Bridgeport Manual to CNC conversion...

[Davek0974]

Its all about function not pretty :) And that looks nicely functional, thanks for sharing.

20mm screw?

Air collet closer too?

[komatias]

Thanks! It is pneumatic impact wrench type drawbar in a nice package. There are plans for one on the net too. You press the green button a bit and it unscrews a specially ground R8 collet.



You may have seen I use (and sell) the repeatable Z offset ER collet chucks which makes life infinitely easier when running multiple toolchanges. Measure the tools beforehand, enter them into the tool table and swap them out when needed. plenty of videos of them on youtube (search TTS tooling).

R's

Screw is 1605

[Davek0974]

TTS looks useful, will look into that.

[Davek0974]

Threw some panel buttons into the mix today, also fitted LED's for little bling ;)

Video here...

[JAZZCNC]

Why do the other lights come on when press cycle start.? Presume they are Feed hold and Stop.!

Are you turning lights on using Outputs and Macro pump.?

[Davek0974]

Yes my thoughts were that when idle the Cycle start and Spindle Toggle would be active and when active the Feed-Hold and stop would be active. The logic is that the lights indicate rapidly what a possible action would be.

I could go one step further and use the lamp supply as the switch source so only the lit buttons would do anything but i think Mach has that pretty much covered anyway.

Yes, I have a small bit of code in Macropump.m1s and an output feeding a relay, the lamps run from the N/c and N/o contacts on that relay.

The macropump code checks two omelette's for run or feed-hold.

Edit..
Frigging autocorrect - that last line should read....
The macropump code checks two oemled's for run or feed-hold.

[JAZZCNC]

I do similair thing with the control panles on my routers but it just checks Mach led's and turns on/off outputs accordingly to whats active. I use 24V led's which the Outputs turn on/off directly.