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Hello,

I just hadn't thought about doing it that way. I had Rhino CAM cutting the Flats of the nut and making the internal hole.

You're right I could just add the thread cutting Gcode to the...

Could any one point me to a tutorial or another source that would explain how to thread mill on Rhino Cam. I don't undertand the parmaters and I don't know how to set up a tool for a single point...

Alan,

I have just registered with WNT and its a vast range. Will take me some time to look through. Thank you for the info.

Bob,

Yes just been looking at the ISCAR online catalogue and have...

John,

Many thanks for the reply. I have just had a good look over the catalogue and I can't see any of the single point indexable thread mills. Virtually evrything but!

I have added them to my...

Hello,

I am trying to price up some single point insert thread milling cutters for both internal and external threads. I have seen some stuff that vargus/vardex makes and some iscar tools that may...

TM-1 arrived and the three phase delta ( 3 live +seperate earth) is indeed fine for UK equipment.

Xformer taps set correctly. Mill powered up just fine.

Now scheduling commisioning visit.

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Thankyou both for the replies.

Cable ran was 3 x 4mm2 cores and a seperate 6mm earth. 4mm rated at 25A per core. Cable run is 30ft long in free air. breakers at 20A per phase on distribution...

Hello,

HAve a TM-1 turning up from UK on Friday. I have just had 3 phase run as a 3 core cable plus seperate earth from the distibution board.

Looking at the tm-1 addendum it seems to show 3...

Geoff,

Many thanks for the reply.

Aha, I see (re spiral point and spiral flute)

That makes sense.

I couldn't seem to get the picture right in my head.

Well after a long time saving....and A long time choosing....

I finally bit the bullet and I have bought a brand new TM-1. Should be here in 2-3 weeks. Cant wait.

So I am going through the...

Keith,

yes thats the machine. Yep I noted length of time and reduced price and bargined vey hard. We agreed price and they confirmed via email. I rang up to pay them and they had sold it! A tad...

Hello,

In the next day or two I will more than likely be handing over the credit card details in order to purchase a second hand Hurco Hawk 5D with Hurco Delta CNC - 3 axis controller.

This is...

IH,

Many thanks for the reply. I will contact you directly via email.

Best Regards,

Simon

thank you philbur. that price does sound reasonable. did it include any sort of insurance in case the boat sank? How long did it take to get to you?

Best regards,

Simon

Hello,

Anyone in the UK bought an IH CNC turnkey?

Thinking shipping \ power might be fun. Although $->£ still holding around ~1.9 ->2.0

I have a manual RF45 clone and its done the necessary...

Bob : thankyou for the reply now i know where i would put my efforts. excellent. thats answered that one.

I think the next bit of work i will do is converting the z to stepper based control so I...

well managed to do a bit of measuring.....

These aren't majorly scientific but i used one arm to push and pull the column as hard as i could and measured the deflection at various points up the...

i am going to try a bit more measurement as tai suggests. a good idea and hopefully reasonably easy to determine where the problem lies. many thanks. i'd never have thought of that.

then depending...

The mill is like this one. http://www.chesteruk.net/store/super_lux_mill.htm. It probably an older model though. Also mine has a cast iron stand not the steel one shown.

I can understand the...

All,

Many thanks for the replies.

I should have said that this deflection is measured from the ways of the vertical column ( ie no spindle or vertical slide mounted ) to the table with both the...

How would you modify an IH type mill specifically to improve rigidity. I don't mean dampening. I mean how would you modify the column and base to reduce the deflection of a few thou when hand...

I,ll be very interested to know if the epoxy concrete does cause any warping of the frame?

I just happen to have my IH / RF-45 / ( insert 100 other names here) in bits after lapping the axis....

I have been reading posts in the cnc zone for a long time now. a very good source of info.

I am attempting to scratch build a cnc gantry mill from alumininium extrusion, thk rails, and ball...