Mike K
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Nov 30, 2002
- Location
- Southern Indiana
I have a small shop with 3 CNC mills and 3 CNC lathes. To satisfy customer QC requirements, I need to come up with a way of verifying the accuracy of all of them. One option is to hire that job out to a service that shows up with a technician and a ball bar. This seems like it could be expensive in the long run. Another option is to buy my own ball bar and do it in house. This is definately expensive up front - about $9,000 - but more flexible and perhaps cheaper in the end.
Does anyone know of a simple method of doing this that doesn't cost a lot? I can imagine using a gage with a calibrated contour that would be traced in the machine with a matching contour program and a tenths indicator. The program would stop periodically so the operator could read the deviation on the indicator and record it. It would probably have to be a different gage for lathes and mills, but it seams feasible. Or am I crazy?
Does anything simple like that exist?
Advice would be very appreciated!
Mike
Does anyone know of a simple method of doing this that doesn't cost a lot? I can imagine using a gage with a calibrated contour that would be traced in the machine with a matching contour program and a tenths indicator. The program would stop periodically so the operator could read the deviation on the indicator and record it. It would probably have to be a different gage for lathes and mills, but it seams feasible. Or am I crazy?
Does anything simple like that exist?
Advice would be very appreciated!
Mike