Quick (dumb) question for the Brother guys: is it common practice to mount and remove a 4th axis on a Speedio? I know most of these machines are set up for one part for life, and am wondering if there's some unknown quirk that would make this difficult or impractical as compared to other VMC's.
I have an S500 with two Orange vises always mounted. It looks like there would be table space to mount a T-200 on the left side of the table on some kind of single point fixture (Lang Quick-Point?), and it would clear the Orange bodies.
Is this a bad idea? The alternative is waiting till we need another mill and getting an S1000 so there's real estate for a 4th and two vises all the time. But we make our own products and machining is just one of many processes, and we don't need more available spindle time right now. A 4th would cut down on the number of ops for a few parts, and let us run more parts per cycle of other parts on a rotary vise.
I have an S500 with two Orange vises always mounted. It looks like there would be table space to mount a T-200 on the left side of the table on some kind of single point fixture (Lang Quick-Point?), and it would clear the Orange bodies.
Is this a bad idea? The alternative is waiting till we need another mill and getting an S1000 so there's real estate for a 4th and two vises all the time. But we make our own products and machining is just one of many processes, and we don't need more available spindle time right now. A 4th would cut down on the number of ops for a few parts, and let us run more parts per cycle of other parts on a rotary vise.