OKIEMACHINIST
Aluminum
- Joined
- Jan 24, 2006
- Location
- OKLAHOMA
We have a Mazak VTC 16B and have nothing but sure hell trying to rigid tap with it. I tried everything we knew. On our Haas they would tap beautiful and the Mazak it would bust the taps. I found that the Mazak's Spindles do not stop as quick and reverse quick enough and causes the taps to break. We finally found a few tricks to get better productivity out of our tapping on our Mazak.
1) slow the SFM down. do not go over 25 SFM
2) in the tool data change tool to rigid (it is usually set as default as floating)
3) Change the spindle retract rate to 50%-- this is alos located in the tool data page.
1) slow the SFM down. do not go over 25 SFM
2) in the tool data change tool to rigid (it is usually set as default as floating)
3) Change the spindle retract rate to 50%-- this is alos located in the tool data page.