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Hook it up to your hydraulics and supply some lube in a pressurized jug up there

w mans, YT needs to go back to the old algorithm where I get more of this in my feed

Do you know of a way to make a star shaped hole like those of the Silesian Star Holes in stone which have turned up in Norway, Ukraine, Malta, the UK or even the United States and the Bahamas. There's been some speculation that stone masons did this with a special drill bit in the 19th Century.

Random recommendations that aren't garbage finally. This is what you tube should promote

Great demonstration, thanks a lot . Where can I find details of making closed loop with printer port ? connection, HAL file example, etc. ? Thanks a lot

The one time listening to chat was actually effective

love it

When you just absolutely, positively do not want to hire a climber lol😂

This randomly showed up in my recommended, and i am honestly amazed at the ingenuity and the use of things you seemingly had on hand. Reminds me a bit of Cody's Lab. Ill definitely check out the rest of the channel!!

awesome !!

LOL. That was great! Another option is to do like the power company does.. hang saws from a helicopter. I am sure you could rig something like that up with a very large drone.

Lol thats awesome that it worked.

congrats on the test run

I got one 3 piece

Before you spend more time and effort into this project, you would be wise to think about how you're going to place the antenna in a vertical position . Unless you assume your going to get better signal strength with the antenna laying on the ground. Just a thought!

Are you going to cap the open tubes and paint it?

you are younger than me ;) This is fun to watch. Thanks for sharing the developments.

One degree at 60 feet is a little over 12-1/2 inches.

What year was it?

Is that the Milwaukee Matic? If you need a pit for your machine, you are extra kool. Nice. ---Doozer

wow you are busy

I've been using the "vacuum cleaner" trick to thread pull lines through conduits. Works great. But instead of plastic bags, I was attaching a piece of paper towel. What worked even better for me was a blower for an air mattress. The same idea, just you blow from the same side as the twine enters.

I didn't have the 'Decelerate point' set to the right degree's - now I have it set to 3 and it stops on the correct point. Thanks for the help from the maker!

Hi! i need help, i buy an old emco pc turn 55 but, he comes without worm on the turret, e need replace it i, you can send the dimensions from the original?

Thanks for the nice video. It helped me along to get in to classicladder

So cool!

Id love to own or build one some day. Awesome machine!👍

Id love to own or build one some day. Awesome machine!👍

Long time linux user here, tried linux latency on my arch and I got 7 million nano seconds of latency going through and installing debian probably through the gnome desktop environment and hoping that brings the jitter down enough to keep pursuing linuxcnc since it seems like a powerful tool that supports up to 9axis milling

Is tuning necessary when using a mesa card to send step/direction pulses to a servo drive? Seems like I wouldn't need the encoder feedback, but I'm not sure.

Very interesting using just the one channel, could you share how this is implemented in hal with the falling edge detection on index? On my emco I have 4 missing teeth on the 100 line index position, would this still method still work? Keep up the awesome work!

This is awesome. Thanks for the side by side comparison. The mesa cards really are a step above everything else. I don't need 72 I/O pins, but dang it is nice.

I'd love to know more about this board. I have a Unimat SL-200 w/ Guru Automation cnc kit on it. The controller (or motor driver board?) was intended for use with Mach3 over Parallel port. I never used any of that. I would love to move away from parallel port either using mach4 or LinuxCNC. I am totally new to DIY CNC stuff so while I've been doing a ton of reading it's easy to get overwhelmed.

A bit late to the party but this is brilliant! Have you released the design anywhere?

I'm sorry about your father, my most precious things are ones that my father made and the tools that he used. When I work in my shop I hear his words, and when I use those tools I see his hands in mine and that comforts me. I wish you and your family a similar comfort.

So I have a few questions, which Mesa ethernet card are you using? What is the CPR of the encoder? Looks like you are using the dual BTS7960 mosfet driver? I have used 5i25 and 7i77 on a conversion, but never thought that you could get analog output from the parallel port. I find this really intriguing. I have been putting off converting a CNC Clausing lathe because they never seem to have a Mesa analog card in stock. Curious if there is enough IO available for 6 encoders and 2 pwm drivers?

What ballscrew/ballnut did you end up using?

Never need that sort of speed on that axis. Any issues with regenerative braking back feeding into your controller?

Super cool … can you share or point me to a video where you share your latency number and maybe adjustments to your OS ?… more for curiosity. I started a linuxCNC system as a test bed using a Mesa card … seemed to make everything easier. Thanks for sharing your experience!

Great project man

Sorry to hear about your Dad.

You have a super cool shop! It does not look much unlike mine. I think your Dad and I would have gotten along very well, both hoarders of machines and cool stuff.

If you add some kind of friction brake on the shaft it won't back on you

...But why? Why all that effort for a pretty meh lathe? Just because? I can see that. But still-

I really appreciate the nth degree you’re going to with this little benchtop lathe. It’s inspiring me to try something similar with my atlas 618 after I do my emco turn 140. The scope creep demonstrated though, I really enjoy, as to fit the cross slide ball nut you first had to be able to bore the d shaped hole, which first required the green machine, which first req’d … etc. I mean to say I can relate. In actuality you likely didn’t *need* to be able to bore the d shaped hole, another method could’ve sufficed, but it is an ideal and elegant solution. 👍

Nice ! but please dont use 3 in 1 as a bedway oil, i hope you just did it for demonstrations. Corect oil would be GLP68 Bedway Oil. and it makes a significant difference . the saddle moves like on hot butter with the propper Oil.

Yep, my mini-mill's SFU1204 ballscrews can backdrive when working in manual mode. Actually the Z axis does too, and it is leadscrew-driven (T8x8). I use the Z stepper as a lock and keep both hands on the XY knobs. I keep meaning to add a mechanical lock since the stepper jumps to the nearest position in its 4 step cycle, so can be up to 0.08mm off. Either that or figure out how to jog it with physical buttons so I don't have to go over to the computer.

I belive Emco is an Austrian company, but you're definitely introducing some Swiss DNA.

That is amazing.

I’m impressed that you managed to drill through the saddle to connect all those holes. There are a lot I do pockets in the casting.