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mx247

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  1. Our Fanuc wire machines have screen filters plumbed into the water lines that will block flow if not cleaned regularly. Not sure about a Sodick I've never run one. It's part of our procedure to clean them now when changing resin tanks.
  2. Does anyone have any tips for deburring this stuff besides the cryogenic treatments? I have one hundred 5/16 dia. shafts 12" long with a boss machined on both ends and a slot milled down the length. I've done a few sample parts that I chamfered by hand with a HSS scraper and the customer still complained about "sharpness" on the edges. They updated their print to put a .005 radius on all edges but the extruded parts are out of round .010-.025 so using a chamfer tool to machine the edge is out of the question. I need to ship these next week and was wondering if there are any type of abrasive wheels or brushes that might work on this material to create a softer blend on the corners.
  3. We do it quite a bit here to allow using a bigger sized boring bar for finishing
  4. 4th axis on right side of the table and kurt vise on the left. I primarily do custom extrusion tips and dies to support our medical tubing divison so everything is one off and I often have to stop whatever I'm doing to do quick revisions.
  5. No one? I guess I'm headed into uncharted territory on this job. LOL
  6. She's a beauty look like you got it loaded up to(bar feed & mist collection). I haven't run a Doosan yet but I've heard alot of good things about them.
  7. I have the chance to quote secondary operation work on some metal injection molded parts. They are 420 and 17-4 stainless the customer is telling me the density and hardness are equal to bar stock material. I have cut plenty of 420 and 17-4 but I'm wondering if the injection molded powdered metal has the same cutting properties. This is high volume work so my biggest concern in abrasiveness and tool wear. Anyone worked with this stuff before?
  8. I went through the same thing, looked at machines, got quotes from all the dealers, "see whats in stock we have to get it on the shop floor by the end of the year", then poof nothing. I hope they don't come back next week and say we need it now.
  9. I normally use .01 return .1 retract, but on some deep hole cooling lines we drill in aluminum molds I've had to change the return to .05 or .075 to prevent rapiding into the chips that fall back in the holes.
  10. thanks Matthew Hajicek™ -Midland Tech Your response/screenshots at the beginning of this post helped me thru my first milled taper thread this morning.
  11. We are actually looking at a Makino F5, the Haas just came up because the company is shutting down and they're in the same building as us. We already have 6 Haas verticals really dont need another, even if it has the trunion table. I'm ready to take a step up to a higher level of machine I gave the owners my opinion ($50K but dont really need it), hope they don't back off of the Makino and go for the Haas. If they want to buy both we can find a use for it.
  12. I tired contacting our Haas sales rep to get a service report on the machine to check on any crashes, but havent heard back yet.
  13. Its a 2006 super low hours (dont have the exact amount), a small amount of tooling, Renishaw OMP 400 probe and lista tooling cabinet. We are taking over the space they are in now so we wouldn't have to move the machine. From what I was told they did very little actual cutting they just ran programs thru the machine cutting air or cut aluminum to verify their programs. They put out a number of $81,470.00 seems pretty high to me a new one goes for around $115,000.00

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