2 thou drift on a fixed turret! WoW. I can understand thermals on a B holding a turning tool but turret? LMAO @ Zoob and his comparisons! IBTL

DingDingDingDingDing alarm bells! That right there is inexcusable. There is absolutely NO excuse for this.

For me....black is the best because of eye strain. I'd be in front of the box for 12>15 hr days, back in the day. And mornings/evenings were the best for my eyes - lights off in the office and the brightness turned down on the monitor.

+1 to black background. And Grey OPs manager.

...and what if they leave etc etc... I'd be having a name such as Eng Ineering and Man Ufacturing, or Initials only of the company name. If they won't accept that, John Doe...

Yes - 100%.

I'd be looking at it like Leon said - half the DOC and crank it up. I don't think the slot is wide enough to peel mill with a 5.5 tool - you may blow the ballscrew (i did one a few years ago). Hydraulic holders on long (relative) extensions - IME can induce vibration...

True - but the fact that OP wanted the pump to run with doors open, I assumed he's talking wash gun, so I would have thought a M08 pump would be more than adequate. If he's talking of rigging up a wash down washdown system...then bigger is best IME.

Is there a cutout/cover/half shear in the tank to add another pump? If so, is it the same size and adjacent to another pump that has a lot of power (M08 example)? If yes, i'd duplicate that pump as the pressure/flow/frame size and also the depth of the pump, will be suitable for your tank. The plate on the side should say make/model/frame size/flow etc - then either duplicate it exactly or search a known manufacturer with the same technical details.

/Hijack on 2020 2D pocket...i see it can still leave upstands depending upon stepover % and part shape (using square bottom endmills not hi feeds)....

Hey! I resemble that remark

Give me the old days...simpler times....big carbs and no fuel injection....

Not being an azz...but as you state it's a different thread profile. As the spiralock are designed to do just that - lock, the thread angle is paramount for their locking data. If you're the design authority or using this for in-house fixturing etc, no biggie. If it's for a customer product...IMHO you have to be a brave person to deviate like this...

Spriralock form is not uniform flank angle though? It has the 30degree kick making one side of the V different to the other? So isn't it proprietary so only the Spiralock manufacturer taps/gauges etc are available from them?

.....aaaaaannnnnnddddd I thought it was me today with my sausage fingers.... Thanks Ron

#AlphaByte. Quick-n-dirty software solutions...

So that's more a combination/revamped Levels manager then? And while it's being changed (LoL) please add the ability to "lock" a level like Autocad can so geometry etc - anything on that level - cannot be accidentally moved or deleted (enhancement request already submitted when X7 was released)...

The trouble with that...is you either have a complete new tab, then it's click to activate...or append the view manager... Either way it's more bloody clicks...because you're probably in the OPS manager and then click to select the correct tab and click again to get what you want. Where at the bottom, one click to access? Orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr......have a modified interface where you can customize the keyboard and type something like "VS" and up comes the viewsheets dialogue box. Oh that WOULD be sweet Stupid nonsense ALT TAB blah blah windowze standard useless interface...and the clickety clickety click click click...

The option to leave the viewsheets where they are (at the bottom) but have a vertical scrolling "up" the screen would be my vote. But for Ronaldos type of work with many many viewsheet requirements, there'd have to be some sort of folder or master viewsheet at the bottom, and then clicking on that would open up the vertical fly-out with all other viewsheets (related to that "folder") within it. In my head anyway...

Glad to see you've seen the light with them Ron You're one of the <1% regarding the complexity of your parts you work on - for us mere mortals, they are fantastic for simple 3ax side 1 (flip) side 2 parts, and rotary/Hori parts where we can set 1 view sheet per plane/set-up. For what you're doing, it would be a good enhancement to be able to have a "folder" on the bottom bar - where you can name that folder (for instance OP1 G54) and then have as many flyouts of your view sheets within it. Or i guess it could be built into the planes manager...another click though to access...

Not long now Ron before you'll be eligible for parole

Sorry, what did you say Sonny? I have to change the battery in my hearing aid Some of us are older than dirt. Some are just dirt.

LMFAO @necro-help!

James, you have too much time on your hands I gotz me an eyedear though - how about an Off Topic? Will it catch on?

Interesting thread and shows (to me) what a different world from the 3/4axis world the 5ax world is...