Any ideas of what those forgings are worth for a set of car rims??? John

Hi Cheeves, When using the rip fence make sure it s at least parrellel to the blade or leading away a little on the exit side. When using the fence as a stop to cut stuff to length clamp a board on the fence to act as the stop in front of the blade then when the material passes through the blade it will not bind and shoot back at you. Keep your hands as far as possible away from the blade and use pushers to push the material through the blade. When changing the blade always un-plug the saw, this is a good idea if you have children as well (leave it un-pluged when not in use). Yes get a better blade try a combination blade with 60 teeth. You may want to upgrade the rip fence as well. Good luck John Ford

Hi Robert, I deleted the "swept surface" from Kannon's drawing and you can see how it is done. You need you "across contour" (this is the profile of your molding) and then you need a chain (a complete line with the arc were you want the surface to follow). Please look at the photos below and directions. 1) after you get you drawing lookng like the photo above, select create-surface-create swept surface. 2) after you have chained the 1st across it will ask you for a 2nd across (not needed in this case) just click on the green check mark. 3) Now it will ask you to chain the along contour. Select you contour (if it is open such as this one it will ask you "branh point reached" you need to select the blue plus sign to end the chaining)IMG]http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r171/haford2/along.jpg[/img] 4) click on okay, then click on apply and you have a swept surface. I am sure someone with more experience will correct me if I have made an error! John Ford John Ford

Hi Robert, "you got mail john" I forwarded Kannon's email to you. John Ford

Hi, I put Robert's file in the MX2 folder on the FTP. He is working with surfaces not solids. He is making a product to wrap around buildings like a cove molding but would like to be able to wrap around a curve or rad if the building has a rounded corner. The file is called 9542 cap 1.MCX. John Ford

Thank you. John

Hi Robert, Welcome to the forum. Have you got a file that you can share, send it over and I will have a look? John Ford

Hi Eric, Any light oil will do as well. John Ford

Hi Jim, What sort of price range is the Daewoo in? John Ford

Hi Kyle, Sorry I do not have that one but all you have to do is change the text and rechain it. If you need help let me know. John Ford

Hi, I posted one on the FTP site in "mcx" folder called "electraglide". This was a v9.1 file (from htm01, big thank you!). I have it with "street glide" and "road king" and "road king classic" if needed? John Ford

Hi, I am looking at a job that requires aluminum alloy 2219. The blocks are 1/2" x 5/8" x 4" long. Any information or suppliers? Thank you John Ford

Hi Delrio, Thanks to Kannon I have put the updated the V9.1 file to an X2 file on the FTP called "cartemp" it is the "MCX2 folder". John Ford

Hi Delrio, Send me the V7.2 file and I will open it in V9.1 then bring it into X for you. John

Hi, RTV permatex Blue silicone can withstand oils. I have not had to use any on our machine but we use it in oil filled Vacuum pumps. John

Hi, No problems with Windows 2000 32 bit. Try making it into smaller operations and see if that helps. In V9.1 It would lock up if I did too many chains at once. John Ford

Hi ShawnV, Check this one out as well. www.ableorings.com/manual.htm John

Hi, I deleted the line I had closing the box on the open side and it works. Thank you for the tips! John Ford

Hi JP, Same thing no change. John Ford

Hi, I am doing a 2d pocket one side open. I would like to plunge outside the material. How can I change the postion? Thank you John Ford

Hi, It ended up being the subprogram number (O35565) had to many digits 5 instead of 4. I am not to sure why the Cimco editor did this, any ideas? A big thank you to Tim for pointing this out. John

Hi Tim, I think you are correct. You have mail. What could be the problem in the Subprogram? John

Hi, When it alarms out the G20 line is highlighted? I will check the I/O channels when the part is finished. John

Fanuc Oi-MB. It hangs up on the G20 G40 G80 G17 G49; line when the alarm goes off. John

Hi, I have this program for using our flash card as a data server but I am getting this error, any ideas? O0010 (program #) G20 G40 G80 G17 G49; M198 P8; M30; Error 003 Too many digits Thank you John Ford