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We bought a brand new HS-2RP in the late 90's. It was the most problematic machine we had ever purchased. No rigidity, squareness issues, pallet changer issues, tool change issues, and ballscrew...

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We feed in and out at the same speed. Size and finish are equally important for most of our parts.


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I think you are doing things the right way. My son (senior in high school) wants to work in our shop once he gets out of HS. No problem by me, but I am dead set on him getting an education in...

I got an email today from Surfcam, there are a few tweaks being made to the new version so they aren't releasing it just yet.


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I see your using 2014. How do you like it? Any significant improvements? I haven't gotten my update yet....

What he said!

For that matter, I don't know a lot of owners that make six figures consistently.

Send them to Quality Metal Finishing in Eugene.

FWIW- I just bought a Matsuura MX 520. It seems to be a lot of machine for the money.

Type in 6000rpm, then turn up the spindle override. You will able to hear an increase in rpm if you have an 8000 rpm machine. I am betting you do.


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I'm in the same boat. I bought our first seat in 1996. We had some simple 3d work and at the time, Surfcam was so good. Move forward to today. We are replacing our verticals with 4 and 5 axis...

I didn't have a good experience with it. Mind numbing amount of quotes that you have no chance of winning.

FWIW-I have heard very good things about Esprit software for swiss machines.

Use a spot drill...

Any hints to when we might see it????

What you have looks like a pretty standard G code program that should run on any Fanuc.

Based on the description of the materials you are machining, you need to look at mid to high end machines. If it were me, I would look at Japanese iron first. I have heard good things about Doosan,...

Home your machine in x, zero the control, run x to the limits of the travel in the minus direction and tell us what that number is....

I will post some pics of my lathe so you can see what " normal" looks like. Something is definitely screwed up with yours.

What you are experiencing is not normal. X limit switch/parameter etc is wayyyy off. Get a tech to fix that ASAP!

Try searching for a company called memex. That is who we used when we upgraded our machines.

Back In the day, i expanded the memory in all of our late 80's/90's fanuc machines. It was pretty simple to do even back then. Basically just needed to add/replace a few chips. If I remember...

Post up a couple of pics showing the problem. I have a new ST20, and my guys have never complained about the travels being insufficient. I'm curious the see what is going on with your machine.

What exactly do you want to know?

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I think this question could apply to many industries...

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Yep, machineit is right. If you posted this program from your cam system, I'm guessing you told it to use a 1/2 tool diameter. Therefore your program is already compensated for the tool size and...

Are you measuring inside the bore of the holder where you would place a tool? For me, .001 is way more than I would accept. If I see more than .0002, we rebuild/ grind tapers.

Like anything mechanical, the harder you push it the sooner something is going to break. But, good machines like your Mori are designed to be pushed a little and still hold up. In our shop we see a...