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... production work with a bonus for exceeding a certain number of parts per day....

Bonus would be nice... We dont get a thing for chopping times, union shop with the petty politics which go along with it. On a personal level i just cant (or should i say have a hard time) seeing somthing which i know can run better and just let it sit there un-touched.

I now, working 2nd shift is pain but if you get a chance check-out Iscars website and look at the 16mill by the way don't worry about that dayshifter were not that bad :cheers:

This what your talking about ?
Looks interesting, but all these round tools with more then one insert look neat to me right now
As time goes by and if they keep me on the machine, ill do some research and maybe suggest some new tools, gotta get the programing down first. And for the record, day-timers... slack :stickpoke cant undersand how little can get done with all the "bosses" walking around been working nights for over ten years now and never understood that. Its all good between me and my partner, hes a good guy.

Anyway...
Was able to play alittle, but like i said, its a production environment so i couldnt spend too much time (alittle each night).

With what you posted AJL i had to change the ramp off because it alarmed out, aside from that it worked good.
Liked how it ramped on the part, but (and i should have said this before) how we are holding the part it would be best to feed from the top down rather then from the side. When i have more time im gonna juggle your numbers around and feed from the top. I think the day-guy will like that also if the G3 J-2. lines dont through him off (hes been looking at the same program(s) for the last two - three years, i cant go and turn his world compleatly up-side-down, he's a good guy and we get along good).

Heres what i used and it took 00:01:13 from M1 to M1

G0 X6. Y0 S600
Z0
G3 X0 Y2. I-4.4923 J-3.4768 F30. (RAMP ON)
G3 J-2. (RGH)
G3 J-2. S1500 (SPRING)
G3 X-6. Y0 R5.6805 (RAMP OFF)
G0 Z1.

With what you posted Geof, it ran with no problem, i did change the Z.05 to Z.02
The op time on that was 00:01:34

AJL's gave alittle better finish (was able to kick up the spindle speed for the spring pass) but left ramping marks, Geof's looked good and better then the Orginal, but in the end and as ugly as it is, the following worked the best, nice finish and no ramping marks.

Full clip from the op. if any one is intrested.

N016 G0 B90. 
N017 G54.1 P02 
N018 S600 M03
N019 G00 X-3.25 Y5.5 M08 
N020 G43 H02 Z0.75
N021 Z0.375 
N022 G1 Z.005 F25. (LEAVE FOR SKIM PASS)
N023 Y0. F30.
N024 G3 X-3.25 Y0. I3.25 J0. F30. (ROUGH)
     G0 X-6. Z.032 (GET OFF PART)
     G1 Z0. S1750 F47.5 (FINISH SPEED, FEED & DEPTH)
     X-3.25 (FEED BACK ON PART)
N025 G3 X-3.25 Y0. I3.25 J0. (FINISH/SPRING)
     G1 X-3. Y-1. Z.001 (SLIDE OFF PART WITH NO MARKS)
N026 G0 Z0.75
N027 G53 Z0. M09

You guys have been a big help, thanks, even thouhg i was not able to use your ideas in full here, they will be combinded and used down the road.

Thanks again.

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