well, all the holes are done! the feed rate matched the tap head perfect.

thanks again for the leg up on sub routines.

jh

Not just a pretty face, sorry about the picture couldn't thing of owt else to put up there 

Nice you are getting real work done! You have to love it when you can just sit back and see the holes get taped I was doing 4-40 holes at 1500 RPM at work, Taping is WAY faster than drilling the holes if it is done with the right tap.

That's for sure.

The material was 1.5"  thick cast aluminum tooling plate. That stuff is soo gummy.  I had to use a deep hole cycle with a .1" peck! tapping took two hours, the drilling took almost 7 hous!

Now that the tooling bed is done and bolted to the mill table I'm on to tackling my first "real job" 50 fuelcaps for my business.

www.eti-fuelcel.com

This time it's 6061-t6 and carbide tools. I might be back soon with some new chalenges I expect. What everyone would qoute as a turning job with heavy second opp's on a mill, I'm doing everything on the mill less two operations.


jh

Hi all,
out of curiosity ,instead of G4 ,shouldn't there be a G0 Z(+.2 or such) then G1 feedrate x2 ?
Bear

Very old posting, have a look at the latest one.

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=1551.0

Graham.

I  apologise,
unreservedly ,  with great regret, with much sugaring and sorrow.
as I read as the second post today.
 this insubordination ,   Will Not Happen Again   !
BEAR