Hey guys. Quoting brought me an RFQ the other day that I shot down on principle, but it got me thinking. So, the part is UHMW plastic. It was roughly 2.5” OD, 37.50” long, and called for a thru hole. 1.250” diameter, +/-.001” all the way thru. No tolerances on runout or straightness, it was a...
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I have a task at hand and need help figuring out how to do it. We have a Haas TL-2 lathe. For a reason that escapes me, Haas manufactures these machines with a spindle bore of exactly 3.000" - or perhaps even a thousandth or two under. We all know the old adage, a half-inch pin...
Hi folks. We have a pretty good job that we do often, it is an 8-piece set of a crimping die. Good work, we have some good fixtures and processes made for it. Typically, the pieces are made of D2.
For scale's sake, each piece approximately 2" long, just over 3/8" thick (10mm to be exact), and...
Hey folks. I need to bounce an idea off of some more experienced maestros. First, a little back-story:
Our shop has two slant-bed CNC lathes, both Haas, an SL-20 and SL-30 Big Bore. Both are of early 2000's vintage. The SL-20 has a bolt-on style turret, the SL-30 has a VDI40 turret. Neither...
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Our shop struggles when milling flat plates. It is a job shop, so this can mean anything and everything, but perhaps as an average, say something around 4 x 8" long/wide, 3/8" thick. They can be smaller, or much larger. Any material - we have struggled with stainless, 4140 AN, even...
Gentlemen. I've a serious problem!
We have a Haas SL-20, made in 2000. Nice machine. Still holds tenths to this day. But we have had a problem rear its head as of late.
The more immediate problem is as such. We are single-pointing an I.D. thread, 7/8-14, in brass. Using a laydown-style ID...
Gentlemen, I'm in need of some direction.
The shop I work at has a part that we are beginning to make a large quantity of, it's getting to the point of a couple of hundred per week. Dead simple part, a 2" OD x 1.885" long cylinder with a non-critical, .562 hole through. But it being 304 SS has...
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