Might as well jump on the pile, HAAS VF2 had serious issues with the tool freezing in the spindle if left overnight. Once it was so bad we had the tool change arm get stuck, and flex so far the retaining button jammed. Had to dissassemble half the tool changer. After that, no tools left in...
We had a new multiaxis lathe brought in (think it was the Tsugami) that had temperature compensation, needed to hold a couple tenths in superalloy on a bolt shank. The machine swung over 20 degrees F during the day, and could never hold size when it did. Had to get their install techs in to...
I was told they need to cut both sides at once to stop warping, don't know how true that is. I've seen them cut on a normal lathe that worked great and I've seen them that potato chiped reguardless.
As for the boring bar, I have seen one single bar that was solid carbide, brazed on steel...
I've spent a fair amount of time fighting with LED bulbs for automotive fitment, I can tell you they run the gamut from massively superior to downright idiotic. Buying name brand (Sylvania) bulbs of the appropriate type usually goes well, they can be a full radial light pattern and new ones...
Drill .25 hole at center of first knockout. Install .25 dowel pin (or suitable locating geometry to drop into matching holes). Make locating fixture that dowel pin drops into for each location. Move dowel pin to first hole, punch, move to next hole, punch, repeat until done. Go back and...
If you are interested in building a better web page, I recommend concrete https://www.concretecms.com/. You can also just buy web page templates that you plug your own images and text into. If you want exposure, you need to learn SEO, search engine optimization. There are a lot of people...
It was the original die sinking process, you make a "cherry" that is shaped to match the pocket with file-like teeth on it. The cherry oscillated in a motion that drags the teeth in a cutting motion, then lifts up and advances forward again, similar to a shaper. The machine I saw just had an...
I'm going to second Balax, we used them almost exclusively for tapping in a wide range of materials. Except the 8-32 helicoil tap, that one always gauged undersize for some reason. And form taps are not actually round, they have a lobular cross section that concentrates the forming forces and...
My brother just had solar installed on his house. The relevant information is that he's in Florida, where they get enough sunlight to make it feasible, he has a new house with a new roof, it was done by Tesla and has their warranty (chinese made components, but they still warranty it), and he...
The only time I can remember using a radius gauge was hand grinding some lathe tools for turning plastic, inspection was always done on either the shadowgraph, the CMM, or using gauge pins.
At one point they dragged the short guy from the auto shop to help out running some of the machines. He was a pretty good bike builder, and a decent mechanic, but should'nt have been anywhere near the machines. He was doing some busy work between cycles, wiping down the lathes, and stuck his...
I had a 10" round of grey PVC I had to take quite a lot off of, I just used sharp HHS and ran it fast enough the string was nearly molten, coming off shiny and cooling in the air. I just set up a shop vac above the machine to suck up the string. Pulled the resulting wad out of the vac and made...
I've been complaining a lot lately about the horrible videos YT has been spamming me with like this, piss poor craftsmanship with garbage tools and ugly results, I don't care and it's certainly not "amazing technology" or "expert craftsmanship". And it all has the same horribad music with the...
I had an incident where I was trying to grind a lathe tool bit by hand, and the safety idiot came by and yelled at me for not having the shields down over the grinder. I was told the grinder could not be operated without the shields in place, so when the plant manager came by I was just...
We've had luck with this using a 2 piece plug, a third on top under the hole, the rest tapered for easier removal. We even managed to waste more time screwing around trying NOT to make a plug than we did making the plug before we gave up and made the plug anyways. Twice, because the engineer...
Since the car accident I've become completely intolerant of heat, so finding a place with proper climate control has become a severe issue for me. What I've learned is that every single watt you put into a place needs to get added to the heat creep from outside when you are factoring for AC...
I'm going to agree with spot weld cutter. I have a similar looking wood turning center, the point in the center to locate it is much finer and sharper.
Have you looked at vapor degreasing? I remember we threw out our ultrasonic cleaner because it was leaving black wear marks on the parts, we primarily used vibratory tumblers for rough deburring, a magnetic stir deburring machine (sPINner I think it was called, it did an amazing job cleaning...
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