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    NGC Bugs

    I'm glad I'm not the only one. I had heard complaining about the NGC before, but nothing specific (outside of that peck drilling bug) Turns out the reason there isn't anything specific is because these weird bugs seem to lack any sort of consistency amongst any machines. Its almost as if...
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    NGC Bugs

    After having run a 2005 Haas Minimill for several years, and now having run a brand new VF-4SS with the NGC, I have noticed some things... The NGC is laggy. Button presses take a significantly longer amount of time. Perhaps this sounds like a pathetic complaint, but if you've run a CNC for...
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    HRT210 Vs HRT210SS

    The wear is an unknown. The sales rep hasn't sold any of them yet, and doesn't know any in the area. I agree, the higher brake holding torque is something that caught my eye. Being new to 4th axis work, I have no good grasp on how much torque is needed for a given op, so your numbers helped a...
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    HRT210 Vs HRT210SS

    I'm going to be purchasing a new VF-4SS, and I am planning on getting a 4th rotary with it. However, I'm having difficulty choosing between the HRT210 and the HRT210SS (successor to the HRC210, or so I'm told). Who out there is running either of these, and what are your opinions? My concerns...
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    Lubrication System Questions on a '98 Daewoo Puma 250B

    Hi Bill, Thanks again for your continued help! I've come across countless other threads over the years that you have posted in which have helped me with this machine. For the oiling issue at hand.... In the manual it states 15 seconds on, and 10 minutes off. I was able to find the settings...
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    Help Understanding Turret Alignment

    Well, at the risk of some embarrassment, that is precisely what I was doing. Now that you say that, I assume it's a bad setup due to gravity acting on the arm, correct? Those videos by Wes are great. I have watched them a number of times already, and still picking up more each time.
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    Help Understanding Turret Alignment

    I've been pondering this further with a beer in hand, and I'm wondering if the turret is actually eccentric, but still aligned radially. I'll need to take an X reading at every tool index against the ID tool holder block mounting face. If that measurement varies across all tool indexes with...
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    Lubrication System Questions on a '98 Daewoo Puma 250B

    Awesome, thanks for explaining all of that. I've noticed that it is coming from somewhere on the cross slide, as there is a ton of oil dripping down from it after the pump runs, so that narrows it down to that one distribution block. I'll investigate further tomorrow, and probably order a new...
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    Help Understanding Turret Alignment

    Yup, it's a slant bed, and mounted on the slant.
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    Lubrication System Questions on a '98 Daewoo Puma 250B

    So I assume the pistons are on the sort of manifold-looking blocks on the machine, and not at the connections directly on the guides or ballscrews? And so I understand, what action normally causes them to close up? Fluid amount, pressure, or something else? Thanks for your help, I really...
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    Help Understanding Turret Alignment

    Actual, as TIR was right around .020 (my hole finding technique with a dial indicator could use work though, I got too used to 3D tasters on my mill). The tit on facing ops just barely went away with .008 of brass shim stock. It was still present with .006 of shimming. I thought it was a lot...
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    Help Understanding Turret Alignment

    I'm actually having to shim them, I misspoke. Relative to the tool, they are cutting below center (just above center as an operator looks at it). Shimming isn't a problem of course, but I'd prefer to not have to if at all possible. The ID holders I checked seemed to be nearly the same, but...
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    Help Understanding Turret Alignment

    Hey everyone, I'm working on dialing in a very well used Daewoo Puma 250 from 1998. I got the turret face perpendicular to the Z axis within spec, and test cuts on bar stock over 8 inches show a total taper of .0008. The taper will have to be good enough, because there is no way I can get a...
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    Lubrication System Questions on a '98 Daewoo Puma 250B

    Hey all, I just acquired a 1998 Daewoo Puma 250B which has its fair share of issues to address due to its age. I just noticed that it is going through a ton of way lube. It nearly emptied the 0.4L tank in 2 days, say 20 hours of powered on time. It's been idling for much of that as well. I...
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    Block Processing Speed On Older Controls? 2005 MiniMill

    Hey folks, Thanks for the replies. It seems I was under the impression that some level of lookahead was always on the machine, regardless of HSM being enabled or not (I thought I recall HSM enabling lookahead to 80 blocks, from 40). This of course is a secondhand machine I've had for a...
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    Block Processing Speed On Older Controls? 2005 MiniMill

    So I've been trying to do some single point forming work on some 3d prototypes. This of course means that since I'm not removing material, I should be able to run higher feeds rates without worrying about tool breakage :p However, my 2005 Haas Mini Mill seems to start stuttering at around 10...
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    Peculiar Spindle Runout Issue - Can't Find Cause

    I've been trying to diagnose a runout issue I've been having with my spindle. It's a Haas 2005 Mini Mill. I purchased it a year ago, and I purchased my tool holders brand new. The spindle bearings themselves seem to be great. No noise, and no runout at all when I sweep the outside of the...
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    Trim 690XT Smell

    I switched to 690XT a little over a month ago. I noticed an extremely strong odor when I first mixed it and filled the tank, but after a few days it went away (or I got used to it). Those first hours made me wonder if it was getting me high it was so strong. I'm running around 6.5% Brix. But...
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    Xometry-Who is doing it?

    I don't even get the time to reject jobs. I literally haven't seen a single job on the board. Just the email notifications for 2 to 3 jobs per day, and those are gone by the time I open the email. I feel like they drip feed a small number of jobs to a huge group of 'new' partners, and let them...
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    Xometry-Who is doing it?

    My experience thus far..... How in the world do people get these jobs so fast? I saw an email for a job posting, clicked on it 3 minutes after I received the email, and the job was gone. How are people supposed to get jobs? I'm not going to sit on my email all day hoping to click faster than...

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