Ok. I save my files to an external hard drive. This morning it did an update and changed all permissions. Changed them and it saved my file. Thanks John!

I opened a file sent to me from our engineer. When I go to save it on my computer, it comes up and says permission denied. I am administrator on this computer and my maintenance was updated on 5-20-2015 with a new code. What could be causing this?

As I recall the cutter comp has to be turned on in an x or y move only. You may have to program your cutter to move to your center point first then to z depth then move x or y toward your cut turning comp on. When you finish your cut you have to move in x or y turning comp off then raise z. HTH

You may try using a smaller endmill to rough out and then finish with the 3/8. Depending on your depth of cut, you may need to lower your rpm a little. I ususally get the best results with a .005 per flute chip load.

Is your material sawed out or torched from a larger piece. What we get here is all torched out of a larger piece of plate. All of the torching hardens those sides. We set up and cut our material to size first which removes the scale and hardness from the faces. Then from there it cuts like butter.

Sounds like the voltage is too high. May try dropping it a few notches. Also may try dropping your wire tension down a notch or two.

Is it breaking in the cut or in the take up tube?

Jeff, What we need is basically a standard right angle head that fits a Bridgeport vertical manual mill. But it needs to have an extended nose piece on it that turns the endmill back vertical to cut the keyway parallel to the bore length half the length of the pipe. Thanks for the reply though. See if this helps: Take a piece of pipe and lay it down flat running parallel to the T-slots on a vertical mill (Bridgeport). Now we need to cut a groove in the X axis on the inside of the bore wall that is against the table while keeping the mill head vertical. But the keyway does not cut all of the way from one end to the other. It stops halfway of the length. HTH

Hey guys and gals, We have a machine part to make that has a key cut in the bore. The thing is that the keyway only goes about half the length of the bore and stops. We found a right angle head for CNC, but we are needing one for R-8 manual mill. The one that we found is a Big Kaiser BCV40-AG90. Could someone point me in the direction of a right angle head similar to the Big Kaiser, but for a manual mill. Thanks for any info.

What we always do is make spacers to put on our arbors with keys. Put the spacer on first then the blade with the cap and screw. Our caps are counterbored so that the center doesn't make contact with the arbor before it grips the blade. HTH. Hi-jack: Hey Nathan. How you doing? Long time no see. I took your MC class in 2006.

What I do is put the floppy in and hit F4. It will come up as I believe program 8999 select it and press edit program. It will show all programs on the disk and the extension. HTH.

The double parentheses or it may be the period in the comment. Our Haas will not accept a program that has a period in the comments.

When we have a tool stuck in our Haas we get someone with a deadblow hammer and while one person presses the tool release button the other hits the toolholder on the side to get it to release. We place a box filled about half way with rags under the toolholder, so that when it pops out it has a soft place to land.

I make the tube bending dies for our company and I have never heard of what your boss wants to do. I have my parts setting down flat and cut with a ballnose endmill.

Ok, what I finally did was removed MC and reloaded it and the problem has gone away. I guess it was a setting that got changed that I could not find. Thanks for all of the information and help.