MadModder

Was dreading this since I kinda knew it'd be the fiddliest part of this. What I neglected to consider though is that loaded with wires those chains weren't going to flex as easily. Especially since I got shielded cable! Had to fiddle with the Y axis chain to drop it down a bit, but now I need to add a couple more segments to get the full Y travel. Also lost about 20mm of Z height.

Still gotta extend the Z axis stepper motor cables and add a few end connectors. Should hopefully have it running tomorrow. I think I said that a couple days ago...

Hi Buell
My X2 Mill has a 1.25 hp motor and belt drive fitted and drives a 50 mm facing cutter with HSS inserts quite well with light cuts.
One improvement that helps no end with a Facing Cutter is to fit an AMP Meter to the power leads. Adjust the depth cut to read less than the motor power.
Photos of Facing Cutter and setup jig fitted with the lock bolt removed.

Eric

Four drawbacks: it doesnt read the backlask, the screw error, manual motion, or lost steps right.  If you fitted one with an encoder, you could take out the last two problems for a small outlay.
There are cheap quadrature counter modules out there, in regular, waterproof, and instrinsically safe (not going to cause an explosion).  I've used all three for regular and backup depth readouts on machines from 10 to 160,000 pounds.

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So im told in theory I could make a Power feed with a stepper motor thus creating a Dro ? So im looking into that now as this seems a double hit it i can use it manually sometime as-well in some config.

Russ that's a good suggestion but one I've failed to accomplish 

The original file that it seems to be writing to was named "820T@@ST.S5D" - (I say seems to be writing to, my only real clue is the date and time stamps on the files).

I've downloaded it to my desktop PC (remember that STEP5 is running on a Toughbook CF-52 under Win XP) and had a look using 'Hex Editor Neo' which lets me display in plain ascii text, hexadecimal or binary. Sure there are areas where a bit of recognisable text appears but the overall structure is still not clear (to me at least)

I've renamed it as a 'TXT' file so that I can attach it to this post - maybe others will have more success than I