Chaser Grinder mod

[JMike]

Hello to all. This is my first post.
I have a chaser grinder that I want to add a stepper motor to for advancing the chasers to the grinding stone. Is there a good place on the forums to read about installing only one stepper motor?

[One of Many]

That all depends on how involved you want to get. There is the quickest, the cheapest and the inevitable expected end result for longest life.

If your free time is all used up like mine, I'd stick to ebay for stepper motors and compatible drives that are capable of simple programming for point to point count steps or linear motion distance moves, if that is all you need. You just plug them into a PC RS-232 to download your text in a language it understands.

I suppose a simple hydraulic circuit could do that without much trouble.


Even though you mention single motor, if this needs to sync with thread pitch or other electronic gearing, that becomes quite a bit more involved.
You may need to find a PLC or motion controller to pulse a step and direction driver to run the motor. You could use a bulky PC, but that does not sound good in your grinding environment.

Check out Compumotor, Parker, or Daedal. They have good quality and plenty of online manuals to download, if for anything else, to see if what you find will fit your application before you own it and how to connect it after you commit too buying it.

Then you are on your own to adapt it into your particular needs. Then again, there are many here in the Zone that can assist, so none of us are totally on our own.

DC