Thread milling on Okuma

[Dadger47]

Hi

I have a number of Okuma LU45M's and LU400M's and I was wondering if I could thread mill on the horizontal on these machines using the X and C axis. If anyone has tried this can you give me some code please. Any help much appreciated.

 

[Booze Daily]

Nevermind. Misunderstood the question.

 

[gipsy_chips]

hi do you still need help to deliver a thread with CX ?

 

[iMillJoe]

On an LB, not for an LU, but I did some today. See below.

N2
G0 X20 Z20M5
T0202

TPI=18 (THREADS PER INCH)
TDIA=.625 (THREAD OD)
CDIA=.453 (CUTTER DIA)
ZSTR=0. (Z STARTING POINT)
ZSTP=-.562 (Z STOPPING POINT)
HPTC=[1/TPI]/2 (HALF PITCH)

M110
SB=4500 M14
Z.2
X0
M8
G1 G94 Z=ZSTR F20 M16
G91 C180 X[TDIA-CDIA] Z=-HPTC F100
NTHR
C180 Z-HPTC
V3=VSIOZ-HPTC
IF[VSIOZ-HPTC GT ZSTP]NTHR
C180 X-[TDIA-CDIA] Z-HPTC
G90
G0X0
Z.5
G0 G95 X2 M12
X20 Z20 M9 M109
M01