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jhjr

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  1. Where I used to work they had a new tl3w. I liked the lathe at first but it had chatter problems. From what i've read this is only a problem with the larger lathes. The tailstock was junk also, wouldn't repeat & pushed when you had a larger part in it. Make them let you run some test parts on the spefic size lathe you wish to buy before committing. We ran test parts on a tl2 for us and it worked great, the 3W was a big difference than the tl2 we test ran. Disappointing. A Haas tech said the machine was fine when we had them look at it and a coworker agreed. A few days later the same coworker said why is this chattering? I could've strangled him. The control & intutive system are very nice. Mastercam will work fine with it. I did the same as Derek, used longhand not canned cycles from mc. Research the spefic lathe you are looking at online. Overall the lathe was ok with work arounds but I think I would look elsewhere if I had it to do over.
  2. You've had better luck with canned cycles than I have in mc lathe. I've never got any of them to work right in any version but maybe it's just me not setting something up for them. I always use longhand when using mastercam lathe.
  3. I haven't updated to X5 yet since tomorrow is the last day I'll use it where I work. Idk if my new employer updated yet. What I wanna know, is the public released X5 different than the latest beta. I'm sure it is but wouldn't you think that this would've been seen when beta testing? Or is everyone beta testing using V9 coolant? Is there any reason to switch to x coolant if your V9 library is good? I think there is a few more things available with x coolant but it didn't seem worth it when I had a rock solid V9 library. This seems like a major problem that needs to be fixed or no one with x coolant will use X5 until the MU is out. It'd be nice if CNC could make up a patch until the MU comes out. Hopefully I'll get to try X5 out next week. Edit. I see that this was caught in beta. Why would it make it into the release then? Not enough time?
  4. jhjr

    X5 verify

    The machine sim runs on mastercams code (.nci?), from what I've read. Similar to verify. Not G code.
  5. Leb makino 60x25?x25? vmc 16x80 wmw lathe 30x60 retrofit leblond lathe (tape at onetime) Haas tl3w A bunch of larger manual lathes, mills, vert lathes. That was for the last 12 years. Start a new job in two weeks. Was time for a change. It's gonna be a big change for me. Smaller parts/ tolerances. Moving two hours away from where I live now. Mostly mori's there. Maybe John will chime in on what the machine specifics are there.
  6. I'd check with Huron. If they don't have them they'll make them. We had them make us some special intermediate jaws before. http://www.huronmachine.com/index_jaws.cfm
  7. Cimco or mastercam? I would have no idea what is wrong but maybe the other editor would work. I prefer cimco myself. I don't know if cimco is in router. It's included in mill & lathe so I'd think router would have it too.
  8. quote: bent 90 deg & beat the living sh!t out of things.Ouch. Thank god for enclosures. Lucky no one got hurt. Do you remember the shaft dia? 3ft at 3k sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. Saw a couple of these machines yesterday, a part was run on one. Mori makes some nice stuff. Quiet.
  9. Looks like a nice machine. Welcome to mc lathe.
  10. The toolpath editor will change feeds but not speeds. Maybe use grooving instead of cutoff? Let whatever amount you want for your depth in roughing then use a different speed & depth for finishing. Even better maybe 2 point toolpaths? Hth [ 09-30-2010, 10:39 PM: Message edited by: jhjr @ Mclanahan Corp ]
  11. There is a retract in linking parameters. That's where I get my R value from but maybe your control deff is different? If you changed the top of stock to -.1 abs & retract value is .1 inc that could give you a zero R value. No I've never had that happen.

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