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I have a Fanuc 31i-A5 control, and no parameter manual.... Im trying to find parameters that regulate feed rate, and in tolerance, to be specific on what im trying to accomplish, im rough...

Awesome, thank you everyone, its much appreciated :)
I think i will go with the Y-option, model: LB3000EXII-SBB MY

So, im looking into purchasing an okuma LB3000-SBB with milling option. making round parts with a variety of shaped flats, never know what the future hold though.
Ive never used c-x contouring, but...

Thanks guys, appreciate the help :cheers:

Hello everyone, most of my machines where pretty old and paint chipping when i recieved them, just got in a new Okuma lathe and want to keep it looking new, whats a good cleaner to use on the outside...

Hey everyone, I have a colchester clausing storm 300 lathe, when commanded to stop the spindle takes about a minute to wind down to a complete stop compared to the couple seconds it use to take. M05,...

HELP! I have a Kia HMC with a Fanuc 18M model C control, somehow my system variables for the pallet changer got a little mixed up and i need to setore but cannot figure out how. I need to make...

I have a Kia H63G HMC with a fanuc 18m control. Some how my variables that decide which pallet to load and unload got mixed up. I need to change #1000 from a 1 to a 0. But i cannot find where to do...

Turns out the fans on the back of the drive units where cloogged especially the y-axis drive, thanks for the tip Algirdas!, none of us would have guessed the fans would be behind the drives. i didnt...

We only checked the fans in the cabinet, we where looking for a fan inside the drives themselves, but we never checked the back of the drives, so we thought they didn't have any fans, THANKS! ill...

Thanks for the reply Aldirgas.

We checked them out, everything is pretty clean, all fans in the cabinet are running. It seems to usually occur later in the day. I think you may be onto something...

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I have a Okuma MA-400HA with a P200M control. Im not too familiar with okuma as this is our only one and it rarely goes down.

We keep getting a "1151-02 MCS... Y-Axis 400 #13" alarm...

Hello everyone, i have a haas HS-2RP and have been having some power up issue's. When machine is powered on i get a long sustained beep with a blank screen,
voltage to the machine is good, ...

There's a possible re-work job my shop might get from one of our custumers to re-port the face and o-ring gland for a threaded hole, only problem is the parts are carbon fiber wrapped pressure...

You would think so, but im still trying to get the guys in this department to understand how a torque wrench is to be used.

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( our mill for doing steel really really lacks...

Right now im just trying to think open minded. I've been in the industry for only 6 years and consider myself a forever student in this vast industry. Lately there's been a salesmen buzzing in the...

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Survey-whats everyones opinion on solid tooling compared to indexible tooling? Advantages and dis-advantages of each?

Cool, I thank you all for your help, the only lathes i have much experience with has been a couple of old colchesters one with an O-T control the other with oine of the first 21-iT controls. So far i...

We're looking at picking up a new lathe, nothing too fancy, 3 or 4 inch bar capaicity and maybe even Live tooling capablities depending on what corparate sets my budget at. What does everyone think...

Im geeting the same 401 alarms on my clausing lathe 21i-T control. alarm appears on X, Z, and B axis. Machine has AC motors as well and switches are proxy. othing appears to be stuck to them. Any...

I have a 18M-model C control, and im trying to figure out what the variable # is that reads the current Tool number inside the spindle.

Can anyone help me?

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i think your on to what im looking for, im going to have to dig into my machine and give that a try

I thought of using the M-fin function but decided not to when i relized my machine only has one M-fin input. since i have to pallets i need to monitor the switches seperatly other wise one pallet...

If your looking at horizontals i strongly urge you to stay away from the HS series, we have 2 that are in 24/6 production repearability is excellent but the design is to week for constant production....

i've been given the task to add a limit switch to both pallets of my HS2-RP ( HMC ) that will check to make sure the parts are clamped before the pallet changes.

I have plenty of unused and spare...

I think i'll go with VB .Net then.
thank you all.

hello all,
I've been using Macro's for programing families of parts but would like to start using Visual basic instead, Is there a specific version of VB I should use for CNC? What one works best?

if you have varaibles 100-199 and 500-999 your 9937.4 worked

thank you dpuch, works great!!!

Bluesman,
is additional variables 9937.4 the same on a 18M model C control?