23:28:47] <LeelooMinai> XXCoder2: I am in Canada and never saw that message - did you check some box that you want escrow?
[23:28:52] <XXCoder2> nope
[23:31:54] <LeelooMinai> Hmm...
[23:35:38] <LeelooMinai> XXCoder2: "I went with the storefront cala game as they had positive reviews for their Wilson Elite jersey. Turns out AliExpress won't let you checkout if you live in WA due to Washington State regulations so I sent the seller a message. They suggested I use an address outside WA and use the comments field for where I wanted it to actually go (I have a cousin in Oregon so it wasn't any big deal to me if it ended up there instead). Ultimately USPS
[23:35:38] <LeelooMinai> delivered it to me."
[23:56:44] <Jymmm> ARGH, I keep setting off the smoke alarm!!!!