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I have in my garage a 90’s vintage 10 x 54 square way cnc turret mill, pc based control not working.* It has been sitting 10 years and has a fully surface rusted table which cleans up easily with a...

nice you got a refund, but do you still feel support is poor? i am a noob about to retrofit a lathe (pulling off an old tired fanuc from a cnc eng lathe and going to pc based setup) good support and...

if your vmc has rigid tapping, or if you have a releasing type die head you can make the rod on it from sawn blanks. using an extended er collet holder in the spindle to hold the rod, do 1 end, flip,...

i didnt look at the cutters but i looked at the inserts, if you need a square shoulder, apet is fine but imho nothing moves aluminum like the 45 deg xect or similar style. sharp, polished, high rake....

thanks to both of you. im a good machinist, a fair mechanic, and a rank beginner electronics guy. because of folk like you and others who respond, im getting a feel for things, getting excited...

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used a couple times a month (for 10 yrs), the lathe began blowing fuses on start up every time. turned on already in hi rev mode day before? cant remember but surely possible. got a speed...

no time to read this whole thread but some observations.

i get a lil over $18 hr to run a 6 pallet hor mill. that is good for this region. i roll out 3 or 4 families of parts usually in groups...

not really to the ops question but an alternative to Neils anti walk solution, a thin wipe of clover compound has stopped hard parts from moving in my hard mill jaws.

bumpin meself back to the top!

i have a rf-40 round column gear head i am running right now, low hours on it, making decent $ hand machining while we are fixing the cnc control on my acra knee mill. once the acra is back to life...

im a pretty good machinist but not much of an electronics guy. my nardini has been idle in my garage thru the winter months, mostly from lack of work, since the poor economy of a few years ago...

my nardini lathe fanuc 20-t mono green monitor started having a patch in the low lh area that was being illuminated by the crt gun looked like a cloud, fuzzy, soft edged, didnt obscure text, nums et...

Eric, i also have a nardini fast trace with 20-t, my knowledge of parameters, blah, blah, is poor but mine is set up and running well, pm me if youve not resolved this yet, at very least i can help...

after reading DareBees post and rereading the 1st post, i did not consider that the need for the 20mm was just at the bottom. i have an optical cone casting (alum) i bore from time to time, has a...

i have had some luck at times using sharp tooling, and knocking speeds way way down, ie 100 rpm, multiple small depth cuts and a spring pass or 2, that being said it will take a long time.

i use a simple spreadsheet system, inputting full operation description, setup time, cycle time, hourly rates, etc. a separate line for materials inc minimum buy and per unit, and if needed another...

virtually nothing going on in my shop. just sitting here drinking coffee fooling with the calculator, im guestimating 2x Donkey's lot price, and thats with size being vibratory etched by hand. if...

i run a nardini cnc eng lathe off a rotary phase converter, 8 hp. i bought a 20 hp converter based on recommendations of an electrician that i have extra power for the lathe available, non us motors...

bought mine from these folks 12 yr ago, it has been a good machine, full 3 axis z knee driven, close to same money. run nearly daily for 12 yrs. if these interest you, pm me a phone#, or ill pm...

i bought a used machine (not theirs, likely a trade) from them years ago, asked that it be ready to plug and play when it hit my shop. spent $3k+ on parts and a local cnc tech to get it up and...

old shop i worked at had a big radial drill head on a fixed column and arm over a large table that they added a cnc control to for positioning quickly and accurately. they decided to make a mill out...

didnt see anything there, Toby

i'll keep an eye on this thread, but it doesnt look promising. was looking for a quick easy solution, and i understand perfectly about the long overhang. i still...

i was lucky enough to be around when another shop was scrapping an old Robotool, and picked up 20+ NMBT 30 taper holders, now looking for an adapter to allow me to run these in my bport clone. ...

interesting thread. 10 yr ago i was working by myself quoting out at $50/hr, and usually had a month+ backlog

7 yr ago i had increased rates to $70 hr, had 1 full time employee and was telling...

ive been in the jobshop 30+ yrs. run anything from bridgeport to devlieg to cnc lathe & mill, shaper and gear cutter and more. not much of a grinder, but i can do it if i need to. ive made parts...

i used to maintain folders of stuff, recently switched to 100% computer, using a system much like jeffery71.

open the corcoranmachine (thats me) folder, 6 subfolders - masters - quotes - processes...

it worked very well, my thanks!

i have 3 .step files from solidworks. they go into bobcad v21 nicely, and save well as .dwg or .dxf files. but any attempt to open them with autocad 2000 is fruitless, the .dwg file generates an...

jo momma! ah ha ha, Donkey and i share some space on another forum where a thread tending toward controversy would be booted to a special section, where EVERYONE would likely pigpile on ea other. ...

i offered the mods the option to pull this thread. hobby shop? maybe, just a big garage, the equipment ive listed, and support equipment, ive been running 12 years doing this solely, supporting...