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Thank you! I am using the Tormach general post for fusion, but can modify it fairly well most of the time. Can you share a sample code showing end of tool 1 into tool 2 so I can see what i’m missing?...

I'm new to PP but have it mostly figured out on the 24R router I just started using last week. Making great parts and very happy. Except with the tool touch off. I hope I'm just being dense and...

Definitely kind of silly to run a vac that costs 3x or more than the machine itself does to operate when it's not needed. I'm super weird about set up times on things since it's a business and the...

Brilliant and simple. I ordered a couple t slot tracks from Amazon to test out. Should be able to just make a fixture that uses those on MDF to hold our engraving fixtures and removes easily to be...

I'll let you know when I'm finished inventing it ;) Basically just a huge steel cabinet with X axis table and Y axis hanging from V shaped rails (all made in house) with 4 sandblast guns pointed...

Well, sort of. I did buy one last Tuesday but hadn’t gotten a shipping notice, tracking or call from the shipping company. Nice surprise new machine day.

Wasn’t sure if this should be elsewhere...

That was a classic case of buying the wrong tool for the job and then being upset. He obviously has absolutely no idea what he was doing in buying that machine to make that park. I have a Haas TM to...

Do you run a warm up sequence that slowly increases the spindle speed while moving the head and table around? On my dovetail machines I ran one every morning then re-home. If they sat for a while I'd...

I never bought into the offline measuring on my X3 nor Tormach. It takes seconds to measure on the machine and of all the places to save seconds, that's just not where I want to save them.

On my...

That shank wasn't properly hardened. It was soft to wear in such a manor. Knock off, of maybe made on Friday... Fridays in China make for solf Chinesium.

just a thought: jog the z without a tool down as far as it was when you made that cut. Put an indicator off the table touching the nose. pull down on the head and see if you can get a thou or three...

Yes the size of a vise refers to the width of the body of the vise. So a 4 inch Vise is 4 in wide however the opening between jaws when opened all the way varies from model to model and manufacturer...

Funny timing! I just went back to using a Haimer after 4 years of Renishaw wireless only for all set ups on the Haas. The new Speedio is production only so no need to waste a tool pocket or money on...

Yep. Exactly this.

I bought a Haas TM2P which isn't THAT much faster than a Tormach on spindle but my 1100 still sat unused for most of a year before I finally sold it. I needed something faster...

Ray likely means that reduced shank is weaker than non reduced shank of the same length and is correct, they would be VERY marginally weaker, but that is an irrelevant fact.

Apples to Apples...

I wasted well over $1,000 trying different recommended fancy brands and cutter geometries trying to find a 1/4" EM that could reach 1.25" deep. SNAP. SNAP. SNAP. SNAP. one after another they all...

I looked at both. $10,000 price difference pays for all the tools I need with $8,000 left over which is 12% of another DT2. the actual quote with probe and options only comes out to $66K for the DT2...

while there are there are quite a few other factors but yes you are absolutely 100% correct all other things being equal. I run the exact same programs on my haas tm2p and my om2a. At least the...

+1 for parabolic. If you are doing production on AL parabolic lets the chips out so less pecks and more fastererer. Gwiz tends to be WAY to low of a chip load on AL for drilling. It wants to make...

Yep. A collet is not a necessary or standard part of any cnc. You typically would buy a collet set or use r8 integrated tooling. Obviously most users of tormach use TTS and most of those buy a...

Create spline from curve. Select geometry. Then break and select the resolution you would like be it 0.001 lines or 0.005 (5x less).

I use this to break high resolution tiny pasts down to offset a...

^^^ Yep ^^^

Or if the plate is bigger than your travels plan a hole in a location that doesn't get covered up (preferably) and set as zero. Say 0.25 from home position. Drill and ream the hole...

The mounts are just to stop it from falling off but MUST allow it to VIOLENTLY move up and down when actuated. If not LOOSE it would bind on the left bolt as it moved, fail to release, engage or get...

Very true. 95% of my tapping (about 10K/year) are on the Haas rigid tapped. The rest are in a cordless drill if I am making fixtures or random junk. I do have a SWEET tap handle that I get excited...

Steve is rights except I prefer form taps on the CNC for production. I throw my 2-56 form tap out ever 5-6 THOUSAND blind holes. No bird nest on the thing like you end up with when using spiral...

LOL. I never had the pleasure

Wrong words courtesy of Tapatalk and Voice To Text. You bar well come.

I will add that I think starting on a manual machine made me a better machinist when I built my first CNC. by now it would have averaged out so did it make me better? No. I started on an X3 CNC...

$4,200 lesson that the Haas jog away feature REQUIRES a Z jog too. I jogged only Y to inspect. Without the Z it didn't call the tool offset and rapid into the part while ramping up spindle to 6K rpm....

May be semantics, and I've not built a shirline, but 'tight' = backlash. Loose equals less backlash but less rigidity and more vibration. Loosen the gibs (or whatever it has). Oil all sliding...

Is leadshine the name of the E stop switch?? If you 'think' the estop burned out just test it and replace it.

You can have another stop button today from McMaster Carr. The wires either connected...