michiganbuck
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Good to list your location on PM,, down the pike that is often handy/an asset.
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triumph406
Titanium
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1) Pay your electric bill ON TIME, so as to avoid the electric being cutoff for a day right ahead of an important deadline, or being cutoff on a Friday and Monday is the first day it can be reconnected.
2) when you tap into the neighbours panel so you can keep working, never expect to hear the end of it.
2) when you tap into the neighbours panel so you can keep working, never expect to hear the end of it.
triumph406
Titanium
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get an electric crock pot and some Hot Dip Wax for protecting endmills.
So when your sorting endmills, you can keep them protected form getting damaged in the drawer. Great for reamers too.
Good for small Mild steel parts that are prone to rust.
Not good for finger tips.
So when your sorting endmills, you can keep them protected form getting damaged in the drawer. Great for reamers too.
Good for small Mild steel parts that are prone to rust.
Not good for finger tips.
Peter from Holland
Diamond
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2 Lumps of clay can make a good positionor for soldering or welding
triumph406
Titanium
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Provide newbies with a chart of materials, and associated speeds and feeds for drills,endmills, and reamers.
Show newbies how to run a bridgeport, make a few passes, drill some holes, ream so holes, so the newbie sees what it should look like.
Lock out lathes, keep newbies away from them.
Show newbies how to run a bridgeport, make a few passes, drill some holes, ream so holes, so the newbie sees what it should look like.
Lock out lathes, keep newbies away from them.
triumph406
Titanium
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If your not a mold maker, don't even think of quoting a mold. That will not be your biggest error (not me, somebody else thought they could be a moldmaker with zero experience)
If you make wax investment molds, buy a wax injector to test molds before shipping. Nothing worse then having a customer test a mold and find problems and get upset, with problems that could have been avoided (that was me)
If you make wax investment molds, buy a wax injector to test molds before shipping. Nothing worse then having a customer test a mold and find problems and get upset, with problems that could have been avoided (that was me)
michiganbuck
Diamond
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And a lump of clay on a long thin part can provide grinding and sometimes turning with no, or less chatter.
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triumph406
Titanium
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Get a Sunnen hone, every shop should have one, mandrels,stones, trueing sleeves etc easily had on ebay
triumph406
Titanium
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1) If you have a Fadal with the VHT (20/30hp) motor, take off the low speed belt and run it in high gear all the time.
2) if the error messages on the Fadal Baldor Vectorless drive are so extensive it's like reading a chapter of war and peace, ignore them. If it still runs after resetting the machine it's all good. Until it's not.
3) On a fadal change the way lube metering units periodically, and flush out the lines with kerosene.
4) on a fadal check the way adjuster gibs are getting lubed.
5) keep a few resolvers on hand if you have DC servos. Remember where you put them.
2) if the error messages on the Fadal Baldor Vectorless drive are so extensive it's like reading a chapter of war and peace, ignore them. If it still runs after resetting the machine it's all good. Until it's not.
3) On a fadal change the way lube metering units periodically, and flush out the lines with kerosene.
4) on a fadal check the way adjuster gibs are getting lubed.
5) keep a few resolvers on hand if you have DC servos. Remember where you put them.
Johnhudson
Aluminum
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Measure twice cut once.
Create good habits.
To have the best you have make it yourself.(circa 1991)
Create good habits.
To have the best you have make it yourself.(circa 1991)
Terry Keeley
Stainless
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This is handy for holding things in place like strips of aluminum to chuck jaws or even gage blocks (I know but I just had a pair that wouldn't "mate" by themselves and the part I was checking wasn't critical to tenths).
triumph406
Titanium
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If you have adhesion problems with 3D prints, Elmers 'Purple' glue works great. Very cheap if you buy in bulk
DouglasJRizzo
Titanium
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On machining centers with the ability, tap in IPR mode (G95 usually) for better and easier control over thread lead. Make sure you revert back to IPM (G94) when you're done to avoid "mysterious" issues.
In IPR mode, thread is 1/#thds. Regardless of speed change, the lead remains constant. Even better if you have Synchro tapping (rigid tap).
In IPR mode, thread is 1/#thds. Regardless of speed change, the lead remains constant. Even better if you have Synchro tapping (rigid tap).
John Garner
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- south SF Bay area, California
I thought the difference between theory and practice is that in theory there isn't any.
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