You would rather burn up the forum servers bandwidth instead of mine? I get the first 300Gb before my $50/month rate goes up, typical month, me and the web page use 30 of it. If 20 people are interested enough to dl those two pix, its still only 100 megs as the two of them total about 5 megs straight out of the camera. Biggest problem I see is my relatively poor upload bandwidth, so they are slow to load.
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Sheldon Compound Gib For An 11x36
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You would rather burn up the forum servers bandwidth instead of mine? I get the first 300Gb before my $50/month rate goes up, typical month, me and the web page use 30 of it. If 20 people are interested enough to dl those two pix, its still only 100 megs as the two of them total about 5 megs straight out of the camera. Biggest problem I see is my relatively poor upload bandwidth, so they are slow to load.
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Gene,
Although 2.5 MB for a single JPG photo seems unusually high (250 - 500 KB is typical) , the short answer is Yes. Besides avoiding problems with typo's as in this case, it also avoids the unfortunately rather high probability that the URL to the photo(s) or file(s) may sooner or later become unavailable for any of several reasons.
Although 2.5 MB for a single JPG photo seems unusually high (250 - 500 KB is typical) , the short answer is Yes. Besides avoiding problems with typo's as in this case, it also avoids the unfortunately rather high probability that the URL to the photo(s) or file(s) may sooner or later become unavailable for any of several reasons.
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Just my 2 cents.
I have several domains that I web host, so I always upload my images to my host, than reference them through the URL (img) command .
Several reasons I do this, but the main one being is that I write on a lot of forums. By referencing my photos by this method, it provides me a convenient method to go back and edit my image(s) anytime I want, reload it to one place, and it will be automatically updated in all the references on the net.
As you point out, there are downsides to this.....but there are downsides to everything in life. The volatility of content on the net is something that we all live with. If information is so important to me, than I copy/paste or print the material into a PDF document for my personal reference or print it out to file away.
Well, at 81, I could fall over yet today, and eventually my widow will have someone, probably one of my boys, come in and shut all this stuff off, and poof! Other than the coco list, subscriber count just north of 500, which depends on my site to have a reasonably freshly built backup copy of the OS as it exists these days, I am not so convinced that my passing will be greatly missed on the innertubes. If you want to see what all is here, just back it up to the gene/ and you'll have a pix of me & the missus staring at you from Easter Sunday 2004. We've both lost some weight we needed to lose, a few more lines hiding behind the beard & its cut a bit more Kenny Rogers style. The missus has COPD, which is worse now than then as there is no way forward that isn't also downhill. I am diabetic, DM-II, and had my 10 minute warning buzzer with a pulmonary embolism a bit over 2 years ago, but the clot buster shot worked so I am still fooling around at my own pace. If I had of known when I was 20 that I would live this long, I would have taken it a heck of a lot easier on my back 60 years ago when I was 10 foot tall and bullet proof. As for the 2.5 megs, straight out of the camera, I should have run them thru the them to the 250k area, but I didn't know how close a look someone might want to take.
My 1934 equ to 2 cents, adjust for inflation.
Thanks Craig.
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I am looking at the two pix files at:http://localhost:6309/gene/lathe-stf/Sheldon_lathe-pix/
that is on this machine. Since I can't see it at the outside address, the "localhost" part must be replaced by the dns resolved
<http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene/lathe-stf/Sheldon_lathe-pix> So replace the final underscore with a hyphen and it should work. My bad, I need to learn to type.
Your link will not open on my computer. I've tried it several ways and it just will not open. I know it's my virus scan/malware stopping me from viewing it, and I refuse to turn it off to be able to view your files.
EDIT; Found his website and managed to get to the Sheldon lathe pics.
http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene/lathe-stf/Sheldon_lathe-pix/
Not my virus scan software, it's the right arrow (>) on the end of the link preventing it from opening. It needed a forward slash (/).
It's all good.
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Looking at your pictures, the gib is definitely way too short. A gib is not too difficult to make, just requires making a couple of fixtures. One fixture for cutting the taper on the gib and a second one for cutting the 30 degree on the sides to create the parallelogram shape to the gib. The original Sheldon gibs were made from 1018 mild steel flat bar. Sheldon may have stress relieve the material for making gibs, but I doubt it. The length of the gib would be about 1-1/2" longer than the bottom half of the slide, where the gib sets. If you like some pictures of a gib I worked on on my Sheldon, I'll be glad to post pictures. The pictures I have of the fixtures show a much larger gib mounted to it that went to my 20" L & S lathe.
That was my impression, that the one in there was too short. I need to order up some 3/8" A2 round drill rod at some point here to make and extension for the ball screw so it can also, if motor power is off, be turned by hand, and considered adding a 1/4" x 1/2" stick of A2 to the order. What I have done with A2 without any heat treatment has surprised me, both by the ease of machining it with carbide tools, and its ability to absorb a millisecond duration compression shock load of 1000+ lbs in a 1/4x1/8 piece with some potentially weak spots machined in the middle of it.
Closer to on topic, I did get the crossfeed ball nut cage done this afternoon, except for plugging a hole in the side of it with a lexan window, so I am one step closer to being able to put a motor on the back of the carriage it where the taper attachment was. I have shade tree mechaniced a set of compressed felt washers to wipe the swarf off the screw before it can get into the ball cage and make noises like a bag of Orville R's popcorn in the microwave. The lexan window covers the ball return tube. The felts will also serve as an oil reservoir, wiping a thin coat on the screw as it spins in and out. I've an idea of drilling the mounting bolt thru to get oil into it by way of a small oil cap in the top of the bolt head. Grade 8 3/x24 bolt with a 1/16" or less hole thru about 1.125" shouldn't be seriously weakened by that.
As for the right arrow, there was a left arrow in front of the corrected URL <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene/lathe-stf/Sheldon_lathe-pix> here and about 4 posts up. Those <> serve as wrappers for the URL, and if looking at it in a browser, or an email agent, they lock a long link that may even be word-wrapped into one string, so that a click on the string should Just Work(TM).
Thanks Ken for the angle (30 degrees) data, now, does anyone know the taper in thou per foot? I can program that into my milling machines easily enough.
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I cannot tell if the gib is too short. If it was apart, then I could tell. The screw is not the correct one though. Both of the compound gibs I have, have a notch that the screw acts upon.
Edit: Gene, do you have the manual? Not sure if you are a member of the Yahoo Sheldon's group, but they have a file section with manuals.
The taper on the two compound I have are different. The factory made each a custom fit.
Here's the image for my compound (12/13" m series). I have read they are the same as used on the 10" and 11" lathe.
Edit: Gene, do you have the manual? Not sure if you are a member of the Yahoo Sheldon's group, but they have a file section with manuals.
The taper on the two compound I have are different. The factory made each a custom fit.
Here's the image for my compound (12/13" m series). I have read they are the same as used on the 10" and 11" lathe.
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I cannot tell if the gib is too short. If it was apart, then I could tell. The screw is not the correct one though. Both of the compound gibs I have, have a notch that the screw acts upon.
Edit: Gene, do you have the manual? Not sure if you are a member of the Yahoo Sheldon's group, but they have a file section with manuals.
The taper on the two compound I have are different. The factory made each a custom fit.
Here's the image for my compound (12/13" m series). I have read they are the same as used on the 10" and 11" lathe.
That is quite different from what I am looking at here, but it could have been that way once, and someone lost the special gib screws that engaged the notch in the gib with a flange that was made as part of the OEM screw. From your drawing above, the fat end of the gib was the front end (toward the operator). I've put mine back together now but its looking like the gib may have been broken off at the inner end of the notch. It was then converted to a 2 screw arrangement such as is used in all 3 positions in my G0704. Which may explain the broken away part that can be seen in the pix I took. Since I have a big block of cast from a local casting operation that pours and finishes large car hubs for IH I believe, it will be a PIMA to make the solid replacement for it once LinuxCNC is running the rest of it, and I can probably do that riser block about as fast as I can get a new, longer gib made. I haven't taken it apart any farther than what you see as the handle has a wobble like the shaft is bent a few tens of thousandths outside the bearing, which may make it difficult to drive out out to the rear. Its had some sort of shipping damage that hit the handle at some point. In any event I ought to be able to unscrew the drive screw from the nut and withdraw the top of it, but this one seems to have something on the end of the still invisible screw that resembles a cap screw and washer hitting the back face of the nut, so I am assuming I'll have to remove the handle and dial, and drive the screw and top half out of the bearing, part #9 in the drawings above. The markings for angle on the base have been historical for decades, a good light can't find much. Once the motors are calibrated, I can write gcode 10x more accurate anyway.
Thanks Craig