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well, falling out of the sky for free was kind of the plan... or falling out of the the back of a trailer and then getting run over by a forklift or something along those lines... ie it gets...

does it really?

Load Adaptive Control seems like it could be fun?
Active Chatter Control, Adaptive Feed Control, Trochoidal milling for conversational all seem like they could be useful?

So, has anyone here heard of Heidenhain?
specifically the TNC-640 machine controller?
I know we have path pilot and all, and PP is nice enough, I guess...
but looking at the sales sheet/spec sheet...

1st, thanks for all the suggestions....

the thing is, I have had far less issues drilling 1/2" holes than I am having with this stupid 0.404 hole and that is confusing me and sort of pissing me...

I am obviously making a stupid mistake somewhere...
simple hole/drill op in 6061...
0.404" #Y standard off the shelf twist drill.... in tormach's medium TTS J chuck 30244 - Drill Chuck - 3/8" - JT2...

you make it sound so easy :)
need to come up with idea

execute on idea
the market said idea
and profit$$$


all of that may have been slightly easier if I had the chance to do a bit of...

oh, and is there any way to make the velocity/feed rate sliders bigger and move them away from the estop button? using the touch screen that I originally planned on using on my tormach, when I poke...

and I also got laid off monday...
the timing can't possibly be a coincidence...
pretty sure CandCNC are part of a vast conspiracy that reaches to the highest level of government...
or not, I...

technically, they only need to distribute any changes they made to the OSS bit, anything they wrote themselves is theirs to treat as proprietary as they would like...
assuming they wrote anything...

try emailing Tormach your pictures/description of the problem? maybe also provide a like to this thread?
I don't know...
but what you have is obviously not right, you just need to find a way to...

just saw 1st announcement... it is the 440 PDB...
guessing ATC is next?
as an 1100 owner, I find the PDB for the 440 to be boring...

I wonder if you could just print a 3d sleeve with a tool number on/in it? that would be fast and simple...
I doubt my old 3d printer could get close enough tolerance though :(
still, could be a fun...

well, you just need to get more tool holders then!
yes its ungodly expensive (they really do add up...)
but it is oh so convenient having tool 21 always be tool 21...

that is just horrible, I couldn't even imagine living like that... you have my deepest sympathies...



anyway, hope you get better soon...

my 1100 is out in my non-heated shed... you really don't want to know how cold it can get there... when I first started looking at tormach, you people told me that properly mixed coolant wouldn't...

honestly,, I highly doubt they are in a death spiral, they have been growing quite well these last couple years, seems unlikely they would just start to tank...
and even if they did, so what? what...

oh they are not that bad, quite similar to Keen's NZ winters... he would fit right in!
average of ~1.4 Meters snowfall a year...
generally about -11C, but can get as low as -32C and stay there for...

even better!
and when skynet comes alive, and the robots take over, they will be very appreciative that Tbev set up an assembly line for them...

ah, but 2 fast machines, with a pallet system and one or more robots to load/unload pallets would be even better :)

wow, they really are screwing up lately... bummer...
I kind of expected better from them.

anyway, yes, manual drawbar is included...
but I highly recommend the power drawbar... (or at least a...

you could have picked up the phone and called them at any point, they are more than happy to hold your hand if you would like... well, at least they used to be? maybe they changed?
personally, when...

and you can actually put them side by side... throw in a set of monster jaws (or whatever soft jaws you can find cheaply), mill them together and you are good to go... worked perfectly for a large...

and, 6" vises just work so wonderfully with the 1100...
sure, my 6" GMT's (hey, they were cheap... so what if I don't have a kurt, I am not a pro...) hang over the table a little bit, generally,...

fwiw, a nice low profile car jack (aka the one I have for my old camaro) works much nicer than a pry bar/tilting... gives you better better control over the load...
if you do tilt, just remember, it...

been a couple years since I bought mine, but quote $ = web $ exactly... just had more accurate shipping and handling if I recall correctly...

hmm... I like my GMT vises... they may not be all fancy like a Kurt or anything, but it seems to hold things steady while they are being milled...

that isn't necessarily true...
there could be a gravity issue in the shop...
or maybe he has little anti-grav devices attached to the vises?
we just don't have enough info to make an informed...

oddly enough, I think this is the one "operator induced error" I have not committed... I am feeling pretty good now knowing there is at least one thing I have not screwed up with my mill...
so,...

I don't know about the 6" but my 8" 4th does live one complete revolution in like 10 minutes... well, it isn't really that slow, just seems like it, but anyway, it is just way to slow to do any sort...