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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: JHChoppers on September 20, 2010, 10:45:23 AM

Title: G84 Tap Cycle, VFD, Floating Tap Holder and Mach3: Video
Post by: JHChoppers on September 20, 2010, 10:45:23 AM

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

http://www.youtube.com/v/nQS2Q_aC_P4&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1

Rock On Mach3 !

JH

Title: Re: G84 Tap Cycle, VFD, Floating Tap Holder and Mach3: Video
Post by: Hood on September 20, 2010, 12:37:08 PM

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

Title: Re: G84 Tap Cycle, VFD, Floating Tap Holder and Mach3: Video
Post by: derekbpcnc on September 20, 2010, 03:33:48 PM

ATC - mmmmmmm...drewl !

Title: Re: G84 Tap Cycle, VFD, Floating Tap Holder and Mach3: Video
Post by: Bjorn Toulouse on September 21, 2010, 07:36:16 AM

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


Rex


EDIT: Nevermind, I figured it out.

Title: Re: G84 Tap Cycle, VFD, Floating Tap Holder and Mach3: Video
Post by: JHChoppers on September 21, 2010, 10:22:28 AM

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 (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