nice but no metric

Do you use the compression style or a floating one?

I love living on our island but I have to say finding new tooling is not as easy as one might think. I've been pressuring the bossman to send me to a tool show again since it's been 15 years. Hopefully I can get to Chicago next year but I'm not holding my breath. We have long used hardinge's TT-3/4 tapping heads for both cut and form tapping. They have served us well but I thought it's just about time to see what else is out there and what other guys are using. DO you use compression style? On the machines that have rigid tapping we use that but we have a few lathes that don't have it. What are you using and are you happy with it.

I still haven't heard from Tim.

I think you will have (as you seem to already know) nothing but trouble trying to do this in one opp. I would try roughing the OD, drill (use a 135 degree split point cobalt drill-peck drill but only retract .01 or so to break the chips), rough the ID to within .02 per side or so, finish the OD to size and part off. 2nd opp. Bore jaws so the part is holding almost all the way around the part (kind of like a collet with as much contact as possible). Finish bore to size. We have had great luck in Ti. with Seco TS2000 grade inserts. Bore the jaws to hold as much of the length of the part as you can and relief the bottom so the chips have a place to go. It may not be production but at some point you'll just have to get the parts done.

It's the big annual tool and manufacturing show in Chicago. Everything you need to know is a click away. http://www.imts.com/

Jay, Will this be a live podcast? It would be cool if we could interact with some of you folks while you're there.

Thanks Greg. What tap is your code for?

Can someone post up some working code for Okuma rigid tapping? My co-worker tried what was in the book and the machine just skips over it. Where do you put G95 in the code? Does rigid only accept metric feed? Thanks.

Rob, As of March 2011 Tim was still posting on the DR forum. I just sent a PM to him. We'll see if I get a reply.

If you're talking about the one touch-igf-xl 2nd edition manual. Yes we do. Now about finding the seat time..................That's another story all together.

That's interesting Ben. I was under the impression it was used mostly for simple parts. Also I didn't know Y axis could be programmed too. Don't forget I'm new to Okuma's. Have you found any good training info on it or do you find the manuals that came with the machine and time at the control to be the best learning tools?

Bummer.

I hear talk about a MplmasterOkuma post. Is that post a downloadable and then modifiable post? My inbox awaits any and all replies.

I'm just cutting my teeth with learning how to program our Okuma. Many of our parts are on the complicated side so my question is do you mostly program simple face and turn with a drill and a bore kind of parts with the one touch? Can any of you post up a pic of some of the more complicated parts you did with one touch to give me an idea what it can do? Thanks, Phil