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General Mach Discussion / Need some foundation advice please on my lathe please.
« Last post by boydage on April 06, 2024, 05:58:52 PM »Many years experience with a router. Only just enough with a converted lathe. The lathe I installed a 1.5kw VFD driven motor, made a new saddle and added HG rails to the mix with some closed loop steppers. I bought a 4 tool square turret. Very rarely I need to use it for timber turning up decorative house parts that might consist of a 140mm ball so needed a huge amount of X travel for a long tool.
It took a while to get the 4 tool turret to change both with programming and electrical connections. But it works and does the job. The saddle retracts right back to about 10mm before the homing switch before the turret rotates to position.
I am using the tool table offsets and have used a Z tool setter in a jig in my chuck with a G31 move to touch off each tool in the X direction.
Ok. What I didn't setup was any way to drill. And, I now have a part to make in the 100s that needs to be drilled, and a taper honed out. I have a large amount of X saddle and travel. I am going to manufacture a gang tooling setup to sit on the saddle in front of the turret.
I thought I could add some tool-change lines into my tool-change macro which is based on the sensor outputs for the turret. And add in the offsets into the tool table. Was unsure how to set clearances as they will be different to the turret. After reading a bunch of posts I am asking if this is the correct way to set my machine up? I have read people are using G52 offsets, new to me.
With this information in hand. How would I best setup this gang tooling turret lathe to operate? Asking now whilst I am in the machine design stage where to begin in the place of getting it wrong a bunch of times and coming here with a QBL. (quivering bottom lip) because it either does not work or more likely my machine has crashed. Thanks in advance.
It took a while to get the 4 tool turret to change both with programming and electrical connections. But it works and does the job. The saddle retracts right back to about 10mm before the homing switch before the turret rotates to position.
I am using the tool table offsets and have used a Z tool setter in a jig in my chuck with a G31 move to touch off each tool in the X direction.
Ok. What I didn't setup was any way to drill. And, I now have a part to make in the 100s that needs to be drilled, and a taper honed out. I have a large amount of X saddle and travel. I am going to manufacture a gang tooling setup to sit on the saddle in front of the turret.
I thought I could add some tool-change lines into my tool-change macro which is based on the sensor outputs for the turret. And add in the offsets into the tool table. Was unsure how to set clearances as they will be different to the turret. After reading a bunch of posts I am asking if this is the correct way to set my machine up? I have read people are using G52 offsets, new to me.
With this information in hand. How would I best setup this gang tooling turret lathe to operate? Asking now whilst I am in the machine design stage where to begin in the place of getting it wrong a bunch of times and coming here with a QBL. (quivering bottom lip) because it either does not work or more likely my machine has crashed. Thanks in advance.
