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First 'bits' off our CNC mill...
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--- Quote from: Tommo on August 15, 2008, 20:00:04 ---lol its good to see someone getting some satisfaction out of the damn things lol. i nearly kicked some HAAS today on our newest MC. kept alarming out when you used the through spindle coolant, what a ball ache. rigged up a normal coolant setup for now because we cant seem to sort it. Ours must be a friday afternoon machine, its worse than the land rover! We have only just overcome the toolchange problems we were having where it was pulling out random tools! but we still cant use the ATC FWD feature for fear of confusing it so when tipping up etc its a bit more of a ball ache in MDI having to close the door etc.
just hope its more reliable by the time the warrenty runs out. its only 8 months old and has been nowt but trouble! the older two we have arent too bad just the occasional spazzing out of the touch setters and random air pressure alarms but nothing major.
Hows the silent compressor?
As for tooling i would suggest somthing like a 12mm coronite end mill for the finishing cut. should give an excellent finish and last a while and should do just about everything bar the smaller holes and the chamfers. Even on aluminium a HSS cutter isnt going to last long before giving you a shabby finish. we use sandvik 12mm coronites for pretty much everything lol, brilliant tooling.
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Our mill is just a 3 axis toolroom type with a carousel toolchanger, so we can't have predictive tool change trouble! But, I'm sure there's plenty more that might go wrong!!
We ended up with this compressor:
http://www.diy-compressors.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=28_23_70&products_id=377
Does all we need and is reasonably quiet.
The super quiet one that Machine Mart advertise was out of stock with no delivery dates, so we looked elsewhere.
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