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Variable speed knee mill head conversion to programmable speed...
Hi all, Pictured is the head on my CNC knee mill. Note the crank for spindle speed change. I believe these heads are fairly generic, I've seen ones that appear to be the same on other mills. I want to...
View ArticleIs the "prince" for real?
After thinking about the shear ignorance and general cluelessness of the comments I've read, I have to believe that "the prince" is not a real person but one of our members fucking with us. What say...
View ArticleDeckel fp4a headache
H everyone, I hawe a big problem with my deckel fp4a d11... It was a storm here and after that in the morning machine tested SPS and four red zero vas on SPS...Service man told me that my NPC01 was...
View ArticleNeed some help.
Okay everybody. Machine shop I work at recently bought a new laptop for programming and sending programs to the cnc machines. The old way we had been sending programs was with a I/O card on a desktop...
View ArticleHow far out can a lathe be from square before it's an issue?
We had a pretty good crash a couple months ago where out subspindle rapid-ed into the turret, and I was concerned it came out of square. We have a big ol' insert drill (53mm) that we have used in the...
View ArticleAlternate sid threadcutting on a 6T Fanuc?
I just had a really interesting question from a guy I trained 22 years ago in Evansville, IN, and he stumped me. How do you program alternate side threadcutting on a 6T. He says you get a lot better...
View ArticleConical Interpolation programming on Fanuc's
Hello - We have a horizontal machining center with a Fanuc 31i control and I need to do some Conical Interpolation (to mill a tapered bore). I'm not sure how to write the line of code to do this, can...
View ArticleIs there a company that tests drives and servo motors?
Looking at non running machine with older drives and servo motors and would like to send them out to see if hey are good before we fire up the machine.
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Carbide Tipped Slitting Saw
4.5-5.0 Dia 1.00 arbor .125 thick Full radius ground on the outside 10-14 teeth Part is 6061 Aluminum Looking for 1 blade. Can anyone here make one or know where to find one? Need to make this part
View ArticleMazak Integrex 200 mk3 Magazine Alignment help needed
Hi Folks, We are having lots of grief trying to re-align our 40ATC magazine on our Integrex 200 mk3 (640MT Pro) Basically we had some self destruction issues with the magazine guide rails (metal...
View ArticlePOPEN PCLOS Issues
I currently have no access to machine to check by myself, so please advise: Is this sequence valid on Fanuc 0i ? POPEN G0X0YX DPRNT[POS1*[#5041[3,4]] G0X100. DPRNT[POS2*[#5041[3,4]] G0X200....
View ArticleIs there a CNC machine graveyard out there??
Have a 16 year old Mazak VTC-30 with a failed X way cover. New it is $5,000.00. Does anyone know if there is a place that has old retired machines that are being stripped for parts?
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broke tool eye, need to set tools
Most of the time this gets figured out. But I got a little Hitachi Seiki lathe with Yasnac control. Darn thing is goofy to boot (but makes great parts). So far havent found the magic formula for...
View ArticleQuick collete question.
Hey guys. I have a quick question. We have a broken collet. The outside largest diameter is about 1.03 and the length is 2.01. So heres the question. Online I found ER25 colletes to be 1.02 diameter,...
View ArticleTool Presetter question
Thinking about going the way of a tool presetter for the shop and getting away from these PITA lasers. Do any of the tool presetters out there auto write or do anything of the sort so you don't have to...
View Articleneed info on fagor 8055mc control
We have make up ours mind and are looking at a bed type mill with a fagor 8055 mc with conversationnal control. I would like to know if anyone here have use one in the past or is using one atm. Was...
View ArticleTiming belt system preference
In my 10EE CNC conversion I have decided to go to either a type L (.375 between teeth) or type T10 (10 mm between teeth). I think I will need the belts to be heavier than the XL that I used on my...
View ArticleCosen c-260nc automatic band saw
Had a revelation in the last couple of weeks. Much like the frog in the boiling water problem, I realized, I have a substantial bottle neck in my saw department. Not much of a department, more like a...
View ArticleRenishaw Probe MP7000
This is the first time I am trying to use a Renishaw Probe here is the program it works but I have no idea how can someone explain. N0001 (ALUM. AIR ELEVATOR BASE.) N0002 (534-002 OP2 ) N0003 (REVISED...
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