Recent content by gol4

An Ingot of pure aluminum runs me about $5-$15. I use broken rims. Price depends on who is working the yard and how bad the rim looks. I have also gotten some free ones as well.

Went to get me a coffee and realized I did not move the x back to start. Would need to add #5 before the first do loop to track x start #5= #2. I told you it was untested then after x completes first pass add 2 more lines. while [#2 LT #1] #2= #5 g0 x[#2] #4 = [#4 + .75] (add 3/4 inch to

Holy **** highangle501, I never thought of using the CNC for jeweling. I just typed this in wordpad. Untested but think it would work. Is this close to what you had come up with? This uses nested do while loops. <code> o101 sub (#1=Length #2=x start #3=yend) #4=.75 (y start position) do (will...

BTW, Make sure you have drank all of the beer from the keg first before drilling the hole :) Additionally, It may be a good idea to let the effects of all of that beer to wear off before operating the power tools required to make this hole.

Well I am getting better. Turns out Linuxcnc won't do M98 and 99 calls. It uses ocodes instead. Last evening I practiced passing a few parameters to some subs. Today I had about 20 minutes at lunch and wrote this from scratch in MS wordpad. Emailed it to myself, pasted it in when I got home and...

That is a great project. Did you have a special purpose that you made it for or just for the challenge?

supercheyenne, Thanks for the detail. No doubt in my mind you have it down.The m98 and 99 calls was what I was not fully understanding. It makes sense now I spent some more time tonight in the mdi and writing some code. I do this because I need to see the effects the code has. There was one...

I am running linuxCNC and like it. I have been playing with the various gcode generator software that came with it but have to say I enjoy sitting in the MDI and punching in codes. Trying to truly understand (g2,g3) the archs and and such I feel will be a true benefit to me. I have no intent to...

Jason, I understand what you mean about doing the homework. I know other forums I was on in past years there would always be the occasional student looking for you to complete his assignment. I have not had homework in 35 years. If I just wanted to print it out I could let one of the many apps...

I recently built a small CNC machine so I am now learning gcode. I have been to various tutorials and feel like I am getting it down, just not mastered. I learn best by seeing examples of the several ways others to do things. What I would ask is for you to post "your" gcode doing an engraving...

Easy fix but in my opinion once the cancer starts it is hard to stop it. I would get the estimate and take consider taking the cash and use it for payment on another vehicle. Between what you get for the damage and what and sell the vehicle for you can probably get a much newer one with less rust.

Whew! I saw the thread title and was afraid my wife had joined GJ and was posting.

I bet if you look you will find the cart was made in China and the welder the good old USA. If you set a HF welder on that same cart it will appear to be level. Nothing out of China works like it should.

The light is fine but who is going to notice the light. My eyes just go to that ships wheel handle. man I love those and wish my WT had one on it.

Thanks for the feed back. While this is not what I hoped would come along it is what is available. Since what I have read about them is they are used in production shops has anyone here actually used one and if so are they capable of cutting steel. Would the rack on the x axis not come in handy...