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I don't even know what the 4.4% tariff is for. Taxes I guess.

"I suppose that this will make a Haas more attractive."

Haas was already attractive.:) I doubt someone with a budget of $15k (a Tormach customer) will go "Oh well, I guess I'll spend $30k instead....

That is strange. There aren't any US companies making lathes or mills in the Tormach range, and there haven't been for quite some time.

I think it is part of the MX spec. Probably because the TTS holders can't really be pushed much harder than they already are. Just a guess though.

Dovetails. The M series is the 3 series with a deeper (Y) table, stronger spindle motor and redesigned stand/enclosure. The MX series is an M series with Servos and an encoder on the spindle. An M is...

It does use a different version (ethernet based) of the controller card than the series 3 uses (serial or parallel based), but I think you can buy it just as easily.

Well, I allowed for $1000 shipping, for a mill, stand, enclosure, and all the pieces.

An 1100 with stand, enclosure, PDB, controller, monitor, keyboard, and arm is $15,000. Add $1000 for shipping, and you are at $16,000. Not sure what tooling is included and if a vise is include, but...

In this case, I think it is like RapidTurn, A single tick encoder.

Right. No servo spindles. Servos on the ball screws.

I don't have the slant-pro, but what happens when you use a negative X?

I think the OP meant 24" total of travel, not necessarily in one cut (the cut in the video was 3"). But obviously, a bigger table is a bigger table. I think the question was basically if the Tormach...

That is kind of crazy when you can buy 1/2" roughers with much greater depth of cut for less than $20. About the price of just one insert on a shear hog.

I second this.

"Instead of being defensive about Tormach or attacking Tormach as some folks seem to falsely think I am doing."

I wasn't being defensive nor did I think you were attacking Tormach. I thought the...

"So how far do you really think your Tormach has to travel before it reaches 110IPM?"

t = v/a
d = 1/2*a*t^2

v = 110/60 = 1.8 ips
a = 15 ipss

t = 1.8 / 15 = 0.12 s
d = 1/2 * 15 * (0.12)^2...

Lol. I just got it. I missed the "per second". Now we are worried about a tenth of a second to accelerate.

I don’t think that figure is correct. That would take 7 seconds to get up to it’s blazing 110ips rapid speed.:) I believe that it accelerates to 110 ips almost instantly (well, fast enough that...

The OP had 0.0045". I agree though, replacing a ball screw for 0.0016" would not be worth it. Unfortunately, in the OP's case, I think he is already committed to replacing the ball screw, since the...

You also have 0.0045" of play in the Y-Axis? From the factory?

Can you go in from the top by removing the Table and X-Axis first?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EchELgqGz-c

Sorry it took so long to reply. I just got a chance this weekend to run a test just like the one on NYCNC, but with the Accusize 1/2" 4FL.
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Btw, I don't have any Lakeshore cutters, but I have an Accusize 1/2" roughing endmill that gives comparable results to the NYC-CNC videos. It isn't carbide though but does show that you should be...

When you say "clean of lubricants" do you mean entirely clean? There are several spots in the drawbar / collet setup that should have lubricant, and doing so can increase the holding force by 70%....

When you say "once a week", do you mean that PP is up and running continuously for the whole week? Or do you start it each day, and once a week during the day, it crashes?

I misspoke earlier. In order to get accurate height results, I use the parallels as the reference. My stock can also vary by 0.05" in thickness, and I just take that into account in Fusion and if the...

Generally, with raw stock, I face the top and bottom, and the resultant width is very close (< .001). If you want to do only one face op, then (as someone suggested) touch off from the parallel...

Do you already own a manual lathe?

I think the issue is that 2.8 is not the "refractive index" of the coolant, it is the multiplying (brix) factor required to convert the reading given by the refractometer to an actual percentage. And...

I stand corrected. I assumed the upgrade was just that, and only those buying new controllers were getting a self sufficient copy of PP 2. This is great news. If I have to reinstall, I don't have to...

The upgrade requires pp 1.9. New controllers ship with pp 2. Since you have a 440, you can get pp from tormach for nothing (or almost nothing) and install it on whatever. Several have installed it on...