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Lay off coffee dude. If you are doing 3D contouring and stuff you can easily get programs that are over 2MB, what then? Then you start jumping through the hoops. On my live tooling lathe I had single...

I have not used Doosan Mill but I do have Doosan Lynx lathe and Haas Mini Mill. The biggest problem with Doosan is the memory size, look very closely into that. Haas ships with 1GB of memory...

Mine will get much better after warming up, but I can tell you that if your issue is same as mine, it will get worse and worse. I would love to see detailed written procedure for...

I take it you haven't gotten anywhere with this?

Mine is as noisy as ever and annoys me to no end.

If I remember mine started with tick-tick and slowly progressed to this...

Your plan of attack sounds good, I looked into all that...

Michael, I have what is possibly the same issue with my Slant Pro. Tormach was useless in getting this fixed and now I live with this until something breaks catastrophically. Tormach entertained me...

Suddenly everyone is making or wants to make knives. Its going to be harder and harder. Before making investment in machinery I would advise you to first research and develop your market. What worked...

Ah yes, that's not going to work for Mini Mill, I wish it had configuration like that. :-(

Yes please photos would be perfect. Have to address this.

Hi Jim, where exactly did you place the fiberglass screen? Inside the mill at the bottom? Do you have auger?

I have sent that question to my Haas dealer, haven't heard back from them yet.

Yeah, unfortunately lot of chips end up in there even on small run of 100 parts we make and draining coolant and filtering it is just not going to happen, not productive or sustainable. Fastest so...

How do you guys deal with chips in coolant tank on Mini Mill? I am finding that even on small production runs of 80-100 parts ton of chips end up in coolant tank which leads to clogged nozzles and...

I use 303 and WNMG inserts. Use constant surface speed: 203 ft/min (62m/min). Feed per revolution 0.01" (0.254mm), roughing step down to 0.0315" (0.8mm) I set maximum spindle speed to 1500.
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Enclosure on 440 leaks like sieve, its ridiculous. There is no using that enclosure with flood coolant. It leaks on the bottom, it leaks through those front doors. Heck I have chips coming out with...

I have new Haas Mini Mill. Love it, no problems so far, works great. Its pumping out the parts.

Lets just say that has not been my experience and I have two Tormach machines and a Haas mill... I would never buy Tormach for professional use.

I don't think they have any chance or space in "Professional" market. These are simply not professional level machines reliability wise. Its not professional level support. When you have machine...

Found Royal Filtermist products. Looks great, but 3-phase power is no go for even a smaller unit :-(

Anyone can recommend good mist collector/filter for the enclosure, preferably so its easily mounted on that 4" opening they have on top of enclosure? I am aware of Mistaway but those are huge, way...

Also, make sure you calibrate probe tip so it runs true otherwise your measurements with the probe will be off.

See this video for good overview on how to calibrate probe:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKZoP9mZ744&t=515s

The only thing that was done there is gibs were played with and adjusted. It is possible to tighten gibs so much to minimize this but then you have trouble with way too much lost motion and steppers...

Nope... As you can see still there...

So Y lead screw has been exchanged, behavior of machine has changed, but there is still same problem. This time it shows up as table comes back and closer to the Y stepper, here is video. Anyone with...

I'd love if you could elaborate on this bit more please.

Very nice, I envy you :-) I wish I had space for ST10 and one or two VFs.

Here is another video on gib adjustment, its for different machine but its different approach:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqQ3HzoSnUc

I have tried this and adjusting gibs this way results...

Yes, watched that before, that's the reason I am thinking that I should be able to seize the axis with gib adjustment. He can. On my machine, impossible.