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Skeney, The Okuma is going very well. Support is not great in SA at the moment. We have a ATC issue where the tool carousel does not stop in correct spot, so they repeatedly opened up the +/-...

Ok. I see I got some replies top this Oldy.
1) We have grown to love the IGF on the P200M and use it for all 2D programming. It is surprising what can be done in 2D - see pic. And it is super easy...

We are tapping 60mm deep.
Had about 1000 holes to tap/thread.

Thread milling is slow, Mill should be able to tap M24.

Spindle load is around 30%-40% with a new M24 Tap. 80 RPM (6m/min)

Z axis P Pitch Error Comp = 461.000
z axis N Pitch error Comp = -1

I have no idea how to measure the error.

We get poor tap life when rigid tapping on our 2008 MB56 VMC.

Taps under M16, M4-M12, work very well as long as we use a tap holder with some float. (Annway TER-32 "Rigid Floater").Without the...

Just bought a new NT Hyper SPindle for my Okuma MB56VA machining centre to help with aluminium and engraving.

max cutter dia. 12mm - max rpm 30,000

Just wondering if anyone uses one for...

I have 4 Daewoo lathes.
3 are great and have been very productive and reliable.
My 7yo 230M with live tooling is great when it works, but has had more problems than any of my other machines....

We have had good success with 2 x insert chamfer cutter using the tool geometry straight from the ISCAR book, but the pointy Nine9 tool required offset greater than expected to get accurate chamfers....

The problem we had was getting the correct size chamfer without having to "trick" IGF with WALL and Valley and untrue offset and ND values. I expected to enter the correct tool data in tool library...

Thanks for that, I had forgotten about my rants on here!
David from OKUMA came out and made the changes today.
I look forward to some chamfering in next couple days to see the result.
Will try a 2...

We have the latest version of IGF on our new MB56VA
Current work is 2D.
Has anyone found a reliable way to get the chamfering function to produce accurate chamfers everytime?

I have found that...

I know G-Code! The conversational interface is quicker and safer.

We got a new MB56VA a few weeks ago, our first machining centre after years of lathes, and the OSP200M Advanced IGF One (friggin Million) Touch is confounding me.
Anyone have opinion on whether to...

Australia is a lucky country with abundant ore-iron, bauxite, copper, nickel - Our government should be encouraging local value adding rather than just the fast buck of shipping our dirt offshore...

I think the most important way to combat the flood of chinese crap is to convince Aussie consumers to buy the best you can afford, like our parents did, impulse buying of cheap electrical junk is...

My 10 tool 8S had a horrible grinding noise, after pulling the thing to bits, it turned out to be a solenoid problem. The cavitation made the noise!
Also, changing the oil helps with turret indexing.