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    Single Pointing Metric Acme Thread

    Sure it maybe convinient from the manufacturers point but this kind of standard mixing makes me furious. For example we have a vertical lathe with nearly half of the bearings listed just as non-standard. Not even approx dimensions are given in the sheet, so we'll have to dismantle the whole...
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    Turning a threaded part around and threaded into the next toolholder

    I'm not a native english speaker so this might be a dumb question, but in which direction does the runout happen?
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    Cheap CAD Recommendations

    FreeCAD has a steep learning curve in my opinion but has way more functions but if you only need it once in a while you should check out Solvespace, it's crossplatform free and still does alot. SolveSpace - parametric 3d CAD
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    Kennametal km63 holders for mazak?

    Maybe email your Kennametal rep? They should know.
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    Mori-Seki Won't Rapid! Program or Machine?

    We had rapid traverse mysteriously halved on an old Fanuc 0T lathe and it turned out to be caused by faulty traverse override dial. I'm pretty sure that's not what your having issues with but have you tried any other feed override, 90-120%?
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    phone apps for machining needs

    Only app I use is Camcut, it has alot of useful stuff in it including threads, ISO tolerances and different calculators.
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    Starting mid-program crash

    As mTeryk said it may be that when you skip over workpiece zero (N5465 G54), the control might use wrong zeropoint. You can check if this is the problem by adding another G54 over the line where you want to skip and skip to that line instead. Edit: Or note where the tool is, skip to another line...
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