Re:Hardinge CHNC 1 Lathe

First moves and spindle with G code... now on to the tuning.

very nice work, im glad to see this all taking shape finaly
not long till that luvly clean machine is getting dirty

rob

Awesome! How much faster is the Rapid for x/z?

Cool. Nice to see some success. (BTW, what camera did you use? I'm looking for something that will take decent videos.)
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Kirk Wallace
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California, USA

tenaja,

Rob said I should get in the area of 10m/min with Z and 5m/min with X. The drives are not tuned up yet and I can get 240ipm with the Z, X is waiting on a belt to arrive from Hardinge. However now I get a fault on the main drive board for the axis and nothing moves. Well the spindle does go from 0-6000... Oh, in the video it was running at 40ipm as I had not even began to try and set the PID.

Kirk,

I borrowed a Flip and used my tripod so it would not wander all over the place lol. I have some parts on the way for the turret, I got two of each for a whopping $5.40 + $1.90 shipping so we will see how that turns out next week when it shows up.

John

NICE! great to see another Hardinge in motion.
Sounds like it'll be a bit faster than my HNC, i can only get 200ipm out of mine before it throws a fit.