Hi
I know there's a macro for it and I've read most of the stuff I could search out but I'm curious how it's working out for users. Sometimes these things work a lot better on one persons machine than others.

I'd really like to implement rigid tapping on my knee mill. I use a VFD for the spindle speed control and I drive the knee for the Z axis.
I have a job that looks like it's not going away anytime soon and it has 24 8/32 threads that I'm currently thread milling. I'd like to speed up the process and my thinking is rigid tapping would really cut down on my cycle times. Plus it's uber cool!

I'm basically interested in if it's working for you and what your using for a spindle encoder.

Thanks in advance.

Derek

Here is my hard tapping video using Mach3. I use a hardware 'swapaxis' board that works with any motion controller and any CNC that uses step/dir (and probably analog as well, but I have not tried that yet. I think the Kflop can perform this function internally. Hope this will provide some insight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu61oBY5-rw

--- In DynoMotion@yahoogroups.com, "tig415" <tig416@...> wrote:
>
> Hi
> I know there's a macro for it and I've read most of the stuff I could search out but I'm curious how it's working out for users. Sometimes these things work a lot better on one persons machine than others.
>
> I'd really like to implement rigid tapping on my knee mill. I use a VFD for the spindle speed control and I drive the knee for the Z axis.
> I have a job that looks like it's not going away anytime soon and it has 24 8/32 threads that I'm currently thread milling. I'd like to speed up the process and my thinking is rigid tapping would really cut down on my cycle times. Plus it's uber cool!
>
> I'm basically interested in if it's working for you and what your using for a spindle encoder.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Derek
>