I don't know any in your area but these guys will go where they are needed. CNC Calibration and Alignment Service Inc. Scott Bombard and Dan Selakovic 303-922-8877

The information all the sales people tell me is that their machine will G1 feed 300-400 IPM (depending on the manufacturer) on the Y axis but unlike the mill they don’t list a cutting feed rate separate from the rapid traverse rate and if their cutting feed rate is true to be 300 IPM then I would have to guess that HPCC will be available? But no one can tell me for sure if this is fact. I guess I will have wait on the response from Mori’s application engineers. I was hoping someone in the forum might have encountered or inquired about this before. Thanks Again to All

Hi Harry, High precision contour control or Risk. This enables the amount of look ahead in the control for faster machining without over cutting or over shooting the desired tool path at high federates.

We turn some chuck jaws and reverse clamping. Works Great.

Good morning, Does anyone have this option on their Y axis machine? I cannot seem to find any information on weather of not this option is available on a lathe. If anyone is doing any HSM on their lathes out there and could let me know I would appreciate it. The lathe in question is the Mori NL2500SY. Thanks Again

Thank you, Again.

James, Do you have any Big Plus spindles? Can you interchange regular cat 50 holders from our existing machines in this spindle and use Big Plus where needed? or is it big plus only? What kind of Shrinker are you currently using?

Thanks Rob, I did get the email, I’m working four fires this morning and i'm a little slow. I'll check your link out. You guys just respond so quickly.

Rob, I sent you my email address. I also changed my profile. I did not realize my email was not visible to forum members. The loss of travel is a consideration. I guess I'm not sure how these work and have not been able to envision this. Does the tool pass through a goal post apparatus that is fixed on the table? I’m going to do some serious investigation. thanks again

What about big plus spindles? I have used some simultaneous fit tools before but I'm real intrigued about all tools being simultaneous fit. you know how chips get everywhere how can you possibly keep chips from getting smashed between the tool holder and the spindle face?? I realize there is an air blast system in place but you know how stuff gets stuck to the tools even in the magazine. This seems like some meticulous cleaning nightmare. I like the rigidity part though. We have found that when we run drills 3.0 or 3.5 diameter holes through 16 inches of 4140 that our current Hilco 1000 psi 8 gpm pump is really inadequate its like a little geyser at the top of the part another reason for more gpm. what experience do you have with drilling larger diameter holes with the cool-jet? What is the gpm of the pump you used? was the gpm adequate? I'm thinking 20 gpm is minimum for this application.

Thanks James, please do get back with me on that. We have a little time as you probably know with mori they don't have a lot in stock. Plus we want the 15k spindle, 60 tools, extended z height, all the optional stuff. I know you have alot of experience with mori. Have you ever had one with the extension casting on the z column? I thought this would be a good idea because by the time you put a sub plate on and add vices you are loosing about 8 inches of travel anyway. I will check out cool-jet, the one thing that attracted me to chip blaster is the variable coolant pressure that is regulated automatically. What is you opinion on spindle probe manufactures?

Rob, part probe is a definite. Right now we have a renishaw probe on our monarch vmc-150b and on our horizontals we have the M&H probes. When we bought the monarch in 1997 monarch was writing their own probe routines and they are pretty good. I dont know anything about renishaws probe routines, Are they easy to use? and do they have a number of different probing cycles to choose from? corner, edge, bore, boss part feature size verification ect? M&H does a pretty good job with this also and their customer support is excellent. Keith, Thank you for your imput. I will look into the Blum laser. These are great selling points. If there is anything else that you are doing with it please let me know.

Hi all, We are going to be buying a Mori Seiki MV-653 vertical milling machine and was thinking about the different options that I want on this machine. I was wondering if anyone is using a laser tool measuring system for tool touch off and if you are what system are you using and what do you like about this system over the TLI style touch off pad. Is the laser worth the extra money? Also in consideration is a Chip Blaster high pressure coolant system model# GV-20. 1000 psi /20 gpm. does anyone have this unit on their machine so they can share their thoughts on this unit. thank you in advance for your imput.

We use the multimaster tools here and I have found them to be very good tools. They are very rigid and the replacement heads are reasonably priced and coolant thru on the bars is a plus.

I'm running an HP 6000 workstation with dual 3.2 cpu. 4 gig of ram, Quadro fx3000 graphics card and dual 20in viewsonic flat panels and it works great.

KC9045 and 725 are good grades to start with. They are suppose to be coming out with an enhansed 725 grade soon. I don't know how deep you are going but I have found that if you go over 3 X D then you might want to consider removing a couple of inserts to reduce cutter grabbing. Yes, to your ? . the cutter will drag when you retract in z and the longer your tool the worse it is. that is why I prefer the carboly cutter over the kennametal. It uses a four sided insert that gives you two more cutting edges and the cutting edge is at 10 or 15 deg so the insert is tipped away from the side wall on the retract.

What diameter of plunge rougher are you using? What size of machine are you using this cutter on?The problem I found with kennametals plunge rougher is that it has little to no rake angle on the bottom of the cutter so when you plunge to a floor the whole width of the insert hits the floor and chips the inserts also that cutter has no chip clearance pocket in the bottom of it so chip evacuation is a concern if you are not roughing thru the part.

Nice tool. Thanks Mick

DavidB,Thanks I will keep that in mind. DrewG, Thank you for you response.From what I have seen so far the daewoo like you said is priced very well.I'm looking at the 2500SYL to get thr extra 10 inches between spindles.I do however like Mori's ZT2500 with twin turrets.This I can see woul'd give you some more flexability with how long your tools can be for ops on the sub spindle and with the added live tool positions might make for more standard tools to be left in the machine to reduce setup time.Do you like the CAPTO quick change tooling?I have not used that system before.I have used the KM stuff but found it to be very inadequate,not very Rigid and not very accurate as far as repeatability, at least in the rotary tools department.Komet's ABS I feel is the better modular tool connection compared to KM.Anyway, Thank you for you input and I will certainly keep you posted.

will do Don, thank you. James,Thanks for the links.I also found the MT series machine that looks really interesting. Do you know how far along the post devlopment has come for this type of machine? Have you had any experiance programing one? I will also contact my Mcam rep ,but your opinion is appreciated.

Dave, "I will let you know next week what I think about the 2500sy" Please do. James, Mori has always been one of my favorites.Do you what the mori has for Y axis travel? I was also considering a Y axis twin turret machine but they are not common in our area so I don't have anyone to go talk to about one. Sales guys just tell you what ever you want to hear,I was hoping to talk to some people who are using them (in the real world)to see what kind of limitation issues they may have encountered that maybe they did not see before they bought their machine or options they did not get that they wish they did etc. Thanks for the replys and keep them coming. Rich

we are looking to buy 2 new Y axis lathes and I woul'd like to get the forums opinions on what to look for,what options to get and what brand to buy. we looked at the Daewoo puma 2000sy yesterday and it seemed like a very respectable machine. Though I feel that the 2500sy is more of the size that will suit our needs. By not ever having a y axis lathe before I'm probally going to overlook something that some of you have already encountered that will help us make a better decision on our purchase.Any of your opinions will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for sharing.

Hey James, That sounds cool. Can I get a copy of that c-hook from you? I would like to try it.

Shane, send me your e-mail address and I will send it to you.