Looks like I'm going to pull the trigger and order the Slant Pro tomorrow! Should arrive the week after Thanksgiving. Man... I've got some serious re-arranging to do to pull this off.
The Body Armor Dude - Andrew
Looks like I'm part of the Slant Pro owners club!!! Just hit the order button! Now I have that funny feeling of needing to puke mixed with a 5 year old waiting for Christmas morning....
The Body Armor Dude - Andrew
Taking on debt or losing that much capital to investment is never too much fun. It's called growing pains.
Congratulations. While it is not top of the line nor even middle of the road, it is a good capable and versatile machine.
How will you outfit it?
Lee
The good thing for me is that it's not going to be a debt item. I sold a couple of other pieces of equipment that I was not using and am rolling that money into the lathe.
Right now I'm ordering it pretty much plain Jane with Tool post, collet closer and gang tooling. Figure if the work keeps increasing I'll add the ATC next year and possibly the enclosure. The good news is that I've got plenty of work to feed it and it will allow me to run both the mill and the lathe at the same time. Right now I'm running the Rapid Turn which means I have to stop milling. Several parts I run are mill first op then turned on rapid turn. Now I can just keep cranking away on the mill and load/run the second op on the lathe.
The Body Armor Dude - Andrew
The enclosure is well worth the money!
Nice, sounds about right, the shock of a large purchase wears off and you get busy making a spot for the tool, along with room on work benches to un-box and assemble the purchase. I have been on the upgrade cycle for a year now, recently with a new efficient 155 max psi air compressor with a 120 psi low cycle so I can adjust my pdb to the high end psi cycle and not the low cycle of 100- psi of my current 20 year old compressor. Also upgrading cad $oftware and so far this looks like a major step UP in my game. Apparently I have been using this same tool far to long and working in the dark ages so to speak. I'm in shock at what I can design now and how long it takes to design it.
My new Slant Pro is on the truck and will be delivered today!!!!! :banana::banana::banana:
The Body Armor Dude - Andrew
There might be one in the DFW area. Info to follow soon.
I received mine a couple of weeks ago, I don't have a lot of spare time at the moment, yesterday I indicated the turret and took a test facing cut, it is spot on without any shims! I was quite happy with that
after reading the instructions relating to using the shims. The instructions about using the supplied tool and running the lathe in reverse are not really very easy to follow, when i put the tool into the turret it was that far above centre
that there was no hope of cutting anything? So I just used the turning and facing tool that I bought and ran the spindle forward.Enclosure today!
Will
I noticed it was updated on craigslist just a few days ago again, maybe its still for sale. Having just updated to new cad software and few other things my tool budget is blown for a while. On the other hand I enjoy my mill so much more having modern cad software linked into my cam software. The cost and I mostly didn't want to dedicate the time to learn new cad software and cam software at same time, but now that I changed I wish I had not waited this long. Makes drawing a part model or a huge assembly pretty fast and not near the amount of time I was putting in before. That frees up time for cam and shop time. Just need to be careful now its super easy to draw 3d models that more less cant be made very easy if at all.