Yes Bob, John?
Dammeyer's?ELS does threads and tapers it is a great but old system with lots of buttons. It was Jon Bryan's ELS that does not have X.
Ralph
On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 7:03 PM Bob T <
zs6bxi@...> wrote:
Hi Ralph, Not sure if I¡¯ve gotten ?the bull by the udder here , but Johns ELS design does do X axis. (I¡¯ve got three of them but only one of them using X axis fully) At the moment he has been playing with (amongst many other things) the next version which is also aimed at Milling machines. The X axis on mine does its work based on what the Z ?axis is doing and such does threading tapers etc. but not fully independent ( it thus doesn¡¯t do full facing very well (only manually at slow speed) ). You do have to use the X output to an external stepper though ! The internal stepper driver for the Z axis worked well but was limited to 2 amps, but became expensive due to the cost of the driver chips. Now its much cheaper just to use external drivers for both Z and X axis.
Regards?
Bob
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