o/t I Love my job!

[mike_f]

This is what its all about. I just recieved an Iscar Heliturn to test. .25 d.o.c., 600 sfm, .035 ipr ( not .0035 but .035 ). material 1045, 1.5" hex stock. Chips hittin' the inside of the guard like freekin bullets, operators duckin' 5 machines away, heads stickin' out from around corners thru the whole shop. This is way cool I'm about to crank it up to 800 sfm and .04 per rev. ( I feel like a kid in a candy store). Just had to tell someone, can't let the operators see me havin' this much fun. hope someone else is havin' some fun today.

[McRae]

I have done the same - great piece of tooling here.

 

The limit is approaching a shoulder, if you have an agressive doc (around .400 radial) the chips may pinch between the tool and the shoulder of the workpiece and thus breaking the tool.

 

Otherwise, turn up the sfm and top out at 700 - too much more and the insert will get too hot!

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Wooooooo, hooooooooo!!! Nothin beats that sound. Bosses like that sound too usually. It's like the sound of a Jack Pot in a Casino!!!

 

Have fun!!!

[David Czerw Triumph Gear Systems]

cool

[lou]

Hi Mike, I just bought the Iscar Feed Mill taking .050 per tooth in P-20 at 230ipm. They say I can cut up to .130 per tooth but I stalled the machine trying to do that. I loved it so much I bought 2 of them.

[Brendan P]

We just tried this same tool with 600 sfm and .037 feed .200 doc. on 14" dia. A-36 steel.

Chips were flying and smoke filled the building.

(coolant smoke that is)

 

We cut our tool cycle time by more than 1/2!

 

Then the welders started to cry about the smoke.........

The tool is great for ruffing.

 

BTW......I also love my job!

[Camdude®]

ROFL, " the welders started crying about the smoke." that's a good one

[crazy^millman]

Yeah been there done that. I use to do these 4150Ht stub shafts. I would keep the spindle at 105% for 25 minutes and then it would get down to 85% when it got down to the 2-15/16" size. Funny how steam you can produce when cutting on a shaft for 45 minutes and doing 44 of them at a time. It would be 20 degrees outside and we would have to open all the door to get the steam out everyone was pissed. I would just always say sorry about your bad luck.

[TheePres]

Ive got them popcorn scars on my chest, from chips flying down my shirt. Courtesy of you CRAZY Programmers.

[crazy^millman]

Hey I wore my battle scars from hot chips sucks when it bounces off your face hits your saftey glasses then bounces right into your eye lid hurts like he?? but greatfully didn't hit your eye.

[Shady]

"Then the welders started to cry about the smoke........."

 

Lmao.......+1000

 

Glad to see that welders are still crybabies ...no matter where you go!! I thought it was just the 20 or so that work here !!!

 

~~~~~Shady

[Brendan P]

You got that right Shady.

They are all cry-babies.

[mike_f]

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Glad to see that welders are still crybabies ...no matter where you go!! I thought it was just the 20 or so that work here !!!

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Hey, its stressful having to hold +/- 1/8 of an inch all day, cut em some slack man J/K

( I'll probably find my car doors welded shut after work for that one)

[Mike Mattera - TFM]

Give me big cuts with a big cutter on a big machine any day . Big blue 6's in a hot steaming pile. Well I guess the hot steaming pile doesn't sound that good , but pushing a machine and cutter to it's limits is always fun .

 

Mike Mattera