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    Starrett SR300 Surface Roughness Tester *Needs Repair*

    As title says, I have my 3.5 Year old surface roughness tester up for sale. It was $3700 new so I figured someone out there would interested In picking it up and fixing it. The battery died a couple months ago, starrett would not send us a replacement battery, only would let us send in for a...
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    C Axis Lathe Trying feed in below center line

    Trying to machine a oval shaped flange od on a bushing prox 4.5" dia. Using Fusion 360 for this, the software only will let me start the profile from feeding in 5" below center, which obviously the lathe doe snot go that far below zero. If there a setting to move this? it is a contour tool...
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    Adding high volume production to the shop??

    We are a small job shop, well established & very busy with our current customers and honestly can not take on much more work without adding employes and machines. Adding the machines would be the easy part, the employees on the other hand are hard to come buy around our area. I have been...
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    Panel Saw Reccomendation

    We are a machine shop that recently brought in some bigger machines to do larger work. That said larger parts require more crating than we are used to. We have an older table saw we use for cutting our plywood however it is small and cutting 8ft sheets does take up a decent amount of floor...
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    Variable Spindle Speed using Fanuc Oi Plus iHMI Control

    Looking to see what options we have for utilizing a variable spindle speed for turning long parts. Our old haas had this option and it work mint, (other than being a haas) however as far as I am aware, there is no code on a fanuc for this. Is creating a macro really the only option? There have...
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    CNC PROGRAMMER/MACHINIST WANTED Leominster MA

    Small shop, just celebrated 25 years in the business, always busy never had a lay off. Oldest machine is 2017, most are 2022-2023 models. Hiring experienced CNC Programmer/Machinist to run Lathes and Mills, Fanuc Controls. Pay $30-$40+ based on experience. Will Consider Mill Only experience or...
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    CamWorks Moving to Subscription Based Only?!

    Anyone else get the email that CamWorks seats would no longer be supported after 2024/2025 and the only purchase option is for subscription based? Unless i read the email incorrectly? I guess we may need to be searching for a new CAM package
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    HAAS 6" CNC Vise

    So we need to order 2 new vices for one of our machines. We have D688 Kurts and DX6 ones, honestly i liked the D688 Kurts over the new DX6 ones. Haas offers Kurt, however i noticed today that thier 6" CNC vise (Non Kurt, Ground 4 Sides) is on sale for $407 from $699. For the price i am...
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    Hard Turning Thread Insert

    We have a job that needs a 5/16-24 thread turned on some hardened steel (HRc 62). The OD is already to size, only 1pc so grinding is not really economical, however it may be our only real option. Anyone have experience with threading tools for material this hard?
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    SMART MACHINE TOOLS - Who has one? How has it held up?

    So there were quite a few threads on smart machine tools, especially when they first began importing. Alot of the things said about the smart machines, were the same said about Samsung when they first came out. Originally they were importing SMART from taiwain but it appears they have thier own...
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    Struggle Finding New Employees.

    We have been struggling finding new employees, specifically machinists for our shop since beginning of the pandemic. We use indeed mostly for our job postings, have not had great luck with craigslist or facebook adds. Our benefits, salary etc, are in line and even above most of the other...
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    CNC Machinist/Programmer Massachusetts $30-$40/hr

    Looking for an experienced CNC machinist/Programmer with both lathe and mill experience. Machinist is responsible for programming and machining parts to print, complete. We are a job shop, high mix low volume work, mostly serving the power gen industry. Different materials and parts almost...
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    Boring Inserts Chipping Premature

    Having issues with boring inserts breaking prematurely. Material is 1018, roughing about .100 total out of the hole, and a finish pass with same tool. We have tried both TPGH and CCMT Carbide and Cerment inserts for this operation. aprox .025 DOC .007/rev going 2" deep in a 1.50" dia hole...
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    FUSION 360 NPT THREADS

    So we use CAMWorks, but only have 1 seat. Sometimes in a pinch i need to used Fusion 360, which I do not mind, its fairly simple and tool paths are decent, especially for the price, However, could someone explain to me how Fusion will not let me model & cam NPT threads but has BSP, GB, ISO...
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    New Renishaw Probe Repeatability Issues

    We have a brand new machine, with a fanuc Oi-MF plus control. We have had some issues with the canned probing cycles, first we have broke 2 tips measuring z, different days at random using canned cycle, almost like probe does not rigister the surface on first touch, but this has only happened...
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    Time to buy a....Cylindrical Grinder?

    We need to add in house OD grind capability, we make lots of nitrided bushings, valve stems & pins, and 60% of the stuff goes out to grind prior to Nitride. Low quantity high mix work. We have a Sunnen hone, works great for the stuff we do, so do not reccisarily need ID capabilities on the...
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    LATHE & MILL MACHINIST/PROGRAMMER MASSACHUSETTS $28-$40/hour

    Small Shop looking for experienced machinist programmer. Job shop enviornment, different material and type of parts daily. Mostly Power Gen work. 2 Axis lathe, 3Axis Mill. Stainless, bronze, alloy steels. Pay $28-$40 per hour. Looking for a top tier machinist and willing to pay top rate...
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    Quality "Commodity" Lathes

    We are in market for a new lathe, (replacing out 2019 Haas ST20)...Next machine requirements are.....not a haas, 10-12" chuck and 32"+ Z with a tailstock. Fanuc control, Y or C would be nice but not required. Type of work is Hi-Mix Low Volume Work, Steel, SS, Inco, Bronze, & Cast Iron. We...
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    Understanding Spindle Torque Charts

    We have a new machining coming in replacing our haas. The new machine has a 40HP Cat40 Direct Drive 2 Speed 15k Spindle, The haas had a 15k 30hp spindle. After comparing torque charts, the haas looks like in only has about 5-8 ft lbs lower thru the curve than the new machine. To me this...
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    Yama-Seiki BM series VMC

    We are looking at a BM-1500 (new model, not on website yet), machine is a boxway 59x29x24 travel machine, 15k CT40 Big plus. Anyone have experience with these BM machines as far as reliability? on paper the machine looks solid, and i have no doubts about capeability for what we do here but...

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