Hello all, thank you for the space.
I'm about to run a couple of production parts on my Haas ST25y with a Bar Feeder and am looking for some help to speed things along.
They're very simple straight forward parts. The tricky part is cutting the internal threads in GR-2 Ti. The threads are 3/8-16" & 1/2-20", about .500" deep. I was previously doing this, single point style with a Micro 100. But my quantities have risen, I do have a Bar Feeder, so I'm trying to keep this as hands off as possible.
One option, I could threadmill them since it's a Y-axis lathe. But that will require a new/custom post and Mastercam just doesn't talk to the Y-axis very well IMO.
Tapping seems out of the question for my quantities. Right now about 200, but those numbers will keep rising.
Is there a multipoint internal threading tool that will stand up to more abuse than a single point, and also cut down to a 3/8-16 I.D? What am I missing?
-j
I'm about to run a couple of production parts on my Haas ST25y with a Bar Feeder and am looking for some help to speed things along.
They're very simple straight forward parts. The tricky part is cutting the internal threads in GR-2 Ti. The threads are 3/8-16" & 1/2-20", about .500" deep. I was previously doing this, single point style with a Micro 100. But my quantities have risen, I do have a Bar Feeder, so I'm trying to keep this as hands off as possible.
One option, I could threadmill them since it's a Y-axis lathe. But that will require a new/custom post and Mastercam just doesn't talk to the Y-axis very well IMO.
Tapping seems out of the question for my quantities. Right now about 200, but those numbers will keep rising.
Is there a multipoint internal threading tool that will stand up to more abuse than a single point, and also cut down to a 3/8-16 I.D? What am I missing?
-j