Here is a short video link of chamfering operation
https://www.dropbox.com/s/p0ucupalz5tnpq1/MOV09713.MPG

Video of the first drill job done on this machine. This is basically compilation of different videos captured by Khalid and a few snapshots.

click on the link below to view video
http://goo.gl/UiYGU

Very nice!  That beats a scripe and a square and a manual drill press all day long.  That thing makes it look easy.

Brett

I had time to take some pictures during the annual turnaround of our plant. The pictures of 10mm CS plate on 2000mm x 1000mm for modification in turbine condenser. The holes diamter are 20mm and the slot length is 40mm. The Slot were done by drilling two holes and the remaining portions were taken away using plunge milling with 20mm carbide endmill.

Khalid,

Impressive work. I bet this was not possible on your horizontal boring mill without manual job shifting. Don't forget to check the servo motor load with the end mills.

What was the cycle time for this one.

Zafar

Okay..  Slot were not side milled. Slot length was 40mm so two 20mm drill at the end. The small area left between the drilled holes were vertically drilled using end mills. The same cycle of hydraulic lock and unlock for the carbide endmill with 2mm peck-drill tool path

All is okay... Drilling took 2 Hours (IMHO) and the slot machining took 3 Hours...

PS:
We also made sealing labyrinth gaskets for our gas turbine air seals. The gasket were milled out of 3mm thick Aluminum plate (1meter x 2meter). The job took 6hours using 8mm end mill. Normally on vertical lathe the job takes more than 24hours. Unfortunately we have no pictures to show.

Okay..  Slot were not side milled. Slot length was 40mm so two 20mm drill at the end. The small area left between the drilled holes were vertically drilled using end mills. The same cycle of hydraulic lock and unlock for the carbide endmill with 2mm peck-drill tool path

All is okay... Drilling took 2 Hours (IMHO) and the slot machining took 3 Hours...

PS:
We also made sealing labyrinth gaskets for our gas turbine air seals. The gasket were milled out of 3mm thick Aluminum plate (1meter x 2meter). The job took 6hours using 8mm end mill. Normally on vertical lathe the job takes more than 24hours. Unfortunately we have no pictures to show.

So you are doing light milling work on it too  . Must be running it with the drill head unlocked. You'll get slightly greater backlash that way because of the head getting skewed vertically without the brakes. But that results in only 0.4 mm at the end of drill. I hope that won't be noticeable for the tolerances on that job. A photo of that gasket would have been nice.

Give me a call when you are through with the plant turn-around.

Zafar

Material Aluminum
Thickness: 13mm
DOC: 1.5mm
Endmill: 6mm and 8mm (HSS)
Feed: 370mm/min
Flood coolant

Total machining time: 6Hrs

Material Aluminum
Thickness: 13mm
DOC: 1.5mm
Endmill: 6mm and 8mm (HSS)
Feed: 370mm/min
Flood coolant

Total machining time: 6Hrs

Now you won't insist on calling it a CNC "Radial Drill". It's a mill. 1600 max rpm is too low for cutters this small. On which machine did you machine these parts before you got your CNC. You don't even have a copy mill in-house.

yes we are limited in RPM i.e. spindle . I have machined the similar parts on wood
Thats indeed a sturdy machine. Now we need special bits for milling Aluminum.

Some more pictures