Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago

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Hook up and testing of the CVT on the Schublin 125CNC lathe retrofit to LinuxCNC.

00:00 - Intro
00:45 - Encoder hook up
02:30 - Water pump repair
03:05 - What are pickle forks?
05:38 - How many volts is 5VDC?
06:11 - So what is a variator?
09:41 - Does it work?
10:31 - How should linuxcnc control all of this?
11:45 - Speed range


There is a discussion of this on the LinuxCNC forum here:
forum.linuxcnc.org/26-turning/41498-schaublin-125-cnc-retrofit?start=320


Here is an example of a LinuxCNC component (which was written by a mate to control the Maho gearbox.)