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Are you planning to post any videos or info on how moving the machines went? Curious if you can move the machine with the case still attached to the CNC.

I saw VistaCNC and their pendants for Mach...

That's an awesome comparison! I love the 440 for how compact it is but the bigger table on the 770 is a big selling point for it. Guess I'll consider both at this point until I figure out which one...

Any updates? I found your YouTube videos the other night and love the detail in the videos! I want to see more on that coolant system if you got it yet. I noticed there really isn't a good drain...

I'll be looking at picking up a 440 here in about a year or so, but I want to start finding out the questions I have now before I am surprised by something later on. Anyone who runs a 440 or even a...

About 4 months ago I had a career change from working in shops on CNC's to a manufacturing engineer for a massive plastic container manufacturer. I absolutely love my job, but I find I miss...

Recently took a job where I'll be traveling the country for the next 12 months solid (aka home for a weekend at best). I love designing my own parts, tinkering and 3D printing parts. I want a new...

I'll be the first to admit it, my strong point is milling so turning isn't something I've had a lot of experience in. I am making these plugs that we use for a product of ours, initially I was...

Working on a project at work that is requiring me to design my own custom NPT (size restrictions on the part). I will need to design and manufacture both the internal and external plug for this part....

I graduated college this past December so I've been in the world of manufacturing going on a year now. I've come a long way but now I want to start increasing my cutting efficiency and lower my...

At my last job we had about 20 Mazaks. In all our programs the WPC for a given part was in the beginning of the program and when the program was started it would enter those values into the given...

We recently traded up our CNC machines (1986-1998 Supermax's) for a 2011 Hass VF-2SS and a soon to arrive UMC750. We want to start running parts tomorrow on the VF2 but I'm having trouble figuring...

The biggest argument that I hear Esprit say against Mastercam is Esprit simulates how the entire assembly (table, tool, holder, spindle, vice) will move in a real world setting. Where Mastercam only...

I did talk to both about pretty much every part of a full purchase. Mastercam wants $3400 for the machine post, Esprit says $1000 but that is for a Haas post, not specific to the UMC-750. He did say...

From looking around the web I see this question and many like it over and over again. I'd like to start by saying I understand this in itself is a loaded question, hence why maybe given my current...

We have a SuperMax YCM-TC-2 lathe with a build date around 1990 running Fanuc OT. The motherboard fried about 2 months ago and finally got the parameters and everything set so she works again.
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We have a SuperMax Max-3 mill that has been down for the better part of 5 months with various issues. The tool changer started by not calling up the correct tool or not doing a complete tool change....

I actually figured it out late last night, when I swapped the new relay board into the machine, I forgot to make sure the jumpers were on the pins, fixed it right up!

So to sum up a long story, about 5 months ago our SuperMax Max 3 (Mfg Date. 1995) start giving us tool changer issues; Such as pulling up wrong tools, odd rotation patterns, etc. The other engineer...

Mind you I did the diagnostics about 2 months ago, our lathe isn't used for any production so I put this on the back-burner till now. The machine was running fine all day, but by 5p when I went to go...

So the company I work for now has only been in the manufacturing game 2 years, to start this new adventure some very old machines were purchased. Now that the division is doing well, the old machines...

I recently started at a new shop and we are looking to start outsourcing a lot of our production to local shops. A lot of our parts need to be machined with a clean look and no burrs to be sent...

Yeah I actually had to research because I thought Facemills and Shell Mills are basically the same thing anymore.

Well we are looking at running 8.0". I'll have to have my tool rep get me some pricing on that shell mill.

I'd preferably like to be able to run this with with one pass, not that at the proper speeds and feeds a two pass cut shouldn't be an issue.




The size tooling we are looking at I'd rather do...

I do have my worries about how true the table is on the machine, but we have the resources to attempt this and not do any damage to anyone. If it works awesome, if not we tried.

So I work for a performance shop that does everything from an oil change to a full blown track car build. I'm the Manufacturing Engineer in our R&D department. Currently all heads and cylinders go...

On Thursday our only lathe went down with a turret index issue. Basically the machine started to freak out, flipped back and forth a few times then froze in the tool change position. We got it...

We are a machine shop, I already have a 3D model designed for something easy I can mock up, just need to get some Polyurethane from Mcmaster for some vibration dampening. The company did come...

Sorry I don't see where else to post this,
We have a Roto-Finish system here at work (SVP-5-01-A1) and recently had the center drive shaft coupling go out. We run parts through this thing daily and...

So I am working on the coolant pump on our SuperMax lathe (YCM-TC-2). We recently got a brand new pump in (Fuji Electric Company 3-phase VKP073A-4Z). The issue is I can't seem to get any response...