I'm thinking will Jeff sell his AJX cutter

We do some inconel 713C I believe, I stopped drilling pilot holes because the pilot drills would last but the next drill would only last a couple holes. I put a small spot with a carbide center drill (just tip depth) and let the drill take the full cut the first time. Heavy concentration on coolant, I ended up using carbide tipped Cleveland drills. I tried about 20 things before this, solid carbide, cobalt, HSS, and I get the best holes from a carbide tipped drill/no pilot/no center drill hole (just spot for location).

We keep all the MC files, configs, posts and tools on a little 1U linux server, dual 320G WD Blues in raid 1. Still not fool proof but I feel better knowing it is on 2 drives and it isn't on a windows machine Jay I have heard bad things about failure rates on SSD's, it scares me. I don't trust them 100%. You would think they would be as reliable as ram but they are evidently falling short.

We don't do any tight work and don't fix them till they tear something up. I recently put a X ballscrew in our Mazak QT25 after it smashed an insert during a face cut. The ball screw had close to .100 backlash in the working area. The mills are a lot tighter but we have the luxury of not having to beat them up. We bought the Mazak like that.

Using a quadro 2000 right now, no graphics related problems at all.

I use the OSG Hy-pro taps also, for 1/4-20 through 3/8-16. I can get 100's of 4-40 holes in CRS on our haas minimill with a simple 2fl gun tap. Nothing special on coolant but on tapping I always go slow... about 400 RPM for the 4-40 and about 250-350 with everything else. Those hy-pro modified bottoming taps are awesome and you have to love what they do with the chip. All rigid tapping. Our Fadal I still use a rigid holder or collet even though it don't have real rigid tapping. Just go slow, works for me. I do a lot of thread milling, almost daily. Bought a little 3/8 dia 6 fl solid carbide with a 3/8 shank and a 1/4" dia relief, TiAln from Harvey tool. I finished 32 M12 X 1.5 holes today, no notable wear. Use it as a single point. I did the outside threads on these parts on the mill also because the lathe was tied up. Best 60 bucks I ever spent.

Jay if you say it will be OK I will do it. I saw instability with some vid cards at full hardware acceleration on XP with 9. Our X6 is on win7, I'll do some experimentation today. Hey how does that play with net hasp? we only have 2 seats, can the host computer still open multiple sessions like with the single dongle? Example... since we have 2 seats if I open 2 sessions can anyone else get on? Curiosity, I'll experiment later today after I put out a few fires.

That's an ancient language only spoken in california How do you keep your desks so clean? I was going to post mine but won't out of embarrassment.

I use 2 but with V9 I usually had 2 sessions up so I could draw mating details referencing the other without wasting trees printing. Now in X6 I can't do that, it gives me a warning. Now I just have my e-mail and the forum up on one, along with youtube vids occasionally and use the right one for MC. I really really wish MC would support dual sessions on one physical computer again, it was the reason I got 2 monitors in the first place. I don't think I've ever seen a "space ball" though I do remember a movie with a similar name.

Not a frys in all states. There seem to be 3 types of IT guys. Ones that know absolutely nothing and don't care to research, ones that know a lot and research, but are too cheap to implement anything over 100, and ones that really know their stuff but their company won't spend the money. Our Fry's is called Microcenter.

Youngster I remember holes in paper tape.

Didn't see this, +1 to the limit switch.

Looks like the program is though. I would look at what is in the register ... the y value for G55 at the machine.

Thanks Chuck, that did the trick. Assuming Chuck by your sig?

Where did X6 put the time estimates on backplot?

I changed my background to black, imagine that. Wonder where I got that idea from. Hey Rocket, what did you decide?

Astounding insight there htm01!

Hey thanks guys, didn't see the posts before I went on the rant. Darn red bull.

Solved, the trim and break button can be on at the same time that is useless IMO and confusing. Trim extend or break not all at the same time.

Freaking trim creates another entity I'm doing something wrong. It's that same line through a circle as earlier. Maybe join?

I can live with that i'll just chain partial from now on. Where is this infinite lookahead thing? Now another... extend creates another line instead of extending existing line. Is there a way to make it extend the original line without using trim?

OK so exactly when did chains for contours start going where there are no break points? Had a horizontal line through a circle, tagged the line and it danced around the circle too. Logic behind that please.

Dang dude looking at that part I would think anything but boring. Depending on material and how many and what the budget is of course but WEDM comes to mind.

Trashed it copying a lathe tool. I don't get it, that doesn't seem like a difficult task.

+1 ^^^ I have actually done that intentionally before on earlier versions. Would look at file permissions.