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Custom Rapid Overrides
On most older machines the default for rapid overrides seem to be 5, 25, 50, and 100%. Anyone messed around or looked into trying to "customize" the override settings? Most of my machines have some miles on them and usually run them at 50%. There are some jobs that make a considerable...- ducesrwld
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Machines - Leave em on or shutdown overnight
Curious what most small shop guys think on the subject. We only run 1 shift and are starting to run some 2nd shift on a few machines so they may run 12-16 hrs a day. At what point if any do you guys leave your machines on overnight if they aren't running lights out? I've always been under the...- ducesrwld
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Spring Cleaning - BT50 Pull Studs, BT40 Holders, HSS End Mills, Go No Go Gages
Making some room in the shop this stuff has been collecting dust. Most of it has some light rust spots from sitting a little steel wool cleans it up I tried showing this in a few pictures but hard to see. Going to make it real easy every item or set in the list is $25/each and buy $100 worth...- ducesrwld
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Yasnac LX3 Reloading Parameters / Reboot
Was having RS232 issues on my old Kia 15 w/ Yasnac LX3 control on it basically had no communication from computer to machine so couldn't back up the parameters. Took the old phone out and took screen shots of all settings/parameters/diagnosis pages. Sent board out to get RS232 components...- ducesrwld
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RS232 Working and Then Nothing
I've got an old Kia KT15 with Yasnac LX3 control that I setup a RS232 communication with DNC4U when I first bought it. Once I had it figured out thing worked like a champ sending/receiving programs to and from the machine. I hadn't used it in awhile powered it up tried sending a program and...- ducesrwld
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Haas Parts for Sale
Have some stuff laying around that could use a good home have the following: New I/O board was told should fit most mills lathes besides old brush style machines and latest control they are just coming out with its dated from 2013 still in bag New PCB board for floppy interface Several 1.5"...- ducesrwld
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Garage Shop in Res Area
i've been getting my garage overhauled to eventually run a small hobby/job shop and hopefully have a couple mills and a lathe in there down the road. so far i have insulated and put up plywood, jackhammered the old slab since it was in bad shape and just had the new concrete poured in with some...- ducesrwld
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EDM cost for tall Al parts
i am not that familiar with edm's but believe they may have a solution to helping me machine some large billet pieces. i am thinking about having them blanked out on an edm. it would have to be a fairly large edm, parts are 15'"-18" in length by about 12" wide. material is 6061-T6...- ducesrwld
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- Forum: EDM Machining