probably none, balanced is good for 40K and up spindles. (my opinion)

that's interesting. is there any literature available about that ?

i am planning to move up there in probably early august. most likely right over there in indiana close to hammond. do you have a mailing addy where i can send resume to ?

how about gummy bears ? AND, i'm not going anywhere where i can't hunt, OR where i am considered a criminal just for breathing.

oh yea, i forgot, what about my guns. can i bring my guns ?

what are you calling a dollar and how does it measure up to a US dollar ? also, those hourly rates i quoted usually come with about 8 to 10 thousand dollars a year of overtime. that 1.5 times the hourly rate, per hour.

i dont' know about Australia, but i hear that in finland, a good moldmaker makes about 12 bucks american and hour, in england, a good moldmaker makes about 16 bucks american and hour. here in texas, a good moldmaker makes about 25 bucks and hour and in chicago it's around 35 bucks an hour. if Australia is right up there with Finland and England, i wouldn't be interested.

PSB ? heyyyyy, no fair. how come i don't have any of those ? just kidding. but this is the first i have heard of that. i have nci files, ops files, pst files, set files, and txt files. what is a psb file ?

just set each position as an offset number ie (G54, G55, etc.) in the machine and make the program a sub program and call it on each position. simple and clean. we use erowa fixtures. but we also get the offset of the part from the center of the fixture. using transform toolpath doesn't always work unless we add the offset to each position.

is there a list of what number makes what symbol ?

ours is fairly easy to set up. i like that about it. our others are a bostomatic with a 10K and a 40K spindle, a maho 4 zxis and a couple of roeders for electrodes. i think i prefer the bosto myself.

EWWWWWWWWW Okuma. that'a mickey mouse peice of junk. we affectionately call ours "GOOFY".

jagourly, i am moving to the hammond area. how far from south bend is that? what is CTM ? thats were all of my adult children and all of my grandchildren live.

speaking of moving, any of you guys from northern indiana ? i am thinking of moving there laster this year.

how bout if i email it to you or something like that and let you take a look at it ?

did all that, and then added "stock test ", *stock down in there and the answer is always 0. it's gotta be something i'm missing. maybe the place i put it in the processor. the pparameter is the first thing it hits in the post block area, the fprmtbl is right after the opcode stuff, stock is defined and formatted, along with result. and the numbered questions are at the bottom ... 1501. Insert parameter information in the ascii NCI? n 1502. Write operation information to binary file (.ops)? y etc. it just isn't reading it.

have any of you guys been able to get the post processor to pull out any parameters such as 10010 and 10068, etc. i've tried everything in the book and can't get it to work. MPMaster does it but i haven't been able to figure out why. it has to be something small that i am missing but it just hasn't dawned on me yet. any ideas ?

coper electrodes ? EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

yea but, cat is spelled DOG-FOOD

my o pinion, it's already there. i just would like to see what everyone else has to say.

do you make a part out of a piece of material or is the part already in there and you just have to remove the excess ?

the 40K spindle. basically all we do is indicate the big head and set the tools length offsets off of it (both heads)and call the big head G60, then we indicate the small head in X and Y only and call it G61. we set the Z the same in both. then i post a big head (10K) program and call it G92d10 or something like that and the post the small head program and call it G92D11. Then the call program i say something like G94D10 M6T1 G94D11 M6T21 M30 The M6T1 and M6T21 are stubby tool holders so that either head won't crash becuase of being too long. its about 143mm in X between them but that dimension grows about .05mm or so as the heads heats up, even with the chiller on. so we just resigned to giving them the G6X positions. that machine is deadly accurate in X and Y but only about within .02mm-.03mm in Z. the 40K works well. i can cut a 3D shape with a 1.0ballnose(carbide) with no problem, moving at about 1900mm per minute (75inches per minute or so.) of course that's not all there is to it. i love fast spindles. you should get one.

i'm interested. [email protected] much appreciated.

subs. i usually post several programs out and give them different G92 values and then manually write a small main program that calls them. it works real well.

i have one that i hacked. but we don't use the canned drdilling cycle, only the canned tapping cycle. ours has 2 heads, one with a 10K speed and the other with a 40K speed. if you want it, i'll send it to ya. it works real good.