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| involutecurve:
Its been a while since I posted anything, my excuse is I've been moving house and consequently workshop, I'm making these as a test piece, these are for a mate's Ducati 900ss, he's turning into a Café Racer, should be a nice bike when its all finished, these are the first things made with the CNC miller at the new house, its been an absolute nightmare moving all my equipment, however at least its all up an running now. This one is the smaller of the two and is made from 5083 20mm Aluminium plate the other part is quite a bit bigger and will be made from 38mm plate..... I converted this miller to PC control back in 2004, it now runs Mach 3 and or LinuxCNC depending on mood and what I'm machining........ Any questions or comments welcome. Shaun. |
| DICKEYBIRD:
--- Quote from: involutecurve on January 12, 2015, 12:37:59 PM ---I converted this miller to PC control back in 2004, it now runs Mach 3 and or LinuxCNC depending on mood and what I'm machining. --- End quote --- Beautiful work Shaun! Does your mill have servos or steppers? You speak Mach3 and LinuxCNC both....WOW! You must have very strong computer Kung-Fu! :beer: |
| Brass_Machine:
Nice. Was just thinking about building up an air cooled Ducati! Eric |
| involutecurve:
--- Quote from: DICKEYBIRD on January 12, 2015, 04:36:22 PM --- --- Quote from: involutecurve on January 12, 2015, 12:37:59 PM ---I converted this miller to PC control back in 2004, it now runs Mach 3 and or LinuxCNC depending on mood and what I'm machining. --- End quote --- Beautiful work Shaun! Does your mill have servos or steppers? You speak Mach3 and LinuxCNC both....WOW! You must have very strong computer Kung-Fu! :beer: --- End quote --- In a former life I worked for a big Telco designing very large networks running Unix. Mach3 is the easy option but with less option for customisation, my Hurco miller runs brushed Servos 100Vdc, driven by Gecko controllers, for the X.Y.Z. axis the 4th runs a stepper, I have home made breakout boards, and relay boards, all drawn by hand with a resist pen!! the only reason I did it this way, was at the time none where available off the shelf, I originally ran TurboCNC, and EMC until Mach came along. Shaun |
| involutecurve:
This is the second part of the belt Ducati covers, in fact this is the main section, machined from 38mm 5083 billet plate, its taken approx 3 hrs. machining time, 90% of the machining was carried out with a 3/8th x 1 LS tip radius cutter, the machining lines although visible are pretty much undetectable by touch, which sort of feels a bit spooky...... |
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