Eeeeeks! I never thought about the latch vibrating open. That's baaaaad.
I haven't had that happen yet, just the one time that I didn't get it closed properly. I'm better at visualizing the door when I shut it so it won't happen again.
But as soon as I do like HMB3000 did and jumper the switch, I'll leave the spindle lock on and smoke the motor and controller. You'll tell me the fuses will blow, but I too have stalled the spindle on a plunge (the "wizards" helped me and changed the Z offset) and they didn't blow. Maybe the controller knows I'm an idiot and backed off the current when the spindle stopped turning. Maybe I hit e-stop fast enough. By now I'm sure that the controller knows I'm an idiot anyway.
One thing about computers: They will always do exactly what you told them to do. You might not have told them what you thought you told them, but they obligingly do what you did tell them. In that regard, I can swallow my mistakes about leaving the door open or the spindle lock on, or even letting a "wizard" change a Z offset without noticing in time, but if I shut the door it should stay shut.
By the way, Bluefin, to me every end mill is an expensive one. I'm too dumb to order them in quantity, and when I break one it means I go without that size or shape until somebody has a sale on them again. If I actually made any money with them, it would be very different. Besides, I have only broken them because I'm an idiot, and I figure I just *have* to outgrow that some day...
Regards,
- Just Gary
P.S. [off topic] Is it the use of subroutines that changes the position offsets in "wizard" code? I think it only happens when I dry run one and stop it before it completes. I tend to do that often, and have toasted myself several times because of it. I'm now very leery about using a "wizard" at all.  |