Logan Lathe Servo Threading Project - 2

[@AmateurRedneckWorkshop]

My hat is off to you. I thought I had accomplished something when I added a stepper motor to my Grizzly mill for a power down feed and controlled it with a touch screen. Your project puts me in the kindergarten class. Their is another fellow working on this sort of thing but I have not had time to see how far he has gotten. I think he is just starting out. I will send you some viewers when I make my next video. Keep on keeping on.

[@jonrbryan]

Thank you. May I ask what led you to my video? I've suddenly added over 200 subscribers, and I'm wondering where they're coming from.

[@AmateurRedneckWorkshop]

@@jonrbryan I saw another fellow starting this project and forgot his name so when I went back to search for him I found you.

[@christopherleveck6835]

@@AmateurRedneckWorkshop Thats how i got here. Watched your video. I've got everything I need to do this..... it just made the top of the list.

[@AmateurRedneckWorkshop]

@@christopherleveck6835 please do video and show us what you come up with.

[@plnmech]

Jon , thank you for your prompt reply to my question, your answer certainly makes sense to me. Good luck with your endeavor and I hope that you have a speedy recovery. John

[@plnmech]

Jon, you and James at Clough42 are both working on the same project but each of you is following a different path to the same destination. I like each path but I an more in favor of a touch screen display and control panel. I will ask you the same question that I asked James. Why ae you pursuing this project? Are you doing this for your own needs and desires or do you have thoughts of producing a commercially available product? I believe that there may be a market for it in hobby machining community. A lot of us may be good at machining but are sorely lacking in programming and electronic skills. I would appreciate it greatly appreciate it if you would answer my questions in the comment section of this video, so that all of your viewers may see it. John

[@jonrbryan]

James is a much more accomplished programmer than me who has clearly had a great deal of formal schooling. I'm more down and dirty, and nobody should learn programming from me. I see that James went into great detail regarding fixed vs. floating point arithmetic. The thought of floats never even crossed my mind because I've been doing real-time scaled integer math on micros for about 35 years, and I started with Forth which permanently warped my mind anyway. C/C++ is an ugly (but not the ugliest) language to me, but it's what I had to work with on the Arduino, and I didn't want to get crazy on something that I might eventually share with other people. It took a while before I decided to go with the programmable lead screw. Change gears are a PITA, and at first I thought I would just put a gear motor on the outboard end and drive it with an adjustable DC supply, but the more I thought about that the more crude it seemed. Then I spent some time pondering how I would implement a microcontroller/microstepper in a way that would be completely reversible. I got to where I am incrementally and experimentally. First just for fun, then thinking that others might find it interesting and that I might even be able to turn it into a product to keep me occupied in retirement. So here we are. I retired today, and I fully intend to get back on this project soon and bring it to some semblance of completion, but I'm still recovering from knee surgery and complications. Thanks for your interest, and I hope that I made some sense.

[@shauntucker5145]

did you make your collet chuck?

[@jonrbryan]

Fitting the ER40 chuck to a backplate was the very first thing I did with the lathe after I got it, and I probably use it more than anything else.