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rklopp replied to the thread New machine day (FP3NC).Vactra 4, DTE medium (ISO 46?), Koolmist (yuck, not recommended, but ya gotta do with what ya got in an attached residential garage). -
rklopp replied to the thread New machine day (FP3NC).Right, the locating dowels are steeply tapered, so if the head is shimmed away from the ram face, the dowels don't mate up with their...
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rklopp replied to the thread VMC 650 (chinese machine NEW) Metrol toolsetter.For issue 2, it sounds like are you not accounting for the master tool length when you touch off the master tool on the top of the part...
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Got the wheels on the control cabinet and got it nestled in with the cabinet and up and running decent. I replaced the under console...
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rklopp replied to the thread Using a Mist Coolant System, or Not?.If it was me and unless I was making lots of parts, I'd rough dry while keeping the speed proper for tool life, and then switch to dark...
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So I've been talking to Ross and Rich a little about a voltage issue I was having. The machine would come on and the control would...
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rklopp replied to the thread OT: finger tips and indications of health?.One quick way to assess blood pumping in an emergency is to press down on a fingernail until it goes from pink to white underneath and...
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rklopp replied to the thread New machine day (FP3NC).Nice!! How's the right side face of the left Z way? That's the one that is notorious for galling, and was galled on my old FP2NC...
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rklopp replied to the thread D4 Programming Question.Here's another possibility that I have no way of testing anymore. It depends on whether you are allowed to use a parameter to point to a...
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rklopp replied to the thread 1970 Modular Drive 10EE Electrical Problem - overspeeding.Does the RPM go truly to 4000 or is it in a runaway condition due to having no field at all? On my 1967 machine, I sometimes get the...
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rklopp reacted to Donkey Hotey's post in the thread Haas VF4D Pre-NGC Setting Z Work Offset with
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I believe you want 64 to be off. If you're using a presetter or the table or whatever as your master zero, all tool lengths should be... -
rklopp replied to the thread A simple question....I hope.Find someone junking an old Deckel FPxNC control. They rely on 240-380 3-phase transformers in the US. User "rimcanyon" here on PM might...
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rklopp replied to the thread D4 Programming Question.I can think of one way, but it's dumb and inefficient because it always runs the second pass but only cuts metal when necessary. Assign...
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rklopp replied to the thread Manual Lathe Recommendations.With that budget, you could buy Procyon's Weiler and be spoiled for life. Lower on the totem pole, Sharp, Kent, Acra Turn, and Acer all...