Deadbolt Don
Plastic
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- Nov 15, 2021
Please Help, I over think things WAY to much sometimes.
I have been converting a King Canada cross slide table to ball screws and prepping for stepper motor mounts to go CNC.
In the mean time I need to get hand wheels on the newly installed ball screws. I am trying to reason in my untrained brain if the diameter of the "dial is consequential to one full rotation"? Because the ball screw will ultimately define the travel per full rotation correct?
If I use a larger dial, then the scale needs to be in mm, since my 1605 ball screws are 5mm pitch? Can I just re-label the 0.50" dials I have some how? Or will the .50" actually be useable.
In the end the dual shaft steppers will have wheels & dials but the dials have marking that I don't think I can trust at all.
I should just get a 3 axis DRO for it and be done, but converting to CNC in near future this seems to be a waste of time or money. But for simpler operations it would be nice to not drag the laptop out. Plus the steppers won't show the movement in real time manual mode anyway so maybe it is worth the DRO. First.
I have been converting a King Canada cross slide table to ball screws and prepping for stepper motor mounts to go CNC.
In the mean time I need to get hand wheels on the newly installed ball screws. I am trying to reason in my untrained brain if the diameter of the "dial is consequential to one full rotation"? Because the ball screw will ultimately define the travel per full rotation correct?
If I use a larger dial, then the scale needs to be in mm, since my 1605 ball screws are 5mm pitch? Can I just re-label the 0.50" dials I have some how? Or will the .50" actually be useable.
In the end the dual shaft steppers will have wheels & dials but the dials have marking that I don't think I can trust at all.
I should just get a 3 axis DRO for it and be done, but converting to CNC in near future this seems to be a waste of time or money. But for simpler operations it would be nice to not drag the laptop out. Plus the steppers won't show the movement in real time manual mode anyway so maybe it is worth the DRO. First.