Ox
Diamond
- Joined
- Aug 27, 2002
- Location
- Northwest Ohio
I recently picked up an older lathe off Ebay that was advertised as a 2003, but turns out to be more like a '96 or even '95 possibly.
This is a live toy / sub-spindle machine - just like one that I already have ... except that it's not ...
By 2003, C axis would have been std on a live toy machine, but in the mid 90's as some of you will recall, "Indexing" was the standard control of "S" in those days, and C was an expensive option.
So - I have a part that we are running pretty much full time that I would like to move to this machine ... but it needs a C axis....
OR - something that works like a C axis at least...
We doo run actual X/C contoured parts at times, but those typically end up on a Y machine.
This job does not require any X/C interp'ing. All I really need to doo is to be able to feed in C (S? B?) at a reasonable rate that my tiny endmill doesn't git flogged.
I need to be able to move in Z, then C, then Z, then C....
I have gone all through the params for FEEDRATES as well as ACC/DECC, and I have edited any that had "C" in the column, but to no changes.
These params appear to be the same as my actual "C" axis sister machine, so - even tho the machine doesn't have the option, they apparently still load those params as if it did.
The indexing is coded as "B", and it will rapid from one B to the next.
I would like to figger out how to adjust the feedrate of that indexing movement.
I'm just not sure where to look.
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Think Snow Eh!
Ox
This is a live toy / sub-spindle machine - just like one that I already have ... except that it's not ...
By 2003, C axis would have been std on a live toy machine, but in the mid 90's as some of you will recall, "Indexing" was the standard control of "S" in those days, and C was an expensive option.
So - I have a part that we are running pretty much full time that I would like to move to this machine ... but it needs a C axis....
OR - something that works like a C axis at least...
We doo run actual X/C contoured parts at times, but those typically end up on a Y machine.
This job does not require any X/C interp'ing. All I really need to doo is to be able to feed in C (S? B?) at a reasonable rate that my tiny endmill doesn't git flogged.
I need to be able to move in Z, then C, then Z, then C....
I have gone all through the params for FEEDRATES as well as ACC/DECC, and I have edited any that had "C" in the column, but to no changes.
These params appear to be the same as my actual "C" axis sister machine, so - even tho the machine doesn't have the option, they apparently still load those params as if it did.
The indexing is coded as "B", and it will rapid from one B to the next.
I would like to figger out how to adjust the feedrate of that indexing movement.
I'm just not sure where to look.
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Think Snow Eh!
Ox