What an endeavor but already so worth it! Ready to let the chips fly!
Thanks @oneeartim for taking the time to go poke around your machine. That helped in my continued investigation this morning. Long post today but to summarize:
1. Tool manufacturer models are most likely reliable but doesn't hurt to measure.
2. Haas set up my machine with the gage line at the spindle face (which is not the plane that intersects the taper at a 1.750" diameter). I recalibrated the machine and now I can reliably use the values Fusion spits out for gage length for my estimates (within about .025" of what ends up being the measured gage length)
Thanks again, the #instamachinist community is awesome 😎
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Had a @johngrimsmoknives moment today (trust nothing, measure everything). Turns out tool holder cad models from OEMs can be inaccurate. Measuring the holder on machine and applying the offset in @adskfusion solved the discrepancy I was seeing between Fusion gage length and measured gage length. Pretty happy with this!
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Wish I had done this much much sooner. 3D printed some TPU plugs to better manage chips that like to get between pieces of my @5thaxis zero point system.
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Lots of stickout on this one. Fun to use a collet holder that's likely older than I am 😂
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Fun with tabs
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Quick OP3 fixtures saving hours of manual post processing and deburring. HDPE is an economic solution for something you might only use a handful of times 👍🏼
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3D printed a set of custom jaws to hold these COPVs. They didn't quite have the stiffness to translate the gripping force all the way to the top of the bottle, lesson learned. Battled chatter issues before adding these clamps. Never thought these DeWalt clamps would be in a CNC machine 😂
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First hand written gcode to get this parabolic drill down 4" into the part without TSC. Generally spoiled with Fusion CAM, but there wasn't a cycle for what I needed to do here.
My approach:
Pilot hole to .002" over diameter of drill, down .75"
Spindle on to 10% normal drilling rpm (41 rpm)
Feed into hole at 10 ipm to .030" above pilot hole bottom
Spindle rpm to 4100 rpm
Peck 1xD at .003" ipr
Reduce peck depth by 10% each peck, do 3 total pecks with a .005" chip break retract
Spindle to 100 rpm
Full retract to clear chips
Repeat until at bottom of hole
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Haven't had a moment to show this off yet, but needed major diameter of an M12 and M16 thread today. This handbook was hand bound by my wife @whenbethwrites ! The covers are made from aluminum plate and the sewn in book mark is more useful than I ever thought it would be. Thanks hun!
I really struggled to find much information on YouTube or Instagram on using tooling balls to make complex setups easy on 3 axis machines. Wanted to put this out there as it may give you some ideas on your next challenging part!
Having this all work using my @5thaxis zero point system is truly great. Looking forward to this going much faster on the next one.
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A little lathe work finished up on the VF2. Without a 4th axis, I will probe my way to freedom 🫡
Angle plate from @5thaxis doing its thing!
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Here's to hoping this one finally gets me a @5thaxis reshare 😂
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Making something big today.. also solving an annoying problem that was keeping me from tackling this sooner: vacuum plumbing for large fixtures that work with 96mm @5thaxis rocklock bases.
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Can you ever really have enough fixturing?
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Took care of a long overdue shop project today.
I typically drain the reservoirs at the end of every day in the shop and this makeshift setup was never great, requiring the use of two hand to turn a valve while restraining the tube from flying everywhere. Also the valves were starting to leak.
Some quick CAD in @adskfusion and a 30 minute 3D print on my @bamboo.labs P1S fixed this. Draining straight into a 5 gallon bucket allows me to dispose of the oily water properly and the compressor only generates a few gallons a year. Very happy with this cap 😊
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So happy with how this modular zero point setup is coming along! Gargantuan vacuum plates next!
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Making some one of a kind tooling. Full assembly photos to come soon.
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Fun one this morning! First time this old Yuasa rotary has been on the machine.
@haas_automation sponsor me with a HRT160? 🥹
One of the more interesting soft jaws I've made to bore tight tolerance holes on these thin aluminum faces. 3D surfaced to relieve the edges of the jaw due to the relatively large internal radius on the part. Worked great, definitely worth time time invested!
Thanks @5thaxis for the awesome work holding!
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