Might as well try to squeeze it all in this one...
Are you guys mostly running right or left hand tooling for your turning/threading and such? or both and, why?(no sub, just 1 spindle)
It's looking to me like using all right hand tooling, M03, to throw the chips down should be fine? its a roller way machine, 1" stick tools. No messing around with reversing to drill either eh?
What should I be looking for regarding holding small drills/spot drills/taps, a few straight shank + sleeves to hold ER 16 and ER 32 to get going since I already got tons of those collets?
I noticed some gang blocks use 2-3 tools on one position so that'll be on the list asap.
Should I expect to need one of them floating tap holders or do lathes usually rigid tap pretty good? I've had no issues on the mill yet, but I'm thinking a lathe is a lot more picky about alignment.
U-drills. I'm leaning toward sandvik Coroldrill 880's since I got a good rep, I gotta push a 23-24mm size about 4" deep in duplex, then another one about 17mm that takes it to 6.5" deep. Anything else to look at that is cost effective or perhaps better?
Probably gonna make my own bar puller, the designs I'm looking at look beyond simple for the ridiculous amount of $ they want.
Should have the 65mm collet chuck sorted early next week waiting on pricing(damn the dollar exchange sure sucks right now...), and some extra soft jaws, maybe a case of underwear too, the camo colored ones...
Gotta look into a mist extractor for it too, is Mistaway with the after filter the best? price seems alright.
Carbide bars... gonna need a bunch more of those too, does anyone make shorter shank stubby ones that don't need to be cut off to fit in a Turret? almost leaning toward tuned bars now so that it just stays in its tool block and always at the same length? I never tried a tuned bar, well, not a good one anyway...
anything else I'm forgetting?
thanks.
Are you guys mostly running right or left hand tooling for your turning/threading and such? or both and, why?(no sub, just 1 spindle)
It's looking to me like using all right hand tooling, M03, to throw the chips down should be fine? its a roller way machine, 1" stick tools. No messing around with reversing to drill either eh?
What should I be looking for regarding holding small drills/spot drills/taps, a few straight shank + sleeves to hold ER 16 and ER 32 to get going since I already got tons of those collets?
I noticed some gang blocks use 2-3 tools on one position so that'll be on the list asap.
Should I expect to need one of them floating tap holders or do lathes usually rigid tap pretty good? I've had no issues on the mill yet, but I'm thinking a lathe is a lot more picky about alignment.
U-drills. I'm leaning toward sandvik Coroldrill 880's since I got a good rep, I gotta push a 23-24mm size about 4" deep in duplex, then another one about 17mm that takes it to 6.5" deep. Anything else to look at that is cost effective or perhaps better?
Probably gonna make my own bar puller, the designs I'm looking at look beyond simple for the ridiculous amount of $ they want.
Should have the 65mm collet chuck sorted early next week waiting on pricing(damn the dollar exchange sure sucks right now...), and some extra soft jaws, maybe a case of underwear too, the camo colored ones...
Gotta look into a mist extractor for it too, is Mistaway with the after filter the best? price seems alright.
Carbide bars... gonna need a bunch more of those too, does anyone make shorter shank stubby ones that don't need to be cut off to fit in a Turret? almost leaning toward tuned bars now so that it just stays in its tool block and always at the same length? I never tried a tuned bar, well, not a good one anyway...
anything else I'm forgetting?
thanks.