There are other options on some of the versions. With some you can cut tapers others you can also ball turn.
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 9:48?AM Kevin McEnhill <
mcenhillk@...> wrote:
An electronic lead screw allows you to cut any pitch thread you want, SAE or metric. It will also allow you to use any feed rate you want. So, if you are developing some chatter and want to reduce your feed from (and I'm making up numbers here) 0.010"/rev but the next change gear down takes you all the way down to 0.005"/rev, the ELS will allow you to pick anything in between (on the fly) till the chatter goes away.?
Basically it gives you almost infinite?control of your feeds.
Kevin
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 8:31?AM Mike Poore <
mpoore10@...> wrote:
No offense intended here. I must be ignorant on the subject.
Enlighten me on what I could do with an ELS that I could not do with
a QCGB or a change gear set. I understand that change gears are a
pain, which is why I bought a lathe with a QCGB to replace my change
gear lathe. The price of the QCGB lathe was offset by selling the
change gear lathe. If it is about not using change gears, it seems
that a QCGB lathe would be cheaper than an ELS upgrade.
You have to understand that I am still trying to figure out why I
would want to buy a water heater with Wi-Fi so that I can
communicate with it via a phone app. All I want from a water heater
is hot water when I turn on the tap. My QCGB lathe has 40 feed
speeds. I think I have used about 5 or 6 of them in 3 years.
Infinite control of the feed speed seems utterly useless to me.
On 1/23/2024 3:42 PM, mike allen wrote:
??? ??? This ones probably one of the simplest ones I've seen
& seems to do everything . It's a free group & the folks
that designed it are in the group & help is not far away .
pretty sure if I do one it's gonna be this one . Info is in the
files section .
??? /g/AtomicELS
??? animal
On 1/23/24 12:28 PM, Rui Dantas via
wrote:
I have been watching some YouTube and there is on system some
guy made and he had all kinds of programmable boards on it.
Seemed very complicated but he apparently has all the parts for
sale to the public just don’t know how I would program the
boards… I’m just a hobbyist?
?
Rui, my Craftsman 12x36 has a direct drive
motorized Z axis. Not sure what you mean by "all the
electronics"?
Eventually I might get around to doing a motorized X
axis.
The hardest part is deciding how you are going to
motorize the axis, and implementing your decision.
It took me years after following all of the
discussions?on the web to actually?doing it.
Let me know any questions you might have or if you
just want encouragement.?
I did it all by myself without anyone to talk to,
that made it tough.
Until I got to the programming part where I got some
great help.
Once you get the motor mounted I have a great stand
alone program for motorizing an axis.
Hello
all! Has anyone done an electronic lead screw conversion
on their atlas lathes?
If so can you show some pics of the project. I’m looking
to add one but seam a bit complicated with all the
electronics.
Thank you!
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