Oops. I misread that as 0-80. Good thing we have back up around here. Thanks del for keeping him straight.

Look in the machinists handbook. I'm not sure of diameter. The pitch is 80 threads per inch. Tap drill is .0469 or 3/64.

What kind of machine and control with what options bells ans whistles did you guys get?

In 2002 at the IMTS Mazak Integrex booth I saw a crankshaft being made. I think thats the right year. I talked with the guy who was doing it. He said it took him about 6 months to write a program for it. I think he did it in visual basic but I'm not sure. He was from England with a heavy accent. If I can remember correctly he said it could make one in 8 hours. I think what he did with the program was make it so someone could plug in the crank throw, where the journals are, size of the journals, size of everthing and locations of everthing, throw in a billet and wind up with a crank. I was pretty amazed none the less. Can't remember about thge lobe part though. Does anyone else remember seeing this?

I am running Windows 2000 with outlook. I have only 512meg of ram. I can run mutiple sessions of MC with no problems. If I have outlook open with 1 session of MC everything is ok. If outlook is running and I attempt to run a 2nd session of MC I experience problems. I suspect a shortage of ram to be my culprit. You may try adjusting the ram allocations and try to see if they effect the situation.

Buy a sinle point threadmill and you will be able to do any thread that comes in as long as the tool will fit into the hole. I'd try to get something with an insert if possible.

Maybe that is a metric number?

I would try the trichoidal milling on it and see how it does. I haven't used it much myself but from what I've read here on the forum this sounds like exactly the type of situation it is intended for.

At one point we were having some trouble on a VF-0 with torque. We were down low on the RPM range. If my memory serves me right it was like 97 or something like that. Once we moved up our RPM's that moved us higher into the torque curve and we were fine. Just curious what RPM's do people run for 3/8-16 tapped holes? I don't know how to make a poll but I'd be curious how everyone does it when tapping as far as RPM's go for different sizes of threads.

Looks like a barbell.

Use your config to set this however you want.

I would be in the same spot as yourself had I been elected to take a position like that. I don't know about horizontal programming either. I've always had the same question. Lets see what the survey says. I would be a little tentative accepting a position like that. But I always figure at one point I didn't know Mastercam either. I think you will have a couple of things to figure out but other than that can't be that much more difficult than verticals.

If you can post the file I'm sure someone might be able to help.

Check into Criterion they are quite nice also. Not sure on their range of sizes though. Quite rigid. I've used them and liked them alot.

hey Rick O, If loctite reaches about 400 deg F will become soft and let go. Not sure if this is the best thing for a toolholder but it does work

I say we light a match.

We are going to be puchasing a new computer for running Mastercam in the shop. This computer will be for running toolpaths almost exclusivly. We are looking at a Dell. pentium 4 3.2GHz XP professional 1GB 400MHz DDR2 ram Dell 19 inch M993 flat crt 64MB PCle x16 nVidia Quadro NVS 280 Dual NV64V 80GB hard drive 8MB Databurst cache 7200 rpm 3.5 floppy 48X/32X CD-RW Should I be considering anything else? I'm mostly thinking about when "X" is available and whether this is suited for its requirements. We are trying to keep it under $1500.00. Any ideas would be appreciated.

he holes are in the correct position and only need to be opened up they could be honed. Probably wouldn't take to long and wouldn't be tying up a cnc. I would estimate they could be honed out in 3 hrs. for all 50 pcs. This is with using the roughing stones then the finish stones prescribed by Sunnen on a Sunnen hone.

Maybe it could be cut with a waterjet. I'm not sure as far as the perpendicular requirement on the outside of the part, but I'm pretty sure a waterjet could do it. Maybe even if the kerf is to much of an angle this could rough it then mill it or turn it.

The AJX Rocks. Can't go wrong for roughing. They are scary at first, but they remove material fast. We have 2 2inch, 3 1.5inch, and 2 1inch of these things. I alsso like Mitsu's MBN ball end mill cutters for finishing or semi roughing. I think the free replacement policy is good for all of their indexable endmills.

We use the Mitsubishi AJX. It probably paid for itself the first week. The cool thing aboout Mits is the replacement policy they have.

You could probably contour the holes and might be able to save some time

go to haasautomation.com try looking for shop x-change HTH

On a fanuc 11m I believe it is just one time shot per entry. This can be checked by trying it with the rapid rate down all the way. Better yet try turning single block on. I think this is how I figured it out when I needed some accurate bore locations relavent to each other on a older machine. Please post the results when you find out. Inquiring minds want to know. Then maybe I'll be able to remember better this time.

I believe this is not modal; it needs to be inserted at each location, HTH