coffeetek
Aluminum
- Joined
- Feb 14, 2018
- Location
- Redmond, WA
Yeah, Speedio arrived to riggers and we got snowed in. Great!
But Checkmate guys would not be deterred so before next wave of snow hit we sneaked machine into the garage:
My garage door is 83" tall so Andy from Yamazen arranged to have my machine prepped to 80" and it went in without any issues. This was one of my main limitations on machine choice, I just did not have clearance to get machine in. Space wise I wish I had space for S700, but...
About week, week and half later due to all the snow Oscar showed up to perform install.
Renishaw probe got setup:
For this machine to work well for me I had to use the table well and have high density setup with lot of large-ish parts done at the same time. So first order of business was sub-plate. 7.1" distance from spindle nose to table is a lot so some long tooling was required:
That is a 1.25" cut, 6" long, 1" shank Shear Hog. I use that for roughing all the time. No, no, don't get wrong idea, it was used just to face cut the subplate while bolted on the table. I got it flat to 2 microns over 400mm distance so I called it a day.
So pattern to mount vises was simple, two M12 bolts 150mm spacing with KIPP alignment pins (I wanted this pattern so I can mount my Chick vises on same plate as well):
On my Haas Mini Mill I use two 5th Axis Deuce DV510 vises and also Chick 1030s. They go onto the Lang 96mm plate. I really like the Lang plates for how easy it is to just change between setups, but for Speedio I wanted both sturdier vise and something that has less jaw lift than Deuce (jaw lifts 0.36mm on almost full clamp pressure).
I prefer simple sturdy design and have been looking and studying to what to put on table for months. Decided on 3 Mlock_125 400 dual station vises. I liked design a lot, simple, not much to go wrong and when it does its easily replaced. Alex who makes these worked with me to get everything right. I can highly recommend him and his vises.
Here are vise bases mounted:
Damn these are heavy. Bases are German Bohler M200 surface hardened steel. Jaws are D2 hardened. I am getting really high density on table with these, the jaws also have gripper teeth and they clamp on 3mm of material ~1/8".
First time I saw BT30 holders I was bit concerned on how rigid they will be given the size difference between them in CAT40, but rigid workholding with these vises and Speedio build really surprised me. I am removing more material faster on Speedio than on Mini Mill and cuts sound much better. And that is without really pushing Speedio. Surface finish is also better.
I am using same tools, 1/2" rougher from Destiny or Helical and Schunk Hydraulic holders. BTW, love the Schunk holders, to me they just sound the best when cutting and that's now both on CAT40 and BT30. Cyclet time is almost half of what I was running on Mini Mill.
While doing my research on this machine lot of people here running them in garages or small shops brought up the constant air usage and it was a concern for me so I asked Andy from Yamazen for a solution and they came through. Solenoid was installed so now machine is only using air when its cutting. This works great!
But Checkmate guys would not be deterred so before next wave of snow hit we sneaked machine into the garage:
My garage door is 83" tall so Andy from Yamazen arranged to have my machine prepped to 80" and it went in without any issues. This was one of my main limitations on machine choice, I just did not have clearance to get machine in. Space wise I wish I had space for S700, but...
About week, week and half later due to all the snow Oscar showed up to perform install.
Renishaw probe got setup:
For this machine to work well for me I had to use the table well and have high density setup with lot of large-ish parts done at the same time. So first order of business was sub-plate. 7.1" distance from spindle nose to table is a lot so some long tooling was required:
That is a 1.25" cut, 6" long, 1" shank Shear Hog. I use that for roughing all the time. No, no, don't get wrong idea, it was used just to face cut the subplate while bolted on the table. I got it flat to 2 microns over 400mm distance so I called it a day.
So pattern to mount vises was simple, two M12 bolts 150mm spacing with KIPP alignment pins (I wanted this pattern so I can mount my Chick vises on same plate as well):
On my Haas Mini Mill I use two 5th Axis Deuce DV510 vises and also Chick 1030s. They go onto the Lang 96mm plate. I really like the Lang plates for how easy it is to just change between setups, but for Speedio I wanted both sturdier vise and something that has less jaw lift than Deuce (jaw lifts 0.36mm on almost full clamp pressure).
I prefer simple sturdy design and have been looking and studying to what to put on table for months. Decided on 3 Mlock_125 400 dual station vises. I liked design a lot, simple, not much to go wrong and when it does its easily replaced. Alex who makes these worked with me to get everything right. I can highly recommend him and his vises.
Here are vise bases mounted:
Damn these are heavy. Bases are German Bohler M200 surface hardened steel. Jaws are D2 hardened. I am getting really high density on table with these, the jaws also have gripper teeth and they clamp on 3mm of material ~1/8".
First time I saw BT30 holders I was bit concerned on how rigid they will be given the size difference between them in CAT40, but rigid workholding with these vises and Speedio build really surprised me. I am removing more material faster on Speedio than on Mini Mill and cuts sound much better. And that is without really pushing Speedio. Surface finish is also better.
I am using same tools, 1/2" rougher from Destiny or Helical and Schunk Hydraulic holders. BTW, love the Schunk holders, to me they just sound the best when cutting and that's now both on CAT40 and BT30. Cyclet time is almost half of what I was running on Mini Mill.
While doing my research on this machine lot of people here running them in garages or small shops brought up the constant air usage and it was a concern for me so I asked Andy from Yamazen for a solution and they came through. Solenoid was installed so now machine is only using air when its cutting. This works great!