Re: Need help brainstorming a solution for this mill turn spindle
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QuinnSjoblom
You mean the square peices that tie the front and rear plate together? Or the front and rear plate? I'm actually hoping there is a very slight amount of flex allowed since it's designed to work with the brake. If there's no give at all, the servo will fault.
Yes, pretty sure they will flex and will get looser over time.
Rather than the end plates, maybe drive pins?
Re: Need help brainstorming a solution for this mill turn spindle
Seeing as how you are not able to pass material through the 4th axis per se, I would think that you could do away completely with the 4th axis part and attach a chuck directly to the servo motor spindle......just thinking...….I doubt that would be a solution but ….giggle, imagine if it was.....such a compact unit.....maybe a very big servo....hmmmmmm, perhaps a pancake type servo with a big diam hollow shaft.
Ian.
Re: Need help brainstorming a solution for this mill turn spindle
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QuinnSjoblom
I added to my last post. I think I'll adjust the design of those to be drawn into a tapered shape so they aren't relying on just bolt pressure to prevent shear slipping as I agree they could get loose over time. A slight amount of flexing is ok as it will make the servo happier when locking, but I surely don't want the joint loosening up
I edited my post above also. Drive pins maybe? A couple of 1/2 or 5/8 dowel pins into plastic bushings might do the trick.
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heres what im thinking to change the joint of the linking plates. this would prevent any slipping. just need to make it a nice tight fit. similar to this but not exactly. probably want more meat in the "ears" of the pocket or they will just flex
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Re: Need help brainstorming a solution for this mill turn spindle
That should work if you have enough engagement.
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Another thing I'm gonna do to get everything concentric and running true, the nub on the back that the ballscrew coupler references on will be left slightly oversized, I'll assemble it onto the spindle and then turn down that nub to size using a long endmill by slowly feeding it in and turning the spindle by hand. This will make the reference nub perfectly concentric to the spindle
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Sorry, pic got flipped. Decided to play around a bit before i rebuild the mill turn for direct coupling. Dont have lathe tooling yet but i did have a cheap single insert indexable endmill. whipped out a mount for it and tried a cut. completely the wrong tool for the job, not a rigid mount, too much tool stick out, etc. still cut halfway decent lol. cant wait to do some real turning once i have some proper tools and mounts. i thinks its gonna work great judging by the results already with a terrible setup.
Another thing I just realized, my mist cooling set up is gonna need some serious expansion for turning/milling in same program without stopping. Nozzle for each turning tool as well as one for main spindle. Letting them all run isn't gonna work unless I get a bigger compressor and waste a lot of coolant. Really wish I could setup for recycling flood and just let all the nozzles go, but just not an option for me. I think I'm gonna need a solenoid for each mist cooling nozzle and get tricky with my tool change macro. Assign solenoids to groups of tools that will be mounted in specific position.
Re: Need help brainstorming a solution for this mill turn spindle
Nice work! :cheers:
If you disable the drive when applying the brake then faulting would not be an issue. You could do it with a relay that simultaneously applies the brake and grounds the enable pin on the drive.
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So heres what im thinking for the mill turn gang tool setup. Originally i was thinking i would slap a qctp on either side of the spindle and call it done which would allow for really quick tool changes, but it takes up a lot of room and limits me to 2 tools at a time. I decided i would rather be able to hold 4 or 5 tools with less convenient tool changes, but rarely need to change tools. Also much cheaper, 400 bucks for 2 decent wedge qctp's. This is based around chunks of 7075 that i already have. I think it could be even more rigid if i redesigned it with the main plate being much thicker and integrated as the spindle mount, but ill have to buy material for that so i think i might try it like this with no cost and see how i like the layout, then maybe redesign later with possible changes and thicker main plate integrated as spindle mount.
This holds 2 1/2inch tools on the right, in most cases a parting tool and either a ccmt or dcmt. These tools are held with 3 m8 set screws. The tool closest to spindle is first installed with set screws within the material between the 2 tools, then outer tool installed with 3 more set screws in outer material. Outer tool needs to be removed to access inner tool. On the left side there is 2 er20 chucks for holding drills and boring bars. these are pretty cheap, 10 bucks a piece on amazon. They fit into a 25mm bore with 4 m8 set screws each, 2 pairs at 90 degrees. Those 2 bores will be interpolated to final size using a long 1/2" reduced shank endmill that i have mounted in the mill turn spindle to give perfect axial alignment. Much easier than milling them ahead of time and trying to get axial angular alignment adjusted afterwards. ill hog out most of the bore when making the part and just leave 20 thou or so for final interplolation with mill turn spindle, or better yet get a boring head.
With these 4 tools, a dcmt, parting tool, drill, and boring bar, plus whatever tool in main spindle, i should be able to complete most parts that i have start to finish with only milling spindle tool changes. Clearance between tools allows work on up to about 1 1/4 diameter parts which is plenty for most of what i do. larger parts are just index milling and theres no clearance problems with that since the vertical spindle nose comes down further than any gang tooling. I would like to add a 3rd 1/2 inch tool on the right, most likely threading, but i think ill probably start to run out of rigidity with the current design reaching out that far, so possibly add the third when i redesign later with thicker more rigid setup. right now all the main parts are 1.75 inch thick so i think itll have decent rigidity as is. The main plate clamps onto the spindle as well as being bolted to the Z plate from behind. I'll need to really nail the bore size for the spindle so when i clamp the main plate onto the spindle, the 2 flat surfaces on the right stay coplanar for bolting on the right side attachment and the rear surface stays flat for being bolted into through the back of the z plate.
I dont really know a lot about boring bars, but ive read about other guys holding them in er chucks no problem. The type that have flats on them might need to have a slotted sleeve for proper holding in the er collet. The other difficulty is getting the boring bar lined up at the right angle in the collet since the collet can sometimes twist a bit when tightening the nut. If anyone has a better idea for holding various boring bars in a compact space, Im all ears. I could use one er chuck for drills and something else for boring bars if theres a more simple solution.
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Re: Need help brainstorming a solution for this mill turn spindle
Sounds like a well thought out plan :cheers:
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I, just my personal opinion....it's easier and better to mill in a lathe with live tooling than to turn on a mill, router etc.
Attempting to convert a mill etc to do turning with multiple tooling is a complication at best.
I can understand the desire to do all machining operations with one machine....that's a do all machine...…. but it does take a lot of complication to get there.
I would imagine if you mounted a 3 jaw chuck directly in the spindle with the work piece pointing down and nested the various tools pointing up on the table you could do turning by using the Z axis and milling using the spindle as the main holding feature all in one go.
A servo driven 4th axis.....no need for a brake..... on the table then does the drilling and milling bit.....just thinking beyond the box......I think this has been done before somewhere if I remember.
Ian.
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Hi, I quite agree with your choice...….. if it works out OK it'll be quite neat.
The long job part is one thing you would gain advantage from a 4th and servo drive with a through hole.
I see you are opting for 5C collets...…..one problem with 5C is that it needs to have exact size collets for the material holding and a draw tube too tightened from the end which makes the 4th spindle diam and bearings a bit on the large size.
I think I would go the ER40 collet option....25mm diam material size is handy..... as it has a squeeze down factor of a mm and so can cater for raw material diams a few thou undersize.....I've never found any bar stock in cold rolled to be an exact size.
My personal preference for the 4th I'm building is an 80mm diam 3 jaw chuck with an option for a 125mm 4 jaw chuck too......the main reason is the large through diam.
One problem with those chucks is they are rated at max 4,000 rpm but as I won't be doing any turning for me it won't be a problem.
Ian.