use a pipe tap.
Type: Posts; User: JROM
use a pipe tap.
there is a product called Caseanite. It comes in about 1 pound cans.
You heat your parts up to cherrie red then coat them with the Caseanite, then heat them again to red hot the throw them in a...
two qiuck things to check or do
First check your surface normals and make sure everything is pointing the right way.
Even with zero thickness surfaces one surface with the normal pointing the...
I don't know about a kit, but you can get the ball screws right from the factory in Carson CA. I have done that conversion myself.
Good luck
OR............................EXPORT THE SOLIDWORKS MODEL AS A .IGS FILE INTO MASTERCAM AND YOU CAN WORK FROM A 3D MODEL JUST LIKE THE BIG BOYS!
N.....E......V.........E........R
Just take the hardest wood you ever worked and think 10 times harder.
Then go find some old coot that's be moving metal for 30 years and attach yourself to his hip!
TRY PROGRAMING A 3D SURFACE MODEL WITH YOUR G-CODE BOOK!
I'D LIKE TO SEE THIS PART THAT NO CAM SYSTEM COULD HANDLE!
BULL!!!!!!!!
Hey Geof
Those minus signs come in handy sometimes..........LOL
At least you did not get your head knuckled.
M30 is rewind back to start of program. But you have to hit the big green button again to start the program again.
Thanks Geof
I just got back from the Haas showroom. I'm having them quote a SL30 with most of the bells and whistles. Looks like about 90K........we will see......news at 11
John
Ok guys, my boss just told me to buy a new Haas cnc lathe. So I would like to pick your brains about them. I would tend to shy away from them in favor of a mori. or something like a Mori. But the old...
For some time now I have been thinking about the future of our metal working trades. It seems like no one is training kids anymore. I was lucky to serve a four year state apprenticeship and become a...
Autocad = dxf.
your problem is you are useing an old version of MC and a new version of Autocad.
That said just change the file name to .dxf and try it again. think that will work.
By the way, I...
My wife of 23 years just died of cancer. May first.
COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS
ARN'T WE ALL!!!!!!
THERE IS NO SUCH THING...............HIT THE BOOKS
Sorry to be such a duffus but would someone tell me how to start a thread. I got something I want to talk about.
thanks
put a streight round bar in a tool holder and put it in the spindle. Then put a .0001 indicator on the round bar and push the bar with your hand. If you can deflect the spindle more then a tenth or...
That post made no sense at all. could not figure out what you were trying to make.
Or how you killed it.
Bite the bullet and scrounge up the money to build the first parts. When you have a working product in your hand you have a lot more bargining power to work out production costs It's a lot easyer to...
I don't know because I'm not your "average" guy!
right now I'm just west of 26 an hour but I have not had a raise in 2 years so it will be west of 27 very soon
If you need dead sharp corners to clear for the parts that mount there you can drill a small hole right on the corner just large enough to clear the rad. of the endmill you use.
Then you just run a...
I'm using 9 and they won't pay for the upgrade so I'm stuck. I guess you could say I'm a seat of the pants kind of programer. I look at the setup the material and the type of toolpath I want to run...
I'm in Costa Mesa and I work in Anaheim Hills.
Come on down I'll buy you lunch!
Maybe if I go back to school they will teach me to spell!
Also you have no safety line and no fixture offset call..........back to school with you
take the X and Y comands out of the G84 line and try it again.
I never use the Mastercam tool manager. I just have a dummy part file that has all my tool definations in it and I just copy from there for all my part files. I don't like the software trying to...
The cardinal rule for software demos is
ALWAYS MAKE THEM DO YOUR WORK NOT THE CANNED DEMO!!!
If they have trouble doing your work from your data source so will you.
I once worked at a shop where the owners worked at setting the department managers against each other with a bonus system and a lot of bull s--t. I was hired to make custom wheels. The guy before me...