KatherineNies12
Plastic
- Joined
- Jul 27, 2018
I am starting to think about adding another mill to the shop (getting spindle time bottlenecks) and a friend suggested that I keep my mind open to used horizontal machines. I know that having gravity help with chip control would be wonderful, and a tombstone with 2 or 4 usable sides could help with some common setups, but.... these things just seem very complicated and a little out of my comfort zone right now. Anyone running horizontals in a job type shop and think it is just the best thing in the world? A long job run for me is 50 parts with 5 hours of work on them, most runs are a couple of hundred 15 minute parts and I spend more time between prep/setup/post work than I actually have them in the machines. I am presently running a pair of 40x20 Okumas and bringing a Sharp 2412 back online to use for 2nd ops (no auger so chip mgmt. is a pain).
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