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Actually did something with my little Hercus CNC lathe I retrofitted last year. I needed to make some adapters for work that adapted the old camera stands that used to hold Mitchell camera to allow us to mount Manfrotto pan/tilt tripod heads. The stands have a female 1/2-13 thread and the heads have 3/8-16. So I made a bunch of little adapter that go between the two. No cam was used in the code, but a little was generated in the Mach3 Turning Wizard.

Click on the video twice to see it in HD on the youtube site.

Yup, that needed a movie. Too cool for words. I'm trying real hard not to be overly jealous!
I couldn't tell for sure till it stopped for a second you were threading at that speed -- the feed seemed fast, but you can't tell the spindle speed in a movie. Wow!

That was 1750 RPM threading. It will do faster. Depending on the pitch up to the full spindle speed of 3200 RPM.

That's bad as hell!

I am working on a project that you and your Hercus might can help me with Jerry.

If you want, drop me a line at john.bain@nationalautomation.us

Thansk!