JHanko
Aluminum
- Joined
- Aug 13, 2010
- Location
- Joliet, IL
I have some parts with external threads that I have to manually clean up with sandpaper before parting off. What I do now is a manual G4 dwell process, sending the turret home, shut off coolant and run the spindle at 2000 rpm for 5 seconds. This 5 seconds gives me time to feed hold, so I can go in there and take as much time as I need on the threads. When I'm done, I hit cycle start and the 5 second dwell runs down and the program completes. This works fine if I'm there paying attention. If I'm doing something else at the time, I blow the opportunity to clean up the threads. Is there any way to dwell this manual process indefinitely, so it just sits there until I hit the cycle start again? Thanks!