AF-METALS-TECH
Aluminum
- Joined
- Jan 19, 2008
- Location
- Moody AFB GA
I stated a job on Tuesday cutting some stainless parts with carbide end mills and noticed the tool holders were not being set in the carousel properly, they were being held by the top portion of the flange not the v-groove. Not wanting to drop my cutters out of the counsel and break them I took the carousel out rotated the holding clamps from first several tool pockets for the last several and reinstalled the carousel, same problem. I was about to investigate how to set tool change height setting and then decided to see if it did the same thing on the opposite side of the carousel, the good and the bad came to light. The carousel plate was bent. I made a fixture held in a indexing head mounted on our Bridgeport series 2 using the quill with an aluminum mandrel to flex it back in place checking it with the DRO and height gage. After several hours of frustration I took it off the Bridgeport and set it on the layout table, it was strait but all I had accomplished was to reveal where the plate had originally stress fractured, 6" crack though two of the mounting holes. I did some research and found http://clarklakemachine.com/products.htm they make a replacement carousel disk out of billet instead of cast(poor design idea by HAAS) is any one currently using one of these? Does any one know how to adjust tool change position height? Thanks.