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Re: Dampers

Bob Gardner — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:32:56 GMT

Thanks, Jeff. Please keep us informed. Bob

Re: Dampers

xylotex — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:05:56 GMT

Hi, What I ended up buying was some steel tubing instead of aluminum. I expect it from McMaster-Carr today. It has a .26 center and is .5 on the outside. It

Re: Dampers

Kevin Meinert — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:33:29 GMT

... cool, post pictures when you get them working, curious what's new/different from mine. one thing I noticed, you can buy aluminum tube (extruded i think?),

Re: Dampers

xylotex — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:15:27 GMT

Hi, They were more labor intensive than I would have liked. I've come up with a better way (I hope). I just ordered the part to give the new way a try. I'll

Re: Dampers

Kevin Meinert — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:35:25 GMT

... anything since then. Are you ... I bought some from him, I love them...

Re: Dampers

sherwinkw — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:33:12 GMT

Try looking at http://solsylva.com/cnc/dampers.shtml I built those and it increased my rapids by more than 2X on my 425's. Very easy to build them and quite

Dampers

Bob Gardner — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:26:19 GMT

Jeff, Several months ago you mentioned selling dampers but I haven't seen anything since then. Are you selling them yet? Any more information? Availability?

Re: Manual jogging with the 425 steppers

xylotex — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:01:48 GMT

Hi, If you are asking if it is OK to manually jog the motors by hand when the drive is not powered up, then yes, no problem as long as you are going "hand

Re: Manual jogging with the 425 steppers

Michael — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:57:18 GMT

I use 300 oz-in steppers and occasionally use the keyboard jog keys in Mach3 to make cuts. I don't see a problem with it. Define "light cuts" though please.

Re: Manual jogging with the 425 steppers

unique_designs_1 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:53:06 GMT

I believe this group is for literate users, people trying to use CNC correctly for the job they are doing. Not just a few who are trying to set speed records,

Re: Manual jogging with the 425 steppers

rfeist11 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:24:05 GMT

... Hope this help's. Good Luck.

Manual jogging with the 425 steppers

br1xx45 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:39:18 GMT

I was wondering if one can take light cuts or move the table around with out damaging the motors, like hand cranking, I have no idea how much these things can

Re: MOTORS SOUND LIKE THEY ARE TURNING?

sherwinkw — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:16:28 GMT

Thanks for replying and letting us know how it got fixed. Have fun!

Re: MOTORS SOUND LIKE THEY ARE TURNING?

rfeist11 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:46:07 GMT

Thanks to all that responded to my query. The problem was in my head!! I can't read and follow directions. I had never set up my Vref settings on the drive

Re: tying to get some info on xylotex

xylotex — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:59:05 GMT

Hi, Weekends I am "off", so don't answer e-mails. I replied to your e-mail this morning. Yes, Xylotex is still in business. Jeff