Absolutely Incredible CNC Mill
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treedoctor
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Such elegance
Prof. Gromore
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Probably about 3-4 hours. I used to work on machines similar to these and most 5 axis CNC programs are written using smart CAM software. Mind you there's a little tweaking involved, but all you really do is supply the computer with the tools that will be loaded into the machine, and the software does the rest. The geometry for that helmet probably came from a 3d scanner or an automated coordinate measuring machine. The newest CAM systems are great because they have collision avoidance programmed into them, so when you run a virtual demo you can see right away if anything's going to crash. What's really wild is that the machine in the video is considered small by industry standards.
fuck collision avoidance.
that was my favorite part of machining, waiting to see if it would crash. spent hours standing in front of a fadal entering codes one digit at a time. use to be cool to see fire come off the tooling.
thing wasn't even running coolant.
a friend of mine just bought an old hand cranker bridgeport. he may need help running it. not sure if i want to get involved or not.
Tenner
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I`m taking the machine didn`t belong to you?
I did a few things like forget the T key in the lathe chuck while high. Switch the lathe on and the T key hits the roof and falls next to me! Would scare the fuck out of me!!
i loved those machines more then the owner.I`m taking the machine didn`t belong to you?
I did a few things like forget the T key in the lathe chuck while high. Switch the lathe on and the T key hits the roof and falls next to me! Would scare the fuck out of me!!
i burned up a few tools, never had any major crashes though.
we had a bug in one of the mills. the owner was fucking with it trying to troubleshoot it. we warned him NOT to turn it on and if you do, DO NOT try to send it home. the first thing he tried.
the head came down in a "pecking mode" and started hammering itself into the table. BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, ... boss just stands there watching it. looks at me and says 'think it will go all the way thru?" i reached over and hit the big red button.i had a tool rep come in one day and help me set up a program. we were throwing off chips the size of nickles. coming off a chunk of solid steel, running dry. it was chipping the paint on the inside of the machine. you could catch the chips as they came flying off the tool and they were barely warm. it was insane crazy though. the floor was shaking. all the dudes from the lathe department came in to watch. as soon as the rep left the boss came over and says "turn that shit down". fun while it lasted.
must be the new tooling they use. or they had air on it.
Tenner
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The place I was working at one of the workers dropped a steel sledgehammer (the handle was welded on 2 inch diamater steel rod) into a jaw crusher. It threw it straight out 5m into the air He was on top of the crusher as this happned (bashing a rock which wasn`t falling in and getting crushed. Must of been fucking scary for him to have that fly right past
My biggest accident was pressing "go sideways" to the saw of a block cutter as it was cutting through a block the size of a car. It didn`t take it very well, the protection kicked in but bent a £700 saw
He was on top of the crusher as this happned (bashing a rock which wasn`t falling in and getting crushed. Must of been fucking scary for him to have that fly right past My biggest accident was pressing "go sideways" to the saw of a block cutter as it was cutting through a block the size of a car. It didn`t take it very well, the protection kicked in but bent a £700 saw
RyanTheRhino
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I have tAken a few modern machinst class. I know how to write the code manually but the new cad software makes it so mch easier. Somthing like a tooth gear would take 5 min to draw on cad then click a button that writes code to your flash drive. walk over the cnc home the material set the bit Bit and press go .
It was a very cool thing to learn to pass my class I had to build a small steam engine using mills and lathe machine parts
excuse my spelling my fingers are too fat for my touchscreen phone
It was a very cool thing to learn to pass my class I had to build a small steam engine using mills and lathe machine parts
excuse my spelling my fingers are too fat for my touchscreen phone