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    How to pace prospecting to match shop capacity?

    What parameters do you use under the "Stock" tab for "Adjustments to remaining stock:" for all your rest machining tool paths? I am using tighter tolerances than you on the actual stock model, but I do that to avoid re-cutting certain areas. Maybe my tolerances are wrong here:
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    How to pace prospecting to match shop capacity?

    I'm using all new ones. Mostly waterline and raster for finishing and optirough to roughing. There are a lot of small pockets. I'm having to go down to .015" BEM with 5X reach. I'm using stock models and rest machining. That is what takes so long to calculate. If there's a better way, my ears...
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    How much is a fair price for moving a shop?

    Rigger delivered just my Brother for $2700 lol. They received the machine and then delivered it to me (which is common here, I think in the Midwest a lot of people have LTL drop it right to them). Massachusetts is a crazy expensive state. I wish. I've wanted to move up there, but my kid is in...
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    How to pace prospecting to match shop capacity?

    I'm offended. lol. The sarcasm in machining is crazy. I'm using MasterCAM 2022 and I've been using MasterCAM since X5 so I'm not sure switching that up would save me time but it is a good suggestion. If I added multi-axis I would save a lot of time. I probably am too cheap for the work I...
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    How to pace prospecting to match shop capacity?

    We have developed some relationships and I have subbed out some work in the past. I think we need more. We actually have a machine shop in the same buildings as us and he's about the same size. We've swapped a few jobs with him too. I think you have point here, though. Maybe my partner should...
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    How to pace prospecting to match shop capacity?

    I am, but I'm not getting it. I might need a little more help here. We take on too much work. We struggle to hit our deliveries because we took too much work. Once we finish the work, we end up being slow while we look for more. Rinse and repeat. I'm trying to figure how to balance it.
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    How much is a fair price for moving a shop?

    Hi Guys, I am thinking about moving my shop. I'm in Lowell, Massachusetts. I don't have an exact spot picked out yet and that's partly due to me not having an idea of how much moving would cost. I have balls parks on electrical and I will run air myself - just not sure what's fair for rigging...
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    How to pace prospecting to match shop capacity?

    I am already working a lot of hours. I think I could drastically improve things if I wasn't always "making the parts" to ship. I should probably come up with standard practices and setup sheets so that I can better hand them off to people (I have a few part time guys). I should probably be...
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    How to pace prospecting to match shop capacity?

    Hi Guys, Background: I have owned my own shop since 2018 and worked there nights and weekends up until about the end of October 2022. I am now full time. I have a business partner who is an engineer turned salesman. He and I met while working for an aerospace company years ago. He does know...
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    Looking for a new shop - Loading Question

    Yeah, I think it's going to be a pass for me. It's also near a train station so... would probably see that in certain cuts on the machines.
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    Looking for a new shop - Loading Question

    Hi Guys, Yesterday I went to look at a possible new shop. The unit is on the second floor of a building (building is built into a hill, so even though it's the second floor there is still ground loading). The floors are built to H-20 loading specs. This spec is for trucks. From what I can find...
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    Speeds and Feeds for Long Tools

    Hi Boosted, Thanks for the info. Do you know what radial DOC you are cutting with those parameters? Like do you make a pilot hole or just slot the helical interpolation?
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    Speeds and Feeds for Long Tools

    Yeah, and I did try the Helical tool with same specs. I couldn't get it to runout as good as the Harvey tool but it was better. Still not good enough but better. I was running it at 27k though, so like everyone is saying - I will reduce SFM like crazy. I tried helical at like .0025" pitch -...
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    Speeds and Feeds for Long Tools

    I will try running 30% SFM tomorrow morning. I told the customer I will be late...hate doing that, but I don't ship junk. Harvey makes flat bottom drills - I will look into Kennemetal and Sumitomo FBD's as well. Harvey is local so I would have it Tuesday though. I tried a 4.5mm first. I was...
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    Speeds and Feeds for Long Tools

    I have the same opinion of the long reach Harvey Stuff - I usually don't go with them for this sort of thing. I made the mistake of telling my tooling supplier just the specs I needed - I've had better luck with Helical long reach tools. I kind of put myself into this situation... I will look...
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    Speeds and Feeds for Long Tools

    Hi Guys, Having a problem and Harvey Tool isn't open today. I'm running a job in pure aluminum, Series 1000. I'm using Harvey 879308-C8 (DIA 0.125, .187LOC, 1.500RCH, 3FL, - V-Helix with TiB2 coating). It's 12X Reach. Machine is BT30, running Nikken BT30-MMC8C-105-AA holder. Currently the tool...
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    BROTHER SPEEDIO S700X2 PROBING ISSUES - NEED HELP!

    I'm getting pretty good results with M282 and M281. I'm using very small tools so I'd rather take longer than break tools. I was told that M281-289 are the BII settings and M298 with an L is the older version / Type A...not sure if that's correct but that's what Yamazen told me.
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    BROTHER SPEEDIO S700X2 PROBING ISSUES - NEED HELP!

    It started working with M298 L0 ... but that made me more confused in the High Accuracy Mode settings... lol. Ahhhh, haven't learned a new control in a while. Brings me back to the good ole' days. Anyone want to try and explain that to me? My machine is equipped with High Accuracy Mode BII. I...
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    BROTHER SPEEDIO S700X2 PROBING ISSUES - NEED HELP!

    I put M298 (with no L0) and it didn’t make a difference. I will try it with L0 today. I can change the batteries, but the probe was only installed less than a week ago. Maybe the batteries were no good. But like I said, the probe will come on and stay on if I’m in single block mode. Usually you...
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    BROTHER SPEEDIO S700X2 PROBING ISSUES - NEED HELP!

    I did turn it on and off. Didn’t help. I didn’t check dry run but i know that i can run a cutting program just fine so I’m not sure if it’s that.

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