O/T Timid operators

[Rob @ Target Machine]

Toby I hear you.

Why have a 120 tool changer if you're not going to fill it with an array of standard tools--and leave them there?

I have the frustration of trying to program jobs with a 20 tool magazine and the job needs at least 30 tools, while I watch my boss fill a 120 tool magazine with 20 tools for one job 18 for another...

Sorry boss, but I know a better way....

[Rob @ Target Machine]

BTW---Sounds like you could ask some of these guys to go get a "bucket of RPM's" to fill up a machine--and they would come back 20 minutes later to tell you they can't find them. LOL

[Toby-Axis]

MCGuru,

 

It is difficult enough explaining the difference between TiALN for SS and TiN for Aluminum let alone HSM for both materials.

 

Personally 15,000 RPM at 900 IPM is more my cup of tea. Know what I mean??

 

We (as a country) have to stand and deliver if we are to compete with OVERSEAS trading. We must drive for success if we are to stay competitive in todays market.

 

Manufacturing built this COUNTRY and it is time we do what made us GREAT!!!!! MANUFACTURE!!!!!!

 

You have a PM MastercamGuru.

[TK-32™]

it's a 2002 thread and it seems it was written yesterday. You guys have been friends this long?

 

Since our shop acquired their first thru-spindle-coolant VMC I'm having a hear attack every time I proof a program.

I have never used 1 1/2 drills before. So plunging them @ the speeds & feeds recommended seemed so ****ing scary. Yet I did and the sound it does when it breaks the chips made my heart skip every time. 2 years after and I still keep my finger on the HOLD button evry time I proof a program on that machine

[Guest]

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it's a 2002 thread and it seems it was written yesterday. You guys have been friends this long?

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Yes TK-241, they have.

 

Is that so hard to believe?