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Hi there.
How about try to do ID work first then break up the OD turn and mill into sections of approx 3/4 each ?

Hi everybody,
My shop just bought a Milltronics SL-10 lathe with Centurion 7000 series T controller. This machine come with C axis and live tool option.

My next project coming up will require a...

I got 2 options for you to try.
1st . Put some grooves on the tip of the knock out so that there is no flat surface that would allow the oil to stick with the part (99% chance this will work).
2nd...

Partmaker ended up not helping me because we are not on maintenance. I ended up converted the file to .DXF and it worked.

Files sent.
Thanks for your help Bill.

I follwed your instruction but ended up with an error message after selected the *.x_t file.
Message" Pm-tm.exe has encountered a problem and need to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
I...

Hi Bill, I'm new to partmaker, running into an issue when trying to import a ProE file. The option is "grey out" which would not allowed me to select it. Please give me some more lessons. And yes I...

When G09 turn on the tool will stop for a full revolution at the end of that line before jumping to the next line. You can use this command if you need to get a sharp corner or establish a full form...

It's would helpful if the poster let us know what is the length of the thread he's trying to cut. Sometime this can cause by not setting the tool center(core) correctly. I don't see any problem of...

Check the spindle lock pin, it may not aligned properly. When this happened, the pin doesn't reach the prox switch to tell the spindle to stop.

Good luck.

I'm sure you know much more than me about anodize and its application to tell you the truth. These parts are for some sort of paintball gun as far as I know. I will take any recommendation from you...

MBG, thanks for participate.
Customer want matte finish, color could be Bordeaux R, Deep red L. They are not very picky about the finish. Their main goal is cost saving.

Hi,
I'm trying to bid a job and need to find out the cost of "Red anodize" and lead time to put on the quote.
I'm looking at 1000 to 10000 parts per order, parts are make out of 7075 T65 with 7/16...

From the sound of it, I'm sure this part can be done on a 16mm CNC Swiss type machine( I prefer Citizen because I know what these machines can do). There is no way you can pick up with the sub...

Please help me to modify my post, please look at the NC sequence below:

I'm using Wildfire 3.0.

N1(NONE)>>>>How do I edit text in between() ?
T0101
G92S2000>>>>How do I change the G92 to...

Check this out.
YouTube- CNC Citizen L32 making a part

Check this out at Youtube.

YouTube- GEAR HOBBING M20/32 CITIZEN CINCOM

You should call Citizen or one of their local rep. Head office in Jersey # (201)818-0100.

Hi there,
My shop is an Aerospace company, we have 6 swiss machines here and 3 of them running 347 ss 24/7(compare to 321 ss it's not much different as far as I know). I suggest that you should try...

I would suggest +/-.0003 with 32 micro finish. Also a chamfer on one end of the bar would help.(chamfer= 25% of stock dia).

Any single mom out there ?
Hello...:)

If this is autocad: go to "format","Dimension style" (a window will pop up)"modify","fit" at lower right there is a box call "scale" should shown 1.0, make it 2.0 if you want the text twice as big....

Are you sure that you're not having a bad bar of mat'l to start with ? The reason I bring this up because I ran into this situation atlease 4 times in the past 3 years. These were waspalloy and 17-4....

You should try to use a canne cycle (on my citizen machine it's G74) to break up the long chips or learn how to create a marcro program for the same purpose. By the way, I see your boss is the...

Hi there,
I owned several of these attachments with 90 deg face milling, using ER11 collet. They were made by Javis. I'm not sure if yours is familiar to mine or not. I did replaced bearings on 2 of...

BYTHEBOOKBOB! Thank you for welcoming me.
It's nice to talk to you and all of the Swiss machinists here. I think what all of us will get from here is nothing but gain. I'm strongly believed so.

I'm new here. I hope I will learn a lot from all of the "Guru" here and meet some good friends. Thank you all.