wrustle
Titanium
- Joined
- Jun 8, 2006
- Location
- Massachusetts
Man o man some days you just wanna walk out the back door and say "screw this....I've had enough!" One thing after another this week,I swear! Running a 1500 pc job on my Ikegai lathe and every now and then the turret gets hung up on top of one of the curvic ring teeth and can't clamp. Ok...at first I thought it to be just a random thing.....happened maybe a couple times a day. Have to shut the machine down, power it up and index the turret to another station to get it all back in working condition. Not today.....every stinking fifteen minutes it's getting hung up. Mostly between tool two and three, but now in other spots as well. Losing my shirt now on the job because of all the down time, and have resorted to putting the machine on hold and placing a pipe between two of the turret stations and giving it a quick pull to seat the turret, then pressing cycle start to resume the cycle. Why is this doing this? It is a ram type lathe, if it helps in diagnosing. I really need to run this all weekend to get these parts out and the interruptions are killing me! Any one have any ideas of what to do to remedy this? Why do these things always happen right before a long holiday weekend? Thanking you all in advance.
Best Regards,
Russ
Best Regards,
Russ