I think you need to spend a bit more time with HSMXpress. It is very easy to use, and incredibly powerful - much more so than any other CAM I've used. Once you setup templates, you can generate part programs in a small fraction of the time it takes to do the same job in VisualMill. More important, I can guarantee you, properly used, it will DRAMATICALLY reduce your run times compared to the very poor code that VisualMill creates. Making good use of 2D Adaptive roughing with suitable (i.e. - VERY FAST) feeds and speeds, can reduce your roughing time by as much as a factor of 3, while also increasing tool life. You'll get more out of HSMXpress than you will out of a motor "upgrade", and all it will cost you is a little time to learn it.
Regards,
Ray L.
Yeah I thought that what rowbare detailed made sense too. I just love reading all the highly "emotional" responses though...it is pretty amazing the level of ownership that folks have for the status quo. Hey it is your machine to work with so do what makes sense for you. I think what you are thinking of doing is a pretty slick concept that we could all potentially learn from. If anything you will have the first "SVT" style Tormach to experiment with. How cool is that?
I'll have to try HSMX again, I thought AutoCad bought them up?
$170, brand new.
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in the machine model assy.
hunting for GT2 sprockets and hubs now
Nice! Any chance that you could chrome the fan housing on that motor?
a comment on single phase to 3 phase vfd, vsd or what ever, the machine I run is on a VSD that could have single or 3 phase in when doing big cuts when it was drawing through single phase the VSD ran up very very fast on amp draw. the shed got converted to 3 phase and blow me down I can do bigger and deeper cuts know that it has 3 phase on it and the draw is very low high it was getting up to 5 amp now 1 to 2 amp
just my 3 cents for ya
one other thing in NZ single phase is 240 3 phase is 460
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yer it was just a comment on something I saw that made a improvement to the motor I through it might be something use full to know
you math gives me a understanding why it`s better thanks for that
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design is coming along,
sprockets ordered, belt spec'd
Cylinder on hand
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On my knee mill I can really gouge out some material with no sweat. Mill is very stiff.
So here is one for the thinkers our there.
It occurred to me that I could add some stiffness and damping relatively easily and inexpensively by filling the castings with epoxy coated river rock pebbles, or coarse sand for that matter.
Let the flaming conjecture and or seasoned veteran engineer sage wisdom begin!
Yeah, I'm serious.
Man you are moving right along on this one. What you are thinking is probably a lot smarter than pouring expanding foam into the casting, but let's keep with the theme here and keep the topic on track OK? In that spirit this is the route that I would go with....
HardBlok Water Jacket Filler - Increase Horsepower For High Performance Engines.
I mean I'm thinking laterally here about getting more HP right?
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There is a whole forum section here discussing epoxy machine builds, some of which is applicable to dampening machines by filling cavities. Lots of discussion of the optimum mixture of resin and aggregate sizes to maximize dampening.
http://www.cnczone.com/forums/epoxy-granite/
Tim
Tormach 1100-3, Grizzly G0709 lathe, Clausing 8520 mill, SolidWorks, HSMWorks.
This is looking like a project now! yea
I had considered mentioning the fill column and or base with epoxy and a dense rock idea! Would have to form around the screws. I looked at this a while back and it didn't seam like you could get all that much in there. And I wondered what would work best for a material, like a non shrink grout used in structural steel column bases or an epoxy like material they talk about in other threads on this forum.
Anyway I concluded the ways, gibs, spindle and spindle head would be the parts that need attention first then move on to what I see as marginal gains in stiffness.
Everything makes some difference and would not hurt if done right. "Opinion from the cheap seats Im not bankrolling project"
Keep us updated!
md
Did you see Bob Warfield's post where he did just that to his IH mill? CNCCookbook: Epoxy Granite Fill
You want to get some small material in there too though otherwise you are wasting $$$ epoxy. You need about 5 sizes of aggregate in there down to rock dust to get good filling. The EG guys seem to be aiming for 9-10% epoxy finding 8% to be a bit weak. However for a machine fill I am sure that 8% would work well.
bob