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I am not advising against it at all. The main reason is I don't have any carbide spot drills...yet :) and I figured the cheap hss spot drills I have might have just work hardened the surface. My...

Hello everyone, i finally had to tackle 304 stainless again. This is pretty much the first time machining #304 (with the exception of the second part i tried on the Tormach and immediately trashed...

I would just live with it as long as you can, we have two vices, one has nicked jaws and the other is perfect, we interchange them and it's kind of like having a "Rough" vice and a "Precision" vice....

That is great, thanks for the video. Now i have seen 304 done both ways on a PCNC 1100, i have seen youtube videos of high speed machining approach, and with yours i have seen a more traditional...

Thanks again, that's good to know, my first experience with 304 was not a good one, it was 3/8" thick material and i was making a throttle body mount for a friend. I snapped a Q size HSS drill on the...

Thanks for the pointers on the Stainless, The parts i will be making are very low tolerance and very shallow cuts (probably around 0.05" deep relief areas) and some drilled holes. The whole thing...

This is really cool to see. It is always encouraging to see the capabilities of these machines pushed beyond the typical materials. I have a 304 stainless job coming up so in the next few weeks i...

it's cool to see that someone besides myself has thought of this, my idea was structural concrete with a small rebar-like frame. I used to work for a cell phone reinforcement company that did...

Ahh, yes, i remember skimming your post yesterday. And i will be the first to admit that i am new at this machining thing and just learning as i go, but i enjoy the hell out of every minute of it....

The ball screws were the one thing that i have not touched on the machine yet, but it is cool to hear that they are accessible, would anyone be able to take a few pics of the tools you used and where...

and i also remember there being more posts on here, i just took a quick glance and was going to read them all in depth later...i must have been dreaming too

WOW that is a lot of great information everyone. I'm glad this is news to some other people too and they can benefit from things on this forum like i have. I like the idea of pulling out the end mill...

I did not know that you could run a set screw holder with an end mill that did not have a flat, that is interesting and good news to me. I have used mostly ER holders because i thought they were more...

ya, i thought it may just be a newbie thing i just discovered that many already knew...and ya i was happy when i thought about the price difference too :).

And ya my instinct was to use ER...

Hi Everyone, this weekend i saw something interesting and i thought i would share it. This may be common knowledge to many but it sure wasn't for me and i found it very helpful.

We were cutting...

I have also only used the ER TC tapping heads, I have both the ER20 and ER16 and tey both work great. the TC tapping head is basically the same thing as rigid tapping but it gives you a little...

on our PCNC 1100 we keep it adjusted so that all three axes are less that 0.0005" if it gets above that we will re-adjust it. It takes patience, but it is possible to improve the adjustment. To get...

Here is a quick and dirty way i have been doing things like this. We do a lot of one-offs, so it is really more about getting the machine running than having the most elegant or correct code. I am...

I would love to see what Bryan Suggested. I have pondered the same thing, the best ideas i can come up with so far is a plate that indexes off of 2-4 surfaces on the bottom that when flipped and...

Haha thank you, it was actually a friend who suggested to use them for the mill. I got them free from my last job and he saw them and came up with the idea. I couldn't believe i hadn't thought of...

Hello, I had a similar problem with the VFD on my Series 3. In the middle of a series of runs it just stopped turning on the spindle. Everything else would function fine but the spindle rotation...

Here is a picture of our setup, we made our own stand and used a lot of free stuff we had already. The main part of the curtains is meat locker curtains that are supported on uni-strut. They have...

I'm glad to hear it came back to life, hopefully you can get some work going through it and it will pay itself off...many times over :) much like me in my blunders i bet you learned a lot once it was...

I'm sorry to hear that. what happened in the end, did it come back to life? i know that not taking care of a machine is very bad for them, but sometimes like cars you can get them cheap and fix a few...

Thank you everyone for following, and i am glad that this can be useful to others than just myself. It has been a battle, and in the beginning i didn't think it would be fixable, i couldn't get...

thank you Mountaindew, ya i was pretty sure we weren't the only ones able to do it, but i feel proud that we created it from scratch and tailored to our uses. We plan to build on it with other...

It looks like these clamps are for holding wirk down to the top of the table, meaning that they rest on the top surface of the part (Tormach says a max thickness of 3/8"), in my opinion of i were...

I have been recommended HSM express before, and this is probably very similar. I don't have any experience with HSM but that sounds like a neat feature. I guess one of the benefits of ours is that it...

Thank you and we still need to make a video of the T/C Tapping. the first program ONLY had T/C tapping and we used it to make a bread board like part with around 100 #10-32 holes and i had to relieve...

Hello everybody. I have found this forum and the people on it very helpful and I think there is a wealth of knowledge here. I am hoping I can show you guys something we have been working on and be...