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Erik,
Sounds like a good approach. I will give it a try.
Regards, Ray

No cam here and it is not a pipe thread, just similar. I have rigid tapping, but I need a smooth thread, not with the steps that pipe taps leave.
I am looking to fat finger it. I may have to dig out...

Please enlighten me! How do you do it?
We have a thread we use a lot and have been doing it on the lathes.
It is 20TPI on a 9.5º taper.
We have a need to do this to non-round work in the Haas....

Andreas,
Well, I had the machine some time before I hooked up with my Haas rep. Here is what was wrong with it;
Lots of table hits from drills and end mills.
Tee slots were over-tightened and need...

Anyone here thread mill female threads?

I asked the HAAS answer man, but have gotten no reply.

I don't use a macro, but this is what I use in MDI to find the breech of rifle barrels in the HA5C indexer:
(Edge finder is T1)

T1 M6
S1300 M3
G0 X-1.0 Y0
G43 H01 G0 Z.2

Hit JOG mode X .001...

What djr76 said. I bought a mill from a reputable dealer and it had problems. After I got it my Haas guy looked it up and told me it was "rough."
The first machine I bought about ten years ago was...

Atmo and all,
Success! I am using the parts counter to stop when the bar is finished. Thanks for all your help! - Ray

N10 (initial bar puller to set start point)
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N20 (bar puller to pull...

Atmosports,
I will try it tomorrow. I tried in the past with something like this:

N10
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@100 K10
M30

How do you get an MPF file to loop? I haven't been able to do that.
Regards, Ray

Program an M55 at the start of your SUB program.
Go to Settings, Part Count-Cycle times.
Set the total number of parts to the yield of your bar stock.
Set the number of parts to zero.
The...

I like the Dunham pullers
CNC Bar Puller - Dunham lathe bar pull
Work well in my HiT18S and now in my (new to me) HiT15.
Regards, Ray

I am wondering if there is a better way to program multiple pieces.
I have a MPF that calls an SPF multiple times.
The SPF does the actual machining.
This works OK, but I don't like the way I have...

The software I used is R-Drive Image
Drive Image and Hard Disk Backup Software

Regards, Ray

The drive you need is a 2.5" IDE drive.
Either physical or solid state.
I am still trying to get the name of that cloning software that worked great.
Regards, Ray

I bought 20 drives on ebay and cloned them from the drive that came with my machine. It isn't difficult, but you need the right cables and software.
Here is a link to the cables I bought
USB 2 0 to...

You (or the tech you hire) can go through the back and turn the screws by hand to move the X-Z axii to any position. The tail stock has two hydraulic cylinders that clamp it tight when you have...

Greg,
Thanks for the feed back. I got a couple of nice 3/4 Niagra 3-flute roughers in a batch of tools I bought and I love them.
This job is done, but it comes back several times a year so I am...

I try to, but I forget. G13 usually suffers too.

Yeah, I see that D02 is missing. I often lose a part because I forget the "D."
I am now in the habit of putting the D in right when I call the tool;

T3 D3 M6

I have been meaning to edit the...

JNZ,
When you make that change, watch your old programs on that machine. You may have to reverse the sign on all the Z positions!
Regards, Ray

Like the two replies before mine, I use synthetic also. I have been using 9954 for years. It doesn't have any bio problems and tramp oil won't mix at all. My distributor says it is for ferrous and...

Ken,
Well, after a couple of days with no replies, I decided I might have to sacrfice a cutter to find out where the edge is. I brought up Haas' caculator and started plugging in numbers. I was...

Hello, I am running a job in 6061 that has a .2 deep slot, 12" long and .625 wide.
I drill an entry hole and plunge a 1/2" 2-flute (HHS TIN) to Z-.195 in and then do the G41 thing to a tangent...

Have you measured the actual feed rate or are you just looking at it and guessing?
Regards, Ray

Have you looked in the electrical cabinet? All my Haas machines had small cans of touch up paint.
Regards, Ray

I don't know if this will help, but my C5 indexer has an indexer problem and will error out if it rapids at 100%.
Running the machine at slower rapids costs too much time, so I wrote a macro that...

Color codes for what?

Large tool was a little scarry for me at first. When the large tool is called, it trades a small tool into that pocket. Then when a different small tool is called, the large tool swaps back to it's...

My 18S has a Kitagawa draw bar. There are no prox switches to indicate open or closed. There is a provision for two switches, but they are not present. There are a number of wires available that...