Hi Tom,
Wondering if there might be some way to adjust the point at which the machine switches from rapid to feed when peck drilling. Like start feeding some amount (0.050" maybe) above the previous drilled depth after retracting to clear chips. Is there any clearance now or does it rapid right to where it left off?
Occasionally when peck drilling larger holes, I seem to run into problems with chips falling into the hole, and then crashing into them on the next peck. This week I was drilling a deep 21mm hole in steel and this happend a couple times and damaged my spindle bearings.
I think the mazak I used to run at my last job had a parameter to adjust this. Would be nice if we could do the same.
Mark