try this if alloy doesn't matter supposed to be all aircraft surplus I guess they usually don't know exactly what the alloy is but they can tell you if it's "hard or "soft" Price is the hook here I haven't used them personally but know a couple of guys that have http://yardstore.com/ Tom

Sorry I said cd but the power point is what I have I understood it so anyone should be able to

MC has a cd that explains how to set that post up lots of illustrations for many types of machines On my machine A is the primary it's a table/table set up

We use a Centroid digitizer to copy cylinder heads and if the splines are in slices of Z all is well but if we do a grid pattern in x or y it comes in all inside out This is a sample of good code from the digitizer -3.9552 -1.1106 3.7419 -3.9554 -1.0898 3.7419 -3.9561 -1.0691 3.7419 -3.9566 -1.0485 3.7419 -3.9570 -1.0281 3.7419 -3.9577 -1.0077 3.7419 -3.9587 -0.9874 3.7419 -3.9589 -0.9673 3.7419 -3.9594 -0.9472 3.7419 -3.9597 -0.9271 3.7419 -3.9596 -0.9071 3.7419 -3.9600 -0.8924 3.7419 -3.9783 -0.8924 3.6919 -3.9766 -0.8724 3.6919 -3.9769 -0.8524 3.6919 -3.9770 -0.8323 3.6919 -3.9770 -0.8122 3.6919 -3.9768 -0.7919 3.6919 -3.9773 -0.7717 3.6919 -3.9772 -0.7513 3.6919 -3.9775 -0.7309 3.6919 -3.9775 -0.7102 3.6919 -3.9777 -0.6894 3.6919 -3.9777 -0.6684 3.6919 -3.9776 -0.6472 3.6919 -3.9778 -0.6258 3.6919 I also have another cad program called Excalibur(yes there are others but not as good ) that has a feature to import digitized points and it asks what way the slices are if I run the grid pattern through it and import it as iges then it also comes in ok Tom

Richard When you create the relaxed surface (smaller u&V numbers I am told around 20 is a good number for u&v) it asks you if you want to delete the old surface if you say no you it will overlay and you can see if the tolerance is acceptable....check your email Tom

Richard Millport Rhino mill w/ Centroid control A&B axis' are on a table we built with 1 centroid rotary(A) and 1 Troyke( ...works ok as far as accuracy but when all 5 are moving at once the feedrate slows down a bunch (also digitizing on this machine) As far as the learning being vertical...you said a mouthful there!Mike Rosa at CNC Software saves my butt on a regular basis Mastercam was a big bite for a small shop like ours but I know now it was well worth the investment Tom

We are doing 5 ax cylinder head work and use backplot mostly with a shaded tool and unshaded part for speed (shaded tool shaded part goes too slow) to check tool shank containment...been good so far but we're just learning so lots of time to screw up although I have caught& fixed several shank problems that would have been broken tools Tom

I was having trouble seeing my chaining arrows they would flash on but not stay lit backed the acceleration slider about half way down and fixed it Tom

Thanks everyone for the great advice and humor God Bless us all...everyone of us

Not a problem The nice thing about this type for our work it it will accomodate any piston and we can use the top jaws in the lathe as well.....How many more days til we can race again?? Tom

Shady, You probably thought I forgot about this but I could not get my camera to work finally borrowed my daughters (actually got her to do it) I tried to email pics to you but your address returns unsent Would be glad to post them here but don't know how Tom

Yea I know Kenny .....he whips me every time we come up against each other....Good Racer!and nice guy I will look your boss up at Budds Creek this weekend hope your Fulton does the job They're usually pretty stout Tom

That was it !!! worked fine for me Tom

Shady, I've seen your bosses car at the IHRA races We have a Top Sportsman 68 Barracuda I thought that's who he was when I saw the "Auxier" in the first post One of my engine customers is a friend of his I'll get on the pictures for you Tom

We use a 3 jaw chuck on a homemade sine plate and machined a set of aluminum soft jaws to fit in the oil ring groove We then set one angle with the sine plate and spin the piston in the jaws to make the other angle flat ....very rigid,fast and fits any piston What kind of race car does your boss have? Could probably email pics of vise if needed Tom

My reseller ...Innovative Solutions in Pa. 717-541-8123 had me adjust some setting for the intel card and it fixed the problem I forget what the adjust was but it was some slide bar in the video card menu Tom