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I am going to say about $20,000.

Am I close?

entry level lathe $3,000 full lathe $5,000
as far as learning its not that difficult as long as you have some one you can call that has half a brain

that could be you could run the spindle without cutting for awhile and see if it stinks or not.

dow frost is a heat transfer fluid and you mix 50-50 with distiled water it takes the heat out of the spindle bearings.If it leaks, its a good idea to fix the leak the thrust bearings should be...

it is probably the rv anti freeze you are supposed to use dow frost call your dealer to get some and the smell might go away

I used a pic off the web then used rast2vect in the run user settings and had a two d drawing then used that to create the surface. You could use the 2d drawing for the cut out.

heres a test

How do you take a screan shot? And I would be glad to.:)

No problem I just learned how to use art myself. I think its real fun and going to be a usefull tool. How do you like it?

You need to x-form art base surface - shift art model below z zero

No problem any time

you have an 8. inch thread pitch ya thats 8. inch's it should be .125 thread pitch

You still did not say if you have any experience with them. The machine comes from the factory with a one year warranty on the machine and two year on the control so at least they give a good...

does gibbs have any generic posts meaning one that is not machine specific?

try a generic fanuc that should be real close you should not have to change the machine settings

Do you have any experience with one? We have a 2000 hit 15s that we have ran for 7 years with very little problems. We just got an 07 skt 21 because of the other one being such a good reliable...

Is anyone running a Hyundai KIA skt21 with a fanuc oit-c control?



Thanks again to the admin for starting this forum

that part is called a bridge i think, i have not delt with 7500 rpm spindles but on my 10000 rpm yes you need it try fadalcnc.com they can get the parts and tool for you and price is good to

yep 8 places is a bit out there

first i only said 5 places lol if you look in the config. of mastercam you can adjust how many you go lookingforhelp said his posted prog. only whent to
.001 that may be in the post or it may be in...

check mastercam to see if it is set for 5 decimal places on the cad end of things

also check for proper pully allinement thats how we fixed ours

I have cut a lot of HDPE my mills only have 10000 rpm but if I had more rpm i could go faster I can run 175 ipm with 10000 rpm I would recomend start there and work up more rpm then ipm just keep an...

just use the generic fanuc post i did this it works well

fadal has box ways dont know about quaser but haas is linier i have ran both haas and fadal my personal pref. is fadal some might think i'm wrong but thats what i like they are about the same price

that worked great all i had to use was DO1 at the start and END1 after my M12
thank you very much for the info

thanks for the reply i will try it and see

what cad-cam software do you have

check with a local collage about taking a class

does anyone know the code for looping the program to run until part count is up on a fadal it is L100 at the start and L101 at the end