Today I designed and built the drive coupling.
The shaft has a straight spring wire through it that locks if turned clock wise and loads spring tension in the direction of cutting force
down on the tool. This takes the load off the worm gears and loads all the force on the sprag clutch.
All tool changes are in a clock wise direction and 45 degrees each. When the correct tool number is reached the direction reverses
2 degrees. The reverse direction does not rotate the tool it loads the spring in the drive coupling locking everything tight.
Now that it is finished I have to learn how to program the tool changes and I have no idea how to to do that yet...
Building it may have been the easy part!
I'll ask for help on the Centroid Forum
Thanks for viewing
Steve
