As Charles said, processing time goes waaaaaaaaaay up, so if you are doing long toolpaths they will now take twice as long.

Time for the: 'Those were the days...' rant. Has anyone else here ever had a part thown at them for making scrap? Those were the days...... Apprentice: 'Uh, I think I scrapped this part out' Diemaker: (ready to have a nervous breakdown) 'what, What, WHAT!!!! You little piece of sh!*!! They never should have hired you. You shouldn't be allowed to empty the garbage!!!' Apprentice: "But this bridgeport is so worn out and its missing a complete thread on the leadscrew so when I hit that spot my table jumps .200" Diemaker: 'I dont give a damn!!! Just dont f*** any thing else up!!' Apprentice: 'OK I'll try not to' Diemaker: 'OK come on were going to the bar for lunch' Ah yes....... Those were the days.... But it made me a pretty good die maker not to mention influencing me as a MC programmer

why not just go usb???

Hey Kathy, How about same day post changes. This one goes out to Alex at Fastech Inc. in Ohio. Sent him the post for modification and he came back with the modifications the same day. We would have been up and running with it that day but I gave him some wrong info... But anyway, he worked his butt off to help us out.

good points chopsley.............

Check this out! Fully a third of these threads are people asking for proe posts!!! And you thought it was bad here!!

Some good points have been made about calculating center drill depth to get a certain diameter chamfer. How about this idea: Never use a center drill again!!! We haven't used them in years. We use 90 degree spotting drills and you get any chamfer diameter you want by just drilling to a depth that is half of the chamfer diameter. Works every time and looks sweeeeeeeet! Also super easy to resharpen.

Smit, I built my own about six months ago. A breeze, cheap, and fun too. Follow this link for step by step instructions!!!

greusoooooooooooooooooooome!!!

hey maziac, I bet that seat is cooooooooooooooooooold in the morning.

Murlin, Notice that the NASA terminal velocity equation takes into account the density of the atmosphere. When this guy was 100,000 feet up the atmosphere was so freakin' thin that he would have a higher terminal velocity even with the same weight, coefficient of drag and frontal area. Then if he balled himself up and reduced his coefficient of drag he would go even faster, and I would suspect that if he assumed a diving position his drag coefficient would be even smaller thus an even higher terminal velocity. In this dive position his frontal area would be reduced from that of the ball position, making him fall even faster. So, yes he would go way faster than the near earth velocity of approx 125 MPH. Just here to help with the hijack!!

So true, so true.......

OK so here it is the story you have all been looking for: Klansman News and here too From CNN.com This guy needs to be nominated for a Darwin award [ 01-06-2004, 04:14 AM: Message edited by: jballs ]

To turn off SGI, just code it into your toolchange and end of file. Very similar to what James has but just add: quote: if stagetool >= "G5P0", e zero, pbld, e *n, *t, "M6", ptoolcomm, e n, next_tool, e n, "G49", epcctrlon

This looked like a good one to revive from a few years back. So guys, have these numbers changed any in the past year or two?