Hi All,
I am trying to find out if it is possible to use the TL2 lathe as a decent manual. I ask, as today all I wanted to do was to quickly bore a part. I essentially wanted to stick the boring bar in, touch the face of the job and zero the Z axis on the screen (like a DRO) then feed. Just like I could on a traditional lathe by just pulling the feed lever, can I do the same on the TL2. It was a quicky that I didn't want to be spending time setting up tools and datums and writing a 'quick' program etc. If we had a decent manual I would have thrown it on there and done it in half the time it eventually took me on the TL2.
I seem to remember from using a TL1 a few years ago that you could just position the tool and then somehow tell it just to feed in Z 'x' length, I'm maybe thinking of some other machine I have used but it is all a bit blurry.
Reading the Addendum in the Haas Lathe manual it mentions the screen with the tabs on it that I remember from my previous experience on the TL1 but I am not sure how to get this up on my TL2.
I may end up requesting a decent manual lathe to compliment our existing machines to allow me to do jobs like this more quickly.
Thanks
I am trying to find out if it is possible to use the TL2 lathe as a decent manual. I ask, as today all I wanted to do was to quickly bore a part. I essentially wanted to stick the boring bar in, touch the face of the job and zero the Z axis on the screen (like a DRO) then feed. Just like I could on a traditional lathe by just pulling the feed lever, can I do the same on the TL2. It was a quicky that I didn't want to be spending time setting up tools and datums and writing a 'quick' program etc. If we had a decent manual I would have thrown it on there and done it in half the time it eventually took me on the TL2.
I seem to remember from using a TL1 a few years ago that you could just position the tool and then somehow tell it just to feed in Z 'x' length, I'm maybe thinking of some other machine I have used but it is all a bit blurry.
Reading the Addendum in the Haas Lathe manual it mentions the screen with the tabs on it that I remember from my previous experience on the TL1 but I am not sure how to get this up on my TL2.
I may end up requesting a decent manual lathe to compliment our existing machines to allow me to do jobs like this more quickly.
Thanks