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As I was leaving they had some air filter units that they were installing sitting on the shipping dock... They had a blower motor and a roll of filter media. As the pressure difference would build,...

as long as the evaporator is completely under the oil, and you have insulated lines running to and from the tank, it should be good... however then you have oil leeching/wicking back up whatever...

Take it slow starting off, you have a decent machine so that should make learning easier. First and foremost, clean, clean, clean. A stainless steel wire brush, used only for welding aluminum, and...

Rather then milling, could you make a positive, then use silicone, or some other castable compound to make your negitive mold? That way, if you can make your part, you can make your mold.

As for the live center/dead center, a live center has a bearing in it allowing the tip of it touching the part to rotate with it, where a dead center is just a taper to fit in the tail stock with a...

The machine shop I worked at used mistbusters on most of their high-speed machines. We used blaser coolant too, not sure which line though.

Other then needing periodic cleaning they worked fine....

I dont see why you couldnt if you could adapt the electrodes or a whole plasma cutting gun.

I suspect they use higher voltage lower amperage in plasma cutters because of cheaper...

D class extinguishers are for metals, K class are for grease fires.

Definitely either use a D-class or dont use one at all. Water, CO2, and in some cases, even sand can make magnesium fires worse,...

So you just want to use them to scribe the glass with the spindle off? or on?

Valid point, if you aren't using enough coolant to sweep away the chips, and depending on how enclosed your 'enclosure' is. The fadal's Ive seen would just make a mess with this wouldn't nearly be as...

How so? Ive seen them used quite successfully on a few vertical mills. They clean off excess coolant in production work.
Load the fan, spin it up, move down, move across the table a few times to...

At the last place I worked for, we milled material that we couldnt use coolant that would require cleaning.

We used a kool-mist sprayer fed with rubbing alcohol. On an open machine it would be...

That all depends on your work matl. It your working on stainless or something similar with ceramic inserts, sparks are to be expected. If you have aluminum sparking on the other hand...

the last place I worked for got 5 of them from methods. (well, depending on what you mean by new... we got them ~ 1 year ago...) they work very well, fast and consistent. We used pallet changers with...

oh cmon you know you wanna map out the screw with the indicator .01" at a time, for all 4 feet of the screw :rainfro:

I believe ballbars are just for checking everything overall afterwards, Ie, making sure everything is working smoothly together, not just measuring the ball screws. Laser interferometers can be used...

Ive worked with matsuuras, and fanuc Robodrills, the matsuuras were great, fast, heavy duty machines. The robo drills we used for things we needed high speed VMCs for. Only problems we had were with...

they look big enough to put some ice in and put a 12 oz can in them ;)

That sounds like very good resolution, can it actually extude that small, or even close? The rapid prototyping machine I've worked with could extrude a .020 or so bead of nylon I believe, the X and Y...

This was on a gantry machine, and the A axis pivots the spindle, and only has 240 degrees of travel (120 from 0 in each direction) and it did have limit switches, one for each limit. I see your point...

ok I tried it out, I had a 4" long tool in a tool holder, and put a .001 dial indicator on the table with a magnetic base. I was measuring 3" or so down from the spindle face, still on the tool...

I could also try it on one of the thermwoods at work too, but I think I would need to make sure I use a dial indicator because my last word indicator might not have enough travel :p

Though, we...

Does a G92 work for that? In our thermwood routers at work, we set the tools with a 5" block and use a G92 Z5.0 to set the Z coordinate. I'm not sure if a G92 has to do the other axes at the same...

Were you pushing on the spindle itself or the side of the head? I think I surprused myself by how much one of the Fadals at work had in it, but I didnt take note of how much. I'll try it in one of...

Looks like Fanuc released their newest version of their 3d vision smart end effector. :cool:


As much as Ive seen the 5-axis routers crash at work for no apparent reason, I would pass on a ride...

main thing the concerns me there is 'old' remember how old AOL CDs used to shatter into thousands of pieces instead of breaking into two?

I would avoid acrylic sheeting, cracks too easy... As for polycarbonate/lexan it definitely is tough, but large sheets can get expensive. if you want just a viewing port, I would get some black iron...

Might not need a ton when youre working with wood, but when you're working with composites and trying to hold +- .010, it gets interesting...

Either you have it isolated or you dont... If you have it 'poorly isolated' then any static will follow that path, waiting to kill whatever it can first. Grounding the frame will keep any voltages...

very nice work... we need better dust extraction for our CNC router at work.. 4" line feeding who knows how many feet back to the blower. Barely collects dust, let alone any of the larger pieces...