Storm Cnc Inlays
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RFisher said:
OK SO YOUR RIGHT SORRY ANYWAY STARTED WORKING ON THE MACHINES AGAIN AND TUNNING THEM IN ILL POST MORE PICTURES TONIGHT
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Lee you must be real busy as you are not answering your phone or emails since the week you got back. Butterflycues
Lee you must be real busy as you are not answering your phone or emails since the week you got back. Butterflycues
not sure about prices, but Lee had one down at the US open last month and it was buzzing away doing inlays on a butt, the machine can also cut and taper shafts, and cut points in. I also personally see the ability to have the machine cut tenon and ferule threads with a little thinking on the users part as well
MArk
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Jr's Farm said:
According to his post here:
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?p=1510753#post1510753
The cost for the storm is going to be $6500. I still haven't heard anything about what the difference between the Storm and the Lightning are other than the obviously automated z axis and 4th axis. (Although I just noticed here: http://forums.azbilliards.com/showpost.php?p=1425513&postcount=38 that the lightning is supposed to have 3 steppers. Does that mean that the z-axis is already automated?)
The cost of the lightning with the Kress router and bracket is $2500. I'm thinking that a z-axis bracket, stepping motor, and 4th axis can't be $4000. Hmmm... It does look like the lightning only has a 3 axis controller, so maybe the extra $$ is in the controller?
Yes on all the above.
The Storm has a longer travle than the Lighting.
The Storm can taper and cut inlays in where as the Lighting will only taper. This is do to the z axis on the storm and not on the lighting.
The third stepper on the lighting is used to drive the spindle that turns the shaft or handle.
Only the storm has the rotary table and z axis hence the lighting can't cut inlays without alot of hardware added.
In short it could be done but would cost alot in hardware.
The storm can use the 4th axis to drive the shaft in the same mannor as the lighting uses its 3rd axis. The same axis control used also used on the storm or the rotary table. You would have seperate motors and switch cable durring set up.
With the help of a few fellow AZers, Lee is tring to make the storm the best machine out there on the market. This just takes more time than we thought it would. I have used the machine already and it does work great. Just not tweeked out yet.
Both machine will come with programs that are easy to use out of the box. As an example I have written a taper program that allows you to set size and diameters start to finish in the header of your program. By doing this you can taper full handles, prongs, handle sections and straight cuts with the same program. I will soon be making a v-cut program where you can input demetions and lengths of points finished size and the program wil cut those sizes for you. This may seem easy for all those seasoned programers out there but for newbies it makes there jobs easier. Of course I would rather understand g-code myself but there you go.
Jim.
The Storm has a longer travle than the Lighting.
The Storm can taper and cut inlays in where as the Lighting will only taper. This is do to the z axis on the storm and not on the lighting.
The third stepper on the lighting is used to drive the spindle that turns the shaft or handle.
Only the storm has the rotary table and z axis hence the lighting can't cut inlays without alot of hardware added.
In short it could be done but would cost alot in hardware.
The storm can use the 4th axis to drive the shaft in the same mannor as the lighting uses its 3rd axis. The same axis control used also used on the storm or the rotary table. You would have seperate motors and switch cable durring set up.
With the help of a few fellow AZers, Lee is tring to make the storm the best machine out there on the market. This just takes more time than we thought it would. I have used the machine already and it does work great. Just not tweeked out yet.
Both machine will come with programs that are easy to use out of the box. As an example I have written a taper program that allows you to set size and diameters start to finish in the header of your program. By doing this you can taper full handles, prongs, handle sections and straight cuts with the same program. I will soon be making a v-cut program where you can input demetions and lengths of points finished size and the program wil cut those sizes for you. This may seem easy for all those seasoned programers out there but for newbies it makes there jobs easier. Of course I would rather understand g-code myself but there you go.
Jim.
Wow, that is full-on spoonfeeding. :thumbup:Mc2 said:
Ok, just wanted to post the top half of the program for tapering on the Storm. If you can put in your own dimensions it will run great. By the way it would also taper shaft with a simple tapper using the lead out to cut as long a straight pro taper as you want. By the way you can taper small to large, large to small, or just straight pass.
#500=1.255 (First Diameter)
#501=.845 (Second Diameter)
#502=29.5 (Length of Part)
#503=600 (Spindle speed in RPM)
#504=-.250 (Leed in amount befor part X axis)
#505=.250 (Lee out amount after part X axis)
#506=[#502+#505](Do not change just math)
#507=15 (Feed Rate to run part)
#508=2.0 (Safe zone for Y axis)
Jim.
#500=1.255 (First Diameter)
#501=.845 (Second Diameter)
#502=29.5 (Length of Part)
#503=600 (Spindle speed in RPM)
#504=-.250 (Leed in amount befor part X axis)
#505=.250 (Lee out amount after part X axis)
#506=[#502+#505](Do not change just math)
#507=15 (Feed Rate to run part)
#508=2.0 (Safe zone for Y axis)
Jim.
Mc2 said:
today we did some tiny inays with .010 and .015 bits works great we aslp cut some fore arms using the storm and the recut fixtures everything turned out right on the money we will post a new video tomorrrow of cutting fore arms with recut fixture thanks.........