G84 Tap Cycle, VFD, Floating Tap Holder and Mach3: Video

[JHChoppers]

Initial testing with the G84 Tap Cycle and Mach3: Using a floating tap holder from MariTool we were able to Tap ¼ 20 threads with almost no tuning to our system.

We disabled the dwell feature on the spindle start and stop and tested with foam core first, then plastic and finally the ½ plate of 6061

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/nQS2Q_aC_P4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6&amp;border=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/nQS2Q_aC_P4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6&amp;border=1</a>

Rock On Mach3 !

JH

[Hood]

Nice, good to see things are working well
I have  never done any tapping yet but just today a tapping head arrived from eBay so I will have to give it a go sometime.

Hood

[derekbpcnc]

ATC - mmmmmmm...drewl !

[Bjorn Toulouse]

Very nice!
What brand is the mill you are using?


Rex


EDIT: Nevermind, I figured it out.

[JHChoppers]

Looks like you found the build link...  Here it is for others that be looking

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,13365.0.html

I can't tell you enough how happy I am with Mach3.  It does have a couple issues when we do things we should be doing...  But overall, it is a very nice tool with the flexibility to allow us to customize just about anything we need.  THANK YOU !

JH