Touch screen??

[Kitwn]

I though I would just like to have a touch panel mounted on the machine with PC stowed safely away elsewhere .

John,
Not sure if this would fit your requirements, but if your software has keyboard short-cut keys for all commands (as LinuxCNC does) you could use a keyboard, or a set of more robust pushbuttons driving a keyboard emulator, plus a non-touch screen to do something similar. As an example of how this trick can work I've been using one of these as a pendant for LinuxCNC for a few years now. Each button is configured to emulate a specific keyboard key to provide jogging etc.

[Doddy]

Many ways to skin a cat - and all of them wrong, or right, depends on your point of view.

I do have wired pendants for the mill, but am trying to get away from things that I trip over etc (I am rather clumsy). For my lathe (more relevant to your use case) I do naughty things (most Myford owners are rather over-zealously protective against dicking about with history) with the cabinet. Another flavour of integration with Linux CNC...



It helps that the gubbins is housed in the cabinet as well.

Apologies for the mess... the lathe is undergoing some satanic ritual at the moment.

[JAZZCNC]

For my lathe (more relevant to your use case) I do naughty things (most Myford owners are rather over-zealously protective against dicking about with history) with the cabinet. Another flavour of integration with Linux CNC...

You should be dragged into the street flogged and whipped to within an inch of your life for such atrocities.!! . . . .Not for drilling holes but buying a Myford in the first place....

[Clive S]

You should be dragged into the street flogged and whipped to within an inch of your life for such atrocities.!! . . . .Not for drilling holes but buying a Myford in the first place....

Are you going to take the piss out of me then .

[JAZZCNC]

Are you going to take the piss out of me then .

I'd take the piss out of you no matter what you had..

[John11668]

My current lathe is a Colchester Bantam, having discovered that the Boxford AUD was not up to a decent cut , and a decent Myford super seven had reached serious big bucks by that stage if you wanted a gearbox and a cross feed,
I find that the bantam is a BIG little lathe capable of some serious work and comes complete with all the bells and whistles .(but we digress)

I am not yet confident enough to hack my Bantam about , at least not until I have become confident with the CNC process.
Hence the reason for buying the TCL. As they say ,"any old bike is good to practice on"

So having arrived at the stage where you have persuaded me to chuck the Boxford boards away, yet we think we can retain the lenze spindle controls , I am trying to establish whether I need to keep he processor board . It looks to me as if the relays which call the Lenze controller to run FWD, REV, and the latching functions may be within the processor board . Or have I got this wrong??

I am also trying to get my head around the pin signals to the BOB in relation to the switching functions of the manual control board . Each button there seems to switch a control voltage to earth . Is this a parallel arrangement to the control voltages utilised by the CNC software so could both working options .

[Kitwn]

You should be dragged into the street flogged and whipped to within an inch of your life for such atrocities.!! . . . .Not for drilling holes but buying a Myford in the first place....

Oh heck! What do you do to people who buy Chinese mini-lathes?

[Doddy]

Oh heck! What do you do to people who buy Chinese mini-lathes?

We don't talk about that.

[JAZZCNC]

Oh heck! What do you do to people who buy Chinese mini-lathes?

Unspeakable things too gruesome to mention on a civilized forum, all I say is it involves electricity and cylindrical anatomy.

[John11668]

Ouch.

Is it forgivable if they are your nearest source of kit?