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Modifying a Southbend Headstock for Indexing
bogstandard:
Bernd,
That is why you should get a display with a PCD function on it, it saves all the working out. The box does the work, you just turn the handles.
Bogs
sbwhart:
HI Bernd
Good Job :thumbup:
Now get the rest finished :poke:
:lol:
Stew
Bernd:
--- Quote from: bogstandard on February 02, 2009, 12:26:18 AM ---Bernd,
That is why you should get a display with a PCD function on it, it saves all the working out. The box does the work, you just turn the handles.
Bogs
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John,
That would be nice to have, but my CFO won't release any funds for shop improvements at the moment. The machine came with an old Anilam readout. Works for what I want to do right now.
As I said I used the Autosketch cad program to come up with the numbers. I didn't have to figure them out. I remember doing that at work when I did first run part inspection on a coordianate machine. All it had was an X, Y, and Z readout. You had to figure everything with a calculator. Keep the brain active though.
Bernd
Bernd:
--- Quote from: sbwhart on February 02, 2009, 03:23:21 AM ---HI Bernd
Good Job :thumbup:
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Thanks Stew.
--- Quote ---Now get the rest finished :poke:
:lol:
Stew
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Oooo, ow. Ok, thanks for the poke. :D
bogstandard:
Bernd,
I remember when we had a new bridgeport CNC where I used to work, must have been late 80's. The model engineers were queueing up with jobs for it, making division plates for their dividing heads.
It is only fairly recently that the PCD option has been available for us amateurs. Now the cost has dropped, everyone can now have it (at a price). In fact now it comes as standard on most boxes, with mine you have to select on the box what machine it is to go on, so the features for the type of machine are available. But it does mean you can swap the box between machines with just the press of a button.
John
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