Member postings for Ken Strauss

The default on Tormach's PathPilot is for the spindle nose to be considered Tool 0 and all tool table offsets are relative to the nose. This has the nice bonus of being able to measure tool lengths with a surface plate and height gauge if you don't have an ETS. For what it is worth my Haimer is tool 98 since Tormach assumes that an electronic probe is tool 99 for their inbuilt probing routines.

A hint about your Haimer: the concentricity adjustment uses 4 setscrews which are M4 as I recall. These are somewhat delicate in the internal hex recess so I replace them with M4 SHCS which are much more robust. The original setscrews didn't have them but adding brass tips to the adjustment screws seems a good idea.

If you prefer to have both windows full screen you can press Alt-Tab to swap which is on top.

So far so good but has anyone tried Atom3d in conjunction with a CAM package? There doesn't seem to be a .dxf export and .stl is not really appropriate. The Mecsoft CAM costs from than Atom3d!

Thanks for having solved my Marico usage question. For added points, is there a similarly clever tool to accurately gauge internal threads (not plug gauges)?

The patent number for the Marlco thread gauge tool is 555830 and was patented in 1941. This patent is available online at https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?II=9&ND=3&adjacent=true&locale=en_EP&FT=D&date=19430909&CC=GB&NR=555830A&KC=A

So the pitch diameter is simply Y-X? Thanks!

I have a set of Marlco thread measuring parallels (US sizes) but no manual. There was a posting years ago (https://www.model-engineer.co.uk/forums/postings.asp?th=49467) that included a link to the manual but that site is no longer active. Where can I find it now?