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  1. stephon0913

    Bad chatter marks when profiling tight corners

    looking for some advice when profiling tight (sometimes close to a vertical wall) corners on patterns. these are made from a red urethane called tooling board. Its fairly hard stuff. the issue is that some of the corners have to be filleted pretty tight (up to 1/16 fillet) that mean getting into...
  2. stephon0913

    Machinists general rules of thumb

    Hey all, Thought this would be a rather fun and informing post. Me with having less than 5 years in the line of work haven't picked up on a whole lot of "rules of thumb" from machinists. So let's hear em...:cheers:
  3. stephon0913

    What to look for when buying used cnc mill center

    Ive been browsing around off and on looking for a cheap but decent cnc milling center i would prefer a haas or fadal as i know theyre probably going to get me the biggest bang for my buck (budget around $5k no more than $10k). Will be buying local so i can go and check it out in person. Just...
  4. stephon0913

    Where to start with opening my own shop

    HI ALL, let me start by saying it has been a dream of mine for the last few years to start my own shop. currently i have about 6 years manufacturing experience 3 of those cnc programming. i am confident that if i had the resources(money) for start up, even if that were enough to buy the very...
  5. stephon0913

    Machining small laser cut peices

    A few weeks ago my boss decided on getting these little tabs we make laser cut instead of being machined. now we are talking 3/16 mild steel getting cut into 1" x 2" pieces. we just received the first batch in today, so now all i have to do is drill a single hole in them.now the problem lies...
  6. stephon0913

    Dilemma about moving jobs: HELP

    Hi all So I've been working at my current job for about a year now. Very small shop that manufactures its own product line, private owner, wife and son work the office and 4 employees work the shop including me, the shop depends on everyone to function so it goes without saying that no ones...
  7. stephon0913

    Looking to learn the lathe

    This is in succession to my earlier post i am wanting to learn the lathe w/live tooling the only thing i will be producing for awhile is these flanges pictured below, not to difficult, the thing is i will be doing the programming by hand, i am a newer programmer that has mostly been brought up...
  8. stephon0913

    Programming lathe vs. Mill

    HEY ALL i have been operation and programming vertical mills for close to 3 years now and am wanting to break into some lathe work. from what ive been told and the little ive tinkered around with making programs for lathes it seems a lot easier, less axis' single offset (most the time) and just...
  9. stephon0913

    Poll:programmer salary vs years experience

    just wanted to touch bases with some other machinists/programmers about how long they have been in the business. ive been a machinist for 3 years now, programming for the last year and only making $16/hr. seems like the owners getting a hell of a deal if you ask me which is why i want to ask...
  10. stephon0913

    Dnc vs basic communications software

    I KNOW OF DNC BUT HAVE NEVER USED IT, FROM WHAT I KNOW ABOUT DNC IT BASICALLY "STREAMS" NC CODE FROM A COMPUTER TO THE MACHINE RATHER THAN JUST TRANSFERRING THE PROGRAM THE THE MACHINES MEMORY, ANYTHING IS BETTER THAN THE FLOPPY THAT IM USING NOW. MY MACHINE ALSO HAS A EITHERNET OPTIONAL PORT...
  11. stephon0913

    Process of figuring feeds and speed??

    Hello all i have never been taught a "proper" way of finding speeds and feeds when programming for a part. I usually take an educated guess and go from there. I just want to ask is there a process that other programmers go thru to figure these numbers. Im trying to take the time and setup my...
  12. stephon0913

    A decent speed and feed chart

    hello all i want to ask a question to some ppl that will be able to answer this question once and for all. does anyone know of a good reference guide or chart for speed and feed rates based on tooling and material??? also i wanted to know what everyone uses for this. most the time i start out...
  13. stephon0913

    benefits of subroutines

    hi all i have a question about sub routines and what the benefits to using them are. from what i know subs are a thing of the past to same handwritten programmers from having to write out a huge program when they can use the same code multiple times. ive noticed that almost all the programs that...
  14. stephon0913

    Conventional vs climb

    I somewhat new to machining and just trying to learn a thing or two from some ppl who know their stuff. Unfortunately the last two shops I've worked at never seemed to have very knowlagable machinists there. Any who my question is when and what would I use conventional milling and climb. From...
  15. stephon0913

    Help with milling some 316l

    My shop has recently took on a 316l job for production cycle time is about 4x longer what its mild steel counterpart takes to run is this normal
  16. stephon0913

    parasolid vs. solidworks part format

    im newbie at importing solids in mastercam i just want to know if it is normal that when i import a solidworks part file i cannot select wireframe entities for toolpath chaining i must use solid chaining, however if i save the part as a parasolid file and import it into mastercam i can use...
  17. stephon0913

    Applying toolpaths in mastercam to imported solidworks models

    Hi this may sound very stupid to some of you but we just purchased solidworks at my shop ive been building our part library and ive noticed when i open a solidworks model in mastercam ALL ENTITIES ARE JOINED TOGETHER for example i go to select a contour slot to mill and all entities highlight so...
  18. stephon0913

    Delete large tool pocket label on haas vf-4

    i need to know how to delete a "large tool" pocket label on a haas vf-4 i know how to label the pocket for a large tool but when i accidently put the label on the wrong pocket i have no clue how to remove it HELP PLEASE!
  19. stephon0913

    Inside chamfer w/ dovetail-mastercam

    Now i know this sounds stupid but i am having difficulty creating a toolpath for chamfering the inside of a rec. tubing wall in mastercam im using a .375 carb dovetail so most of all i need to enter and exit through the center of the hole so i dont gouge,break tool and part. i thought the way to...

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