I've got a SQT10M and I'm trying to make a bunch of little parts using a bar puller. I seem to hit hard spots in the material and I'll break 10 endmills in 20 parts then run 200 parts with a single endmill. After an endmill breaks though the machine continues to make parts which are all scrap. I can't be there watching it all the time to check the tooling, and anyone who has ever run a SQT lathe knows you can't hear ANYTHING when that mill spindle is running!
I know the mills have some sort of macro that checks the tool length at certain intervals and alarms out if something doesn't match up. Is there any similar cycle that uses the tool eye on the lathe, possibly before the bar is pulled but after the part drops? I've read the entire Mazatrol programing book for the T plus controller and don't recall reading anything like that. I haven't gotten to the real programming book yet though...
Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about or where to start looking to figure this out?
Thanks!