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Seems like it would be pretty easy to just use a 90* mandrel bend. They make thin wall mild or stainless at least up to 6-7". That way the chips would move smoothly. If I still had a VF-2, I'd fab...

I didn't make it back to machine today, was having Valentine's day festivities.

Tomorrow I will go ahead and re-level the tool setter pad and recalibrate, and check runout on the spindle probe...

The spindle probe and tool setter were reclibrated quite recently.

The weird thing is that the ball mill wasn't long and it hadn't moved, just suddenly all the rest of the tools (measured 10 min...

Alright guys, I'm baffled. My machine is a 2011 VF-2 with probes.

Yesterday I was running a program that I always run, and I noticed a bit of an anomaly in appearance. My ballnose that was...

That's interesting, I hadn't even considered ceramic since the material should only be about 32-35Rc. I do have a 10k spindle.

I took a look at the Sandvik 390 as well as the Iscar bodies. I don't...

Thanks for all the input so far!

Since indexable seems like the way to go, what cutter body would you recommend? There are so many options it's ridiculous.

Merry Christmas everybody!

I have a job in front of me that is to be cut out of 4140PH and has a decent amount of material removed. I was planning on just machining it from 2.5"x5" flat bar. Quantity is 50 of this part and 50...

And I fully understand that. It just appears to me that the SHC 625 is, more or less, just a synthetic version of the DTE with some slight changes, and getting up and running quickly is of utmost...

I have a 2011 Haas VF-2 that apparently developed a small gear oil leak at some point and just tripped the low gear oil pressure alarm. I have DTE 25 on hand and saw that some of the older machines...

Good to know! Thanks.

Service tech will be here Tuesday. They said the most common cause of this on the newer machines is a loose wire in one of the connectors behind the spindle. I guess we'll...

As of late, I have been experiencing an extreme number of 126 Gear Fault Alarms on my 2011 Haas VF-2. It's alarming out in the most random places, usually when the spindle has been turning at a...

$13,500 OBO.

Hey guys, looking to sell my 2010 Dynatorch table. It is a gantry kit with a self-fabricated table. Options include laser locator, ohmic height sensing, dynascribe, and the oxy fuel setup (all unused...

Thank you guys!

Surprisingly enough, even though I designed this as a part that was just cool and I didn't really care if I sold more than 10 of them, I've actually gotten a surprising amount of...

I used HSMWorks to program it.

Yep, and these stock ones crack all the time. That is the tag logo for my company, Frontline Fabrication.

Thanks again!

It was fun programming it and watching it take shape. Machining is mesmerizing at times.

Haha, thanks guys!

It's a valve cover for a 4g63t (came in the turbo Eclipse, Talon, Galant VR-4, and Evo 1-3).

And Ken, it fits!!


This is the bottom side with the gasket installed before...

Cycle time is somewhere in the 5 hour range with 3 setups. It's a little over 2 hours worth of surfacing. Thanks guys!

I just finished this up last night and was very happy with how it turned out. No ridiculously tight tolerances, it's a valve cover for a car community that I cater to. All it needs to be is...

I might give them a shot. Thus far, all of the aluminum specific solid carbide endmills have been about on par with each other in my machine. Maybe if I had a bunch more power, some of them would...

That would be great, but there are zero tool vendors in my neck of the woods aside from maybe Fastenal.

Sounds reasonable, thanks for the advice. I think I might give Exkenna a shout and order up a ripper mill or two. I'll report back with what I find as far as MRR advantages.

That's what I was about to say, I don't have much of a size constraint until most all of the material is removed.

I've heard a lot about the ripper mills. They get a lot of praise. I guess I just want to hear someone say "I switched from from solid carbide to an insertable cutter and picked up 'X' amount of...

From my research I've found those aluminum specific insert cutters really kick ass, I just wasn't sure I could take advantage of them with my machine to see any appreciable MRR gain. I guess I can?...

Up until this point I have been using variable helix, aluminum specific 1/2" endmills. They work very well, but I can only pull about 30 cubes/min on one at 100% load. I have a 10k spindle, but peak...

Hey guys, I have a number of aluminum and steel parts that I normally run in-house on the CNC plasma. I'm too backed up to deal with them and have decided to send them out for laser cutting. They...

I would have been all over the idea of hiring riggers at $250. The quotes I got locally were more in the $2,000 range.

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Well I figured it out on accident really. I had been running a couple programs with constant stepover high speed toolpaths that really didn't look like they were running at full speed. After...