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Not sure why I would need one. Let alone use it. Now wood working another story. I blow crazy money on tools.
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I think manual machines would suit me better. Since I have no intention of doing production work.
But besides that, I simply don't have the room. I plan on changing that in a few years, after I retire. |
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Help me out here. Where can I find one?
I need a CNC lathe, but don't think I can swing anything but an older used machine, and I don't want to get stuck with a clapped out piece of shit that'll spend more time down than making chips. Also, I need to be able to run it on normal house power, I don't have 3 phase here. I've got an old Bridgeport with a homebrew CNC conversion, but it's janky, uncooperative, and I've spent more time building/fixing it than making parts. Currently rebuilding/rewiring. In hindsight, buying a working CNC machine would have made more sense. |
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Quoted: CNC is my job. I can do government work when I need to. Other than that, I have a 3D printer. Kinda interested in a laser engraver/cutter, but not sure I can justify it. View Quote LOL! In a former life, I did 5 years as a self-taught half-fast machinist in a repair shop. There were a few of us; sheet metal, welder, machinist, that were the "go-to guys" when someone needed a part for their snowmobile, tree stand, etc. Standard "payment" was a quarter for cup of vending machine coffee. |
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Quoted: Not sure why I would need one. Let alone use it. Now wood working another story. I blow crazy money on tools. View Quote CNC routers are a thing, and can crank out some pretty nice stuff that are pretty difficult to produce by other methods... and some stuff that's not too hard by hand, but either tedious or would benefit from the accuracy and repeatability CNC brings to the party. |
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Quoted: At my LGS yesterday I was permitted to handle a .45 monocore suppressor and take it apart. The tube threaded off of the core. Is there a measuring device and program where I could place the separate components into, that would feel the parts and write the cad program based directly off of the feel? Because that would be fuckin' sweet. View Quote Even with a perfect 3D model CAM software isn't always capable of spitting out machine code that doesn't require some human intervention because of this. The exception being where the CAM software was set up specifically to meet the variables controlled by the operation. That takes a lot of investment. |
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I don't need a CNC. What I need is a friend with a CNC who wouldn't mind doing me a favor every few years or so.
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Space and power requirements.
Plus all of my machining needs are done here at work. |
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the same excuse as not owning a front loader and a dump truck...I don't really need them, I just want them. For the imes it would really be used it is easier and frankly smarter to rent or hire out for the use. The same would be for a CNC unless you have access to free or cheap raw materials to create with it. Let us know when it breaks down or needs a software upgrade unless you bought a Mechanical one like an old Bridgeport.
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Quoted: Was Brian H your salesman for that lathe? Very nice setup. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I have a few. https://i.imgur.com/t79gwNq.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Bzr2xPJ.jpg The most recent addition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-1QA0zNnZ4 Was Brian H your salesman for that lathe? Very nice setup. @jm0502 Thanks. Not sure if it was Brian. Our Eurotech dealer is Alta Enterprises out of PA. The B438 sat for almost 6 months in FL while we waited on the power company for a service upgrade. Went from a 50kva transformer on the pole to our own 350kva box on the ground and a new MDP. |
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I'm sort of reminded of my own profession (network engineering).
At home, there's a point at which you're just flexing, because you can. Not because you should. |
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I can just make the drawing and upload it to any number of machine shops with a web portal. Why would I want to own a machine I'd rarely use when I can just contract that out??
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Because I’d have to choose between a CNC machine or a Premay sample mg34…?
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Quoted: what kind of stuff do you do for tolerances like that? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I had to take 3 semesters of Machine Operations in college, I hated it. To me a quarter inch is close enough, not this .001 inch shit. Laughs in +/- .00005 what kind of stuff do you do for tolerances like that? Bongs... |
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Quoted: https://i.imgur.com/u1PVYll.jpg https://i.imgur.com/fa556jv.jpg https://i.imgur.com/26nhZae.jpg https://i.imgur.com/23zflUm.jpg https://i.imgur.com/wc1bXTI.jpg View Quote What's the material? Vf-? |
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Quoted: If you’re doing a lot of custom work, manual machines are the way to go. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to have a CNC mill at home, but manual is just more versatile for oddball stuff. View Quote I run my CNCs like manual machines all the time for quick modifications and such. They have handweels, ya know... Seriously, though, putting a VMC in my garage opened me up to a whole new career path and now I'm a business owner. SO DON'T DO IT OR YOU WILL QUICKLY BE ONE OF THE POORS AND HAVE NO MORE MONEY FOR GUNS AND RACECARS!!!!!!! |
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need, specialization, space, time, and to a lesser extent cost. ive also never bought the stuff or learned the skills to replace a neurosurgeon, for the exact same reasons. if i need one someone else will be better equipped and trained than me. my time is better spent earning the money to deal with what does happen, compared to trying to cover every single situation i can possibly think up by myself.
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The best excuse I can come up with for not owning a CNC is called retirement, I'm looking forward to the day. Been running and programming CNC's/NC's for north of 40 years, owned a shop full of them for over 25 of those, I'm ready to do something different. I'll probably have something in my home shop at some point though.
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9 a 50?
I've heard good things about the bigger machines with the 50. |
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Quoted: Yes, Its been pretty good. Just put a new spindle in it, It is of no fault of Haas. I have never fucked up a program as bad as I did to cause this. View Quote That sucks. I've worked a few to death. But I haven't brinelled one (yet, furiously knocking wood) I have a few ceramic bearing spindles, the pucker factor is higher on those. The nice thing about Haas is they aren't crazy expensive to change. |
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Overrated. Especially when one of your guys wrecks it. Literally just came in from realigning the headstock and turret on my old Puma 300LC.
4th time I think |
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Quoted: That sucks. I've worked a few to death. But I haven't brinelled one (yet, furiously knocking wood) I have a few ceramic bearing spindles, the pucker factor is higher on those. The nice thing about Haas is they aren't crazy expensive to change. View Quote $15,000 for this spindle. not as bad as some. Started life as this Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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I don’t have space. We are putting our place on the market so I will eventually have space and get something on the order of a small Mazak Quick-Turn lathe and a small vertical mill. A 5 -axis Mitsui-Seiki jig bore would be sweet as well.
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Quoted: $15,000 for this spindle. not as bad as some. Started life as this https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/213600/s-l400_jpg-2323920.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/213600/20220323_200327_jpg-2323916.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/213600/20220323_200332_jpg-2323917.JPG View Quote What the blue f@ck caused it to build up metal on it like that? Cat 50? |
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Quoted: $15,000 for this spindle. not as bad as some. Started life as this https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/213600/s-l400_jpg-2323920.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/213600/20220323_200327_jpg-2323916.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/213600/20220323_200332_jpg-2323917.JPG View Quote Anything can be a friction stir welder once, eh? |
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Quoted: $15,000 for this spindle. not as bad as some. Started life as this https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/213600/s-l400_jpg-2323920.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/213600/20220323_200327_jpg-2323916.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/213600/20220323_200332_jpg-2323917.JPG View Quote Yeah man, you got all of that one. Gear box spindle I assume? You used all the torques. Didn't even bang up the drive keys. I'm impressed. You walk away from it or something? Looks like it chewed for a minute. I'm really sorry, anyone that runs them long enough will fuck up and yard sale one eventually. It's a sick feeling when it happens. I fat fingered a decimal changing a work offset on a 30 horse box way lathe, smoked the turret into a running 10 inch 3 jaw at rapid. 17k lbs of it literally jumped. Didn't kill the spindle but knocked the turret out to hell and back. I learned how to re-align a lathe that week. 15k sucks but okuma spindles start at 30...so it could have been worse. Knock it out of tram? |
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Quoted: HOLY SWEET MOTHER OF FUCK! Yeah man, you got all of that one. Gear box spindle I assume? You used all the torques. Didn't even bang up the drive keys. I'm impressed. You walk away from it or something? Looks like it chewed for a minute. I'm really sorry, anyone that runs them long enough will fuck up and yard sale one eventually. I fat fingered a decimal changing a work offset on a 30 horse box way lathe, smoked the turret into a running 10 inch 3 jaw at rapid. 17k lbs of it literally jumped. Didn't kill the spindle but knocked the turret out to hell and back. I learned how to re-align a lathe that week. 15k sucks but okuma spindles start at 30...so it could have been worse. Knock it out of tram? View Quote Yeah gearbox spindle, couldnt tell by the load meter what it got up to since it can peg 150% on startup I was cutting a 15 inch diameter, 10.5 inch thick bolster made from H13, I was finishing the inside profile, 5.35 deep with a 1 inch dijet RME. Ramping .015 just for the hell of it since I was going home for dinner and figured I'd get some easy run time done. Some how I programmed it to go 10.35 deep. It never overloaded the spindle, finally stopped with a z axis overload. And what I couldn't believe is where it finally stopped, it was not welded to the bolster. The spindle lifted right off it. It only took .010 to clean the face of the bolster up and opened the profile by .020 couldn't even tell anything happened. |
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Why when I can drive 10 minutes down the road to a shop that has 20 or so CNC machines, 8 or 10 plasma tables , some laser tables ( I think that's what they are called ) and all kinds of other cool shit I have no idea how any of it works .
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Quoted: Yeah gearbox spindle, couldnt tell by the load meter what it got up to since it can peg 150% on startup I was cutting a 15 inch diameter, 10.5 inch thick bolster made from H13, I was finishing the inside profile, 5.35 deep with a 1 inch dijet RME. Ramping .015 just for the hell of it since I was going home for dinner and figured I'd get some easy run time done. Some how I programmed it to go 10.35 deep. It never overloaded the spindle, finally stopped with a z axis overload. And what I couldn't believe is where it finally stopped, it was not welded to the bolster. The spindle lifted right off it. It only took .010 to clean the face of the bolster up and opened the profile by .020 couldn't even tell anything happened. View Quote Yeah it's always some tiny detail, decimal point, one digit, wrong work shift or tool length call out. Add in 1500 ipm rapids and boom. |
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Quoted: $15,000 for this spindle. not as bad as some. Started life as this https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/213600/s-l400_jpg-2323920.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/213600/20220323_200327_jpg-2323916.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/213600/20220323_200332_jpg-2323917.JPG View Quote That is super impressive |
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Quoted: Nobody needs a $900 cnc when we can get a dremmel and a harbor freight gasless mig for $300 OTD View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: 9k is like 900 four years ago. Nobody needs a $900 cnc when we can get a dremmel and a harbor freight gasless mig for $300 OTD Knowledge of how to to it both ways is priceless. |
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