Another new toy

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Jobs Ever7 Gantry Mill

http://www.jobs.it/eng/eVer7?ct=1396583418215

 

Should be here just in time for Christmas

[Zoffen]

ooooooo you get all the cool toys! super jelly!

 

what kind of heads did you get with it?

[Eric@HorsepowerInc.]

Impressive, to say the least.

[Newbeeee™]

I looked at the picky and thought that was a new garage to park your car in!!!

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ooooooo you get all the cool toys! super jelly!

 

what kind of heads did you get with it?

 

a heavy duty 5X, a heavy duty right angle and a 3X head.

I'm trying to talk them onto a high speed electric 5X head, but it's $250k

and we're already over budget.

[CADCAM3D5AXIS]

Nice Hardware G you guys must be doing pretty well with all the new hardware purchases. Cool Stuff!

[BenK]

Now that would be a fun toy to have.

[JAMMAN]

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Nice Hardware G you guys must be doing pretty well with all the new hardware purchases. Cool Stuff!

 

I think we're done buying new toys for now.

They're putting a 3.5meter VTL together in the back building next week

and a huge TOS hbm is due this summer.

The Okuma 5X vtl is on the road and will be here next week.

CNC Apps Guy will be here next week to train us on our new Toyoda bridge mill

and the new OKK 3X vmc is up and running.

 

We're still looking for a top gun programmer.

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Its very slow.. It took nearly 10 minutes to download a 1 meg brochure.

I sure hope that gantry mill runs better than their webpage

[Joe788]

Crazy machine. What kind of volumetric accuracy is to be expected on a machine that size?

[GoetzInd]

Cute little bugger isn't she

 

Mike

[GIZMO 21]

 

CNC Apps Guy will be here next week.

 

We're still looking for a top gun programmer.

 

If you mean james lock him in there don't let him out

[Goldorak]

nice , you don't even need to unload the flat bed truck , just park it in the machine and cut the part in place

[MIL-TFP-41]

rack drive on all axis...interesting.

[Mic6]

Uggh....still, all I want is an HA5C indexer.

[GoetzInd]

rack drive on all axis...interesting.

 

Yeah I think they've made some pretty good advances with dual motors to electronically pre-load the drive. Can you imaging a ball screw that long....

 

Mike

[MATT Q]

want bad!

[Newbeeee™]

Yeah I think they've made some pretty good advances with dual motors to electronically pre-load the drive. Can you imaging a ball screw that long....

 

Mike

Or the lathe/grinder that makes it

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the web page says

electronic backlash compensation and pressurized glass scales.

Its not a jig bore, but it should be pretty accurate

It rapids at 1200ipm... pretty scary

[Zoffen]

a heavy duty 5X, a heavy duty right angle and a 3X head.

I'm trying to talk them onto a high speed electric 5X head, but it's $250k

and we're already over budget.

 

holy xxxx the 5 ax high speed head is 250K!?!!

 

How much are the other heads just for comparison? seems like 1/4mil is alot for a head!

[BenK]

I think we're done buying new toys for now.

They're putting a 3.5meter VTL together in the back building next week

and a huge TOS hbm is due this summer.

The Okuma 5X vtl is on the road and will be here next week.

CNC Apps Guy will be here next week to train us on our new Toyoda bridge mill

and the new OKK 3X vmc is up and running.

 

We're still looking for a top gun programmer.

 

You get all the fun toys to play with. I would love to work on some large machines like that, if I could move to cali I would throw my hat in the ring.

[CADCAM3D5AXIS]

^ Rent a Truck and start packing ^

[taperlength]

I could see parking the car in there and in five minutes have a convertible

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The thing I like about this machine is that the X axis ways and scales are up in the air

safe from contamination by chips and coolant.

Our existing machine is a traveling column (Jomach) and the X axis scales are constantly

getting contaminated with chips.