Hopefully still perpetual... As in works like a USB so you'll always have it...?

That's a shame. I liked my hasps. But yes, i could take mine home, do some work, and then remember to take it back to work...and not drop it/lose it etc.

Unless I'm missing something...bored soft jaws?

Mats have been building 20k spindles since 1989 by memory...and regarding revs...forces increase with the square of the rotational speed. If you double the revs, it's 4x times the forces playing...If you treble, it's 9x the forces playing.... As TheeCNCAppsguy says, 15k to 20k is not just a 5k jump in revs...

NCPlot no. But you can put rapids in and toolchange time in. It worked out to be within 10% every time for me with the Robodrills (and then Feeler drill taps), and also the BT40 machines. Jobs were prismatic mostly ally (80% and 15% stainless) and cycle times from 10 minutes to 45 minutes but averaging around the 30 mins.

Ncplot is pretty accurate IMHO

...and a bit of gauge R & R with the CMM and how it's being used to check the part etc etc...

Hang on... You have two things going on here. Are you currently making the part? And IF you can get your customer to relax your tolerances to 0.002", then that's the first thing to have discussed in the first place Or are you at the quoting stage because if you think it's too expensive to get the right machine to make the parts, wait until you actually start making them!

+1 to Rons small wire brush - spark plug brush - you can get nylon stiff ones too, like a tooth brush on steroids And also the ultrasonic works well.

+1. It works like a charm.

Pressure? PRESSURE??? Don't talk to me about PRESSURE!!!

Leon - have you contacted Mats service to ask if 3006 works in Manual guide?

To be honest, Microsoft *standard* or not, it's plain dickyrickulous!

I always ALWAYS had a black screen with grey background too. Nice combination for my eyes...

+1 for 3006 It's a neater solution than M00 and "words"