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Changing tool diameter in the Offsets of the mill is useless unless you're using Cutter Comp in your CAM.
Make sure the tool diameter value is correct in your tool library of the CAM you're using....

My first calibration was with that function "all in one calibration" or something like that.
Seemed to do OK. My parts are coming out like they should.

I did watch one of the Haas Tip of the Day...

I have a 2015 VF4 and just took delivery of a new VF2 last week.
Trying to get going on the new control and I must say.. it pretty much sucks.

I like to do my work offsets using the "Single...

Found their website and what looks to be an RO system they offer. It's $495 HERE
Does that look familiar?

How do you like that castrol Syntilo 9954 ?

Tap water here in Houston is a bad idea.
I'm running Qualichem 250 in the mill and it seems to be doing great even after 8 months. I may change it on the year mark as you say "whether it needs it or...

Recently I've started running my mill 10 to 12 hours per day and I'm finding that it's using 4 to 5 gallons of water per day.
Normally I drop in to the local grocery and pick up a few of those 2.5...

I'm about to use a fixture that is 17" x 23" x 1.25" 6061.
Parts will be 100% plastics.
I'm looking for ideas of how to mount to the mill.

Clamp it in two vises with the jaws on the outside?...

Lesson learned!!

I seldom go over 6 to 8 mm in cutter size and ER collets have served me well.
I have a few setscrew holders but didn't have one in 5/8". Rather than sink more money into a job...

Thanks everyone for the comments and tips.
I ended up going with a shorter collet chuck holder, ramping the feed down to around 30in/min at 3000rpm and running coolant.
Cut the entire second plate...

The first collet was toast for sure, the inner diameter was mangled by the collet breaking inside and spinning for the few seconds before I stopped the machine.
I tossed the second as well, never be...

I was hoping for more advice, less insults.

I own the shop and my father has been dead for a few years.
Upper Middle Class? I retired from a $200K plus job if that qualifies.

I am not a...

Been trying to cut some steel using 5/8 end mill.
Cut one without much drama then started on the second. Broke the end mill. Probably due to chatter as it was chattering pretty bad. Broke off in the...

The mill has been running almost non-stop since the calibration. No problems. Well no problems from the Mill, plenty from the operator.
Had a 5/8" end mill just break in the middle of cutting, broke...

Probe was tight, batteries are good.
The values in the macro variables were hosed.
Seems that evening I had a tiny power surge, like a brown out. Just enough to make my UPS click on and off. I...

haastec, you are the man.

I ran through the probe calibration and all went well.
I clamped a 123 block to the bed and probed a corner of it. jogged away from the part then G90 G00 G54 X0 Y0 and...

In the past I've used the probe to set my offsets and as a sanity check I always use my G54 readout to position the tool at 0,0 and check to see if it's on the corner I just probed.
I also do this...

Came down with he flu for the first time in ages. Forgot how hard it can be so the past week has been bed rest.
Now I've got my steel back from being annealed and getting ready to clamp it in the...

Bunch of heat treating businesses in the area. I'll call one on Monday to get an estimate.
Annealing - take to 1550F and drop 50F every hour until it hits 900F then remove and let air cool.
Best to...

Really? You think it will be that bad?
I don't have a torch or oven but I can probably borrow a torch, Get a rose bud and heat it up. Something like 400 to 500 for a few minutes?

Well, looked up...

that was my original suggestion to him.
Plasma cut the letters and weld them to the plate.
He doesn't want that. I'm not sure why and I didn't ask him.
He's pretty set on having them milled out...

Friend of mine wanted me to machine some plate for him. He wants some raised letters 1/4" high cut from 1/2" plate, sort of a reverse engrave.
First problem is the plate is A36 steel, second is it's...

Working on a small project and looking through my stock I see that I have multiple varieties of thickness from 12 to 13 mm.
I wanted to face it all down to the proper thickness and I'm thinking to...

MacTec54. The conversion chart drives my point home.
Wouldn't need that if everything was metric.
Hours saved converting this and that.. even if you're not mixing metric and imperial. Simply the...

I've had my mill a few months and my lathe at least a month and I'm tired of having to convert fractions to decimal to decide what tool to cut what and what corner radius to use to suit my tools.
...

Seems HSM thinks drilling and tapping are mill operations and this screws up the path generation for turning.
The solution suggested is to edit the Post Processor.

Find the line that reads...

I've been trying to cut a simple part using Fusion360.

no matter what settings / strategy I use, I always see rounded corners on the simulation and G3 calls in the profiling section.. On a...

Erus,

Thank you for the valuable information.
The jaws are the stock jaws that come with the HAAS ST-10. The chuck is Samchully so I assume the jaws are made by the same company??

I was a...

Just got my ST-10 a few weeks ago.
Up till now I have been turning stock that is plenty large for the parts I'm making.
Last night I went to turn some drill rod. The drill rod is 1/2" and the part...

Yes, what you said in Post 10 is correct.
As you can see in post 12, I agreed with you and set out to use your method.
Merely had to work around the fact that there is no way of manually setting...

Tried it this morning.

Probed from the left and right using the "Manual" selection in IPS.
Only jogging the Z axis to get from one side to the other. Don't change the X as it seems to have an...