captaingamez Posted March 23, 2015 Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 I have decided to tear mine down and give it a fresh coat of paint and clean the crap out of it. Ill post updates in here. I am so excited to get it cutting parts. I have some serious work I plan on making to sell. 1 Quote Link to comment
Mattndew76 Posted March 23, 2015 Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 Classic machines are awesome to have around. I have an heirloom headed my way after the Step Father decides he no longer needs his old South Bend Lathe. Quote Link to comment
Icehouse Posted March 24, 2015 Report Share Posted March 24, 2015 My replacement cheapy screen came in! only cost me 65 bucks to fix the screen! Glad I didn't order the 450$ kit :) 2 Quote Link to comment
mklotz70 Posted March 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2015 Very sweet!!! Quote Link to comment
captaingamez Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 i think that color would give me a headache lol00 Quote Link to comment
Josh K. Posted March 26, 2015 Report Share Posted March 26, 2015 I want this machine: http://www.premierequipment.com/product/1987-tsugami-ma3-multi-station $9,800!! 1 Quote Link to comment
Icehouse Posted March 27, 2015 Report Share Posted March 27, 2015 i think that color would give me a headache lol00 All the green? I remember getting the first gameboy that came out for christmas when I was a kid. Green is the shit! Wish it played the tetris music while I machined :) 950k points is my record on the updated version tetris + what a game! 1 Quote Link to comment
.sunlover Posted March 27, 2015 Report Share Posted March 27, 2015 This is the newest addition to our MDM shop. 1 Quote Link to comment
captaingamez Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 Have any of you guys ever scrapped a lathe bed? Just curious. Quote Link to comment
q-tip Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 I watched our old maintenance guy hand scrape the ways on one of our mills and the ways on our surface grinder, long tedious process. Quote Link to comment
Laecaon Posted April 1, 2015 Report Share Posted April 1, 2015 We had a guy crash a lathe so hard the ways had to be replaced. Quote Link to comment
q-tip Posted April 1, 2015 Report Share Posted April 1, 2015 We had a guy crash a lathe so hard the ways had to be replaced. God damn, that's a good one. The guys make him sign it? Quote Link to comment
captaingamez Posted April 1, 2015 Report Share Posted April 1, 2015 We had a guy crash a lathe so hard it broke the spindle casting and destroyed half the machine. Wrong setup, wrong offset, machine on %50 rapid mode. Quote Link to comment
Mattndew76 Posted April 1, 2015 Report Share Posted April 1, 2015 Great oogly moogly... Total catastrophic breakdown... Quote Link to comment
q-tip Posted April 1, 2015 Report Share Posted April 1, 2015 Worse we have had happen is tossing a 10ton part out of a vertical lathe. Quote Link to comment
captaingamez Posted April 2, 2015 Report Share Posted April 2, 2015 Yeah I dont have anything awesome like throwing a multi ton casting through a wall like Q-tip does though. Luckily the worst I have ever done is forget to remove a hold down bolt and ruin a carbide tool. Quote Link to comment
Josh K. Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 I finished a long term project today. This is for a high production (11,000/month) project. This is on our NH4000DCG Horizontal. Air pneumatic dovetails and vacuum workholding. Push/Pull valving and fully shrouded in stainless. Rev3.0 Guts Stripped Replumbed with push/pull valves Center shrouds Finished I call it the "Vending Machine" :) 3 Quote Link to comment
Mattndew76 Posted April 28, 2015 Report Share Posted April 28, 2015 FYI... A HAAS VF4 1998 cannot keep up with itself over 75 IPM feed rate. It is poo poo. Circles and corners look like sun baked turds. 1 Quote Link to comment
graveltrapp Posted April 28, 2015 Report Share Posted April 28, 2015 I'm using a "97" VF2 daily and it just keeps up with 60-70 imp. Sometimes master cam spits out some crazy 150 kind of shit and if I don't catch it soon enough things get ugly fast. We also have a much newer VF3 that can comfortably do 90-100 with a 3 inch mill. Big difference in ability. I try to keep the VF2 at about 40 imp for my own sanity. Quote Link to comment
dr.feltersnatch Posted April 28, 2015 Report Share Posted April 28, 2015 I would be bored to tears cutting at 40 ipm. I am currently cutting with a 2 inch facemill at 600 ipm trying to figure out how to speed it up. Its a 74 hp spindle and we are running about 120% spindle load. Quote Link to comment
dr.feltersnatch Posted April 28, 2015 Report Share Posted April 28, 2015 I would be bored to tears cutting at 40 ipm. I am currently cutting with a 2 inch facemill at 600 ipm trying to figure out how to speed it up. Its a 74 hp spindle and we are running about 120% spindle load. Quote Link to comment
graveltrapp Posted May 3, 2015 Report Share Posted May 3, 2015 This machine would crap its pants at anything close to half those feeds, the max spindle speed is 7500. In reality the machine can handle closer to 100 ipm but it would be pushing its comfort zone 600 is insane and to stressful for me not to mention hard to see what it is your working on. Must just be a blurry coolant show. X2 Spent last week working on a Flow Waterjet, I really wasn't looking forward to it but turns out to be kind of a fun/ different toy to play with while getting paid. Quote Link to comment
q-tip Posted May 3, 2015 Report Share Posted May 3, 2015 You guys saying 600ipm as in surface feed or feed rate? Edit: cancel that, went back and read it again....Jesus Christ 600ipm! Quote Link to comment
graveltrapp Posted May 3, 2015 Report Share Posted May 3, 2015 The scale of the parts you work on I suppose would be measured in ipd (inches per day). That's my kind of feeds and speeds. I can see it now, I am listening to classical music and sipping my double burgamount Earl Grey. While just turning my first . 100 thou. Sounds very nice. 600 is pretty insane more like death metal and 3 Redbulls. 2 Quote Link to comment
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