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by wilson82
Sun Oct 09, 2022 3:29 pm
Forum: CNC Machine Retrofits
Topic: Micro Kinetics / Sherline Benchtop Lathe
Replies: 8
Views: 14646

Re: Micro Kinetics / Sherline Benchtop Lathe

I sent it to you on the email.

Shawn
by wilson82
Sun Oct 02, 2022 11:12 am
Forum: CNC Machine Retrofits
Topic: Micro Kinetics / Sherline Benchtop Lathe
Replies: 8
Views: 14646

Re: Micro Kinetics / Sherline Benchtop Lathe

No its only half way or so down the part when it does it. Runs fine when there is no part in it. It won’t let me add the video of running and stopping but I added a photo of the alarms and a photo of the cut it did make.
by wilson82
Thu Sep 29, 2022 5:58 pm
Forum: CNC Machine Retrofits
Topic: Micro Kinetics / Sherline Benchtop Lathe
Replies: 8
Views: 14646

Re: Micro Kinetics / Sherline Benchtop Lathe

Finally back on testing the lathe and ran into a small problem. I have ran the program several times so far just cutting air over the last week and have had no problems. I put a piece of aluminum in and run the same program with no changes and about half way through the machine goes into Estop and h...
by wilson82
Sat Sep 10, 2022 3:30 pm
Forum: CNC Machine Retrofits
Topic: Micro Kinetics / Sherline Benchtop Lathe
Replies: 8
Views: 14646

Re: Micro Kinetics / Sherline Benchtop Lathe

I have to give a big thanks to Doug for calling me today and we sorted this thing out pretty quickly over facetime. Thankfully there was no need to mess with the firmware to get this thing to act like a lathe. The Buildbotics controller is not designed to take the G7 (diameter turning in linux) or G...
by wilson82
Thu Sep 08, 2022 5:31 am
Forum: CNC Machine Retrofits
Topic: Micro Kinetics / Sherline Benchtop Lathe
Replies: 8
Views: 14646

Re: Micro Kinetics / Sherline Benchtop Lathe

So I tried the Linux CNC lathe post in Fusion 360 and it is now moving but does not think it’s a lathe. The post is picking a G7 code which would be lathe diameter code in Linux cnc but is moving to the true number and not 1/2 the distance from the centerline as it should. So I then tried G8 which w...
by wilson82
Mon Aug 29, 2022 4:48 pm
Forum: CNC Machine Retrofits
Topic: Micro Kinetics / Sherline Benchtop Lathe
Replies: 8
Views: 14646

Micro Kinetics / Sherline Benchtop Lathe

Hey All, I am retrofitting an older Micro Kinetics / Sherline lathe with the controller and so far I have been successful on getting the machine ready to test some turning code. I have an existing part all modeled up in Fusion 360 and just attempted to post it. I filtered the post library for turnin...