let see. first i'll have to turn on the lights. ok here is a starter list. stable room temp chilled coolant spindle cooled chip conveyor super filtered coolant carbide tools for every thing diamond or cbn coat touch probes laser toolsetter with tool break detector coolant level monitors mist collectors chip flush with shower spindle vibration monitor fixtures the best you can buy or build tight MC programs very precice feeds and speeds tool life management roll tapping and thread milling ballanced toolholders air compressors with backup time to turn the lights out 35k

running lights out sense 1998. thats when i started here!!!

Yes we anneal 5530 at 400deg F 4hour ramp to 400 deg hold at 400 for 4hrs ramp down to ambient at 50 deg per hour. this material will maintain its properties up to 500 deg F and yes its plastic !!!!!!! 35k chipper

We machine it everyday. carbide drills and diamond coated endmills from harvey tools. it will chip with dull tools. the 5530 torlon is hydroscopic and will change dimensions when it drys out you can bake it to speed up the dry out. we do this when we have to hold +/-0.0001 this material in expensive. hope this helps. 35k chipper

Dwayne, i did this before. i had to add a profile on the edge of an existing part that was 65RC A6 tool steal. i ground a small wheel by mounting it in a tool holder and mounted the diamond dresser to the table at 90deg to the wheel. i created the tool path in the front view. created the profile with lead in and lead out. then i translated the geo. about .0005 in x about 40 times then i connected the end points with line to give me a one tool path. chained the tool path top view in incremental with the plain mask off and comp off. i hope this helps. 35k chipper

Kevin seco tools had a program you could download for there thread mills that had the highbee option in it. worked well. have not used in years. i think its still on an old p3 computer. 35k

Chris try www.misumiusa.com lots of threaded dowel pins. hope this helps. 35k

eric 1/8 27 npt thread mill it... 35k

eric i use an er tap collet rigid all the way. no oil just coolant. i do M0 to blow chips from the drill holes. i'm tapping 0.200 deep. 50 holes 35k

many times you don't design the part you just make it!!!!!!!!

I use a lot of small metric roll taps in alum. rigid tapping with taps .9mm to 1.4mm in inch mode. on a 1.4mm x .3 i use 1500 rpm at .01181102 pitch. my control will take 8 dec. places. with small taps .0001 ether way is alot. at your depth of .130 deep or 11 revolutions or .0011 . use more places if your control will handle it. i start at .05 above the hole. i use a 1.25mm carbide circuit board drill for the hole. hope this helps 35k

Cimcool LF60 at 5% destiny 3flt viper,s stealth coating 1400 ipm 35000 rpm all aluminum. 35k

here one for ya destiny .5 3flute viper stealth at 30,000 rpm 1400 ipm .05 doc 90% radial mat. 6061 all day long end mill lasts about 100 hrs then i pass it on to the 8000 rpm group. my.02 worth. 35k chipper.

lanart i use mpsuprep everyday for several different machines. its been modified a great deal but i've used it sense version 7 its the only post we use. it has been modified for different machine types. it can post as a subrep or with out. it will let you tell it the subrep distance in x or y and you can tell each tool how many times to repeat. if you turn off the subrep options it looks like a regular post. it will let you start with any wcs and sub out from there. it will let you mix subreps. lets say i have a part with singular features and multi pockets on a grid of known spacing. so i sub the singles one time and the multi pockets say 12 times - post done !!! again we use this post every day , 14 machines 3 programmers. the post has been upreved all along up to the latest MC release. my $0.02 worth. 35k chipper

James, .net3 is on this pc. must have happened with the last 2 or4 winXPpro patches. is x2 mr2 using it. i have had no problems.

then does this means i can change my maintenance upgrade date to 02/31/08 !!!

hope this is released before 8/31/07 the day our maintenance expires. it will make it easer to sell the reason for maintenance to corporate again !!!!. look at all the upgrades we got for last years maintenance. 35k chipper

thanks, 35k chipper

Greg, use the mpsubrep post. run tool path one time and let the post handle the rest. you can run 1 part with the block skip on or as many as your control will allow with it off. 35k chipper

would like 20 misc integers and 20 misc. reals on two pages. one for integers and one for reals

koto, Age? what does that have to do with learning something new!!!!!!!!!!!!!

try robb-jack .5 dia. mandrell 1.5 x.187 carbide saw with a.5 dia. hole. i think they might have it or they can mod one with the corner rad for you.

Paul I complaned about this in an other thread about 2 weeks ago. today i had a very complex part i pgm in MC7 in 1999. i read it into XMR2 saved and read it into X2. added 5 new features regen post. it will run all week end. customer is really happy and has more parts for us to up rev that were all written in MC7. these files are about 17 meg. nc files. i'm glad i did'nt have to reprogram them. and yes file read into XMR2 perfect with all geo and tool paths intact. hope this helps. 35k chipper

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!on parametrics 35k chipper

Dave that did the trick! worked the first time! thanks for your help. 35k chipper