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Thanks. I guess a hurting brain is better than not having the ability to define the cutter at all.

Regards,

- Just Gary

Sorry, when I looked at the drawing it looked like a football-shaped cut. When I went back and clicked on the PDF to enable 3D (wow!), It is clearly just a cylinder cut at an angle.

I agree...

Steve -

Unless you can get it on a 4th axis and rock it back and forth using a regular ball end mill, it looks like the "lollipop" cutter is your only choice. The better choice would be to...

You didn't Google hard enough (try looking for the whole darned thing, not just the grips). Begging is not necessary!

Probably the best way to cut the top edge of the grips is with a 0.5" radius...

And don't forget that you can always use a threadmill to thread that TTS blank right on your mill.

But I don't see a threaded facemill at Shars. I see straight arbor and various shank types,...

Magnum164 -

The PCNC 1100 Deluxe Stand has threaded legs with cross-drilled holes above the shoe portion. It's pretty easy to stick a rod into one of the holes and bump the leg around in a...

If you have the deluxe stand, you should have threaded feet at each corner. When I installed my machine, I leveled the base as best I could before setting the machine on top. That consisted of...

Randy,

If we visit, do we get to wipe down your Tormach every time we walk by? Wait a minute! I don't even wipe down MY Tormach every time I walk by! Maybe you can visit my shop and you can...

A hollow voice says, "Get the Kurt D688."

I can't see how you'll be disappointed with it. In any way. Honest.

Regards,

- Just Gary

Magnum164 -

With a grinder, you can also just touch off the stone on your part, especially if you intend to grind the tip profile as a last step.

Just move the wheel just over the tip of the...

Philbur speaks sooth. I think that I would still consider grinding, but supporting a horizontal milling operation with a grooved block in your vise would make it easier to control.

You'd have...

Magnum164 -

Hold the rod vertically in your vise and mount a small, fine grind stone in the mill spindle. You should be able to produce a decently ground hex shaft by using high spindle speed and...

300sniper -

Why did you use that Peugeot shift knob on your bolt? It would look a lot better with an 8-Ball or maybe one of those skull shift knobs with red LED eyes!

Either way, that's good...

... So why not use that, then? Finishing, roughing, who cares? Just tell it to leave some material for a real finishing pass, and use Finishing-Rotary to rough, then do it again as a real finishing...

R.DesJardin -

I must have missed your original post in December. I have had that same issue in SC2007, and the only way I could stop it was to create artificial "fixtures" to keep it out of...

I played with my TTS height gauge for a few hours before I convinced myself that it was indeed repeatable. It does have its issues, but once you learn about them you can use it just about as easily...

Magnum164 -

The only real difference with the HSS is the HSS. In other words, you program everything the same in SprutCAM but just use the HSS instead of the main spindle. When I use it, I set...

twocik -

Read up and ask questions in the TurboCAD/CAM forum before you commit to the 2.5D CAM part, but I really like TurboCAD for CAD work. Getting the package cheap enough is incentive to put...

... or the purple dots, if you want the demo locations. The yellow dots are the shipping warehouse locations. The white zone is for loading and unloading passengers, the red zone is for emergency...

Having recently tried AutoCAD 2006 at work, I was surprised that it really is the old command-line AutoCAD wrapped up in a GUI. Coming from several years of TurboCAD (from V7 to V15), I found...

Cool car.

My seven years of research has shown that weight in the front adds stability, weight in the rear adds speed. I would aim for a CG about .75" to 1" forward of the rear axle. Balance the...

David -

It's been a while, but I think you want the tool to the right (+X) of the spindle, pointed left, with the cutting edge facing away from you. To check it, program a very simple part (like...

Tom -

It sounds like you are on the right track. I like the working backwards part, since it is easy to see what the last pass ought to be, but maybe not obvious what the first pass should be.
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Randy -

As far as I can tell right now, the SmoothStepper is vaporware. It would be interesting to see one on the hoof. My experience with USB serial ports tells me that you'll get a little bit...

Fastest1 -

Thanks for the kind words.

It's funny how Murphy waits until the best time to strike. In that particular case, I had just gotten complacent about tightening the collet and left it...

Randy -

I admit that casting would be fun, and I'd like to try it. With my luck, I'd only have to machine 20 or 30 wax masters to get the process good enough to use. I guess the real luck would...

dkaustin -

I'm glad you got it figured out. These things have a way of making you crazy. Thanks for posting the solution.

David Bord -

The display is rotated in SprutCAM when you use ZX...

All -

For completeness I'll answer my own question. Tormach confirmed today that I need to add a second parallel port in order to have a discrete output. Too bad for me, I guess. It's either a...

dkaustin -

This is not exactly what you described, but could be related. I figured I'd pass it along just in case.

I have run into cases before with 2007 where the simulation quits working...

All -

I have looked in the manual and at the schematic, and didn't find the answer to this question:

Four of the pins on the PCNC 1100 auxiliary socket are +12V, +5V, Ground, and one discrete...