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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: AL54b (lathe) project from New Zealand

« on: April 14, 2012, 01:45:58 PM »

Are you putting on sliding doors?

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: AL54b (lathe) project from New Zealand

« on: April 13, 2012, 10:21:42 PM »

Get any pics uploaded yet of rf45 enclosure?

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: AL54b (lathe) project from New Zealand

« on: April 12, 2012, 07:26:48 PM »

The Industrial hobbies forum is great over at CNC zone. It's basically a rf45 style mill.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: AL54b (lathe) project from New Zealand

« on: April 12, 2012, 07:23:53 PM »

Please do! I bought all the metal, but haven't started yet...

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: AL54b (lathe) project from New Zealand

« on: April 12, 2012, 05:08:22 PM »

Are you building an enclosure for the rf45?

I'm building one for mine right now, and would love to see other designs

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General Mach Discussion / Re: kennametal .5" indexable mill cutter

« on: March 19, 2012, 11:15:42 PM »

Those look more expensive than a standard endmill!

I have a ihcnc mill (rf45) no toolchanger. I design my parts (aluminum) to work with one cutter when possible. I use the endmill for a lot of drilling operations when I can. It's been driving me crazy when I ding a corner of my standard carbide endmills.

I'm still learning and know this will continue to happen for awhile.

I also know that finish may suffer a bit going indexable.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: kennametal .5" indexable mill cutter

« on: March 19, 2012, 10:56:01 PM »

I couldn't find a center cutting one from them.

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General Mach Discussion / kennametal .5" indexable mill cutter

« on: March 19, 2012, 10:00:43 PM »

I don't know where to post this, so I'm trying here.

Looking for an indexable milling cutter.

My requirements are needs center cutting, and .5" size.

Anyone ever use one?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: changing units on dro from .000 to .0000

« on: March 08, 2012, 09:08:29 PM »

Ok, thanks. I'll have to tackle that with more experience.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: cycle start g01 z0.000 error

« on: March 08, 2012, 07:14:38 PM »

this is typically what my programs start off with, and it's never had a problem before.

G00 G49 G40.1 G17 G80 G50 G90 G64
G20
(.325 drill)
M6 T3
M03 S800
G01Z0.000
G00X-0.142Y-3.277
Z0.200
Z0.020
G01Z-0.050 F3
G00Z0.020
Z-0.030

A little bit more info... the same program wouldn't start spindle... some error came up couldn't find m3 module or something like that.

i restarted mach... spindle then worked.... but then I got the go1 z0.00 cycle start error.