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I took an old long BT-40 coolant through stud, clamped it in a pipe vise, and beat on it with a 2 pound ball peen hammer for several minutes. It marred but did not break or bend. I dismounted one...

Frank - I looked at the pull stud page on your website again this morning and nowhere did it say that you need to use your high strength studs with a face mill holder, not even on the BT-30 face mill...

The part was still in the fixture but one side (the side with the carbide insert and seat stuck in it) appeared to have been pried up by the crash. The tool was still partially in the spindle when...

I am not trying to bash Maritool, I have used their stuff for years and have been happy with it, but I am sharing my experience about a pull stud failure. This pull stud suffered a very quick...

When I called Maritool before ordering about $1500 worth of ER-20 and ER-32 holders, pulls studs and a face mill holder I asked the person about what studs were needed and was told that the standard...

I would be very surprised if this tool on this Brother machine had seen more than 2000 cycles. We primarily use the Brother for a family of parts that get 3rd op side holes in them. These parts...

That is the only stud that has marks like that and they probably came from being flung around inside the retainer. The other ones that we got from Maritool and Yamazen all look virtually new.

This was the third batch of about 400 of these parts that had run on this machine and we had run about 10 pieces in this run when this happened. Part was still in the fixture but pried up a little...

That is not a "it wore out break", this is a bad heat or material break. We do somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 tool changes a day across all the machines and have done so for at least 10 years...

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There is no deformation at the break, just a clean snap.

We had a major crash on our fairly new (under a year old) Brother S500X1. The machine was doing a light facing operation with a Mitsubishi 2" 45 degree ASX 4 flute face mill - 10,000 rpm, .025 DOC,...

Whenever a buyer does some crap like this I usually respond that we will re-look at the quote that we provided and see if there is anything that we can do to make it better. I then wait a day or so...

I would call Hartwig support. They have been very good at getting me to the right person for questions like that.

We use cell phones for setup pictures too. It would be better to document it in a parts file but I would much rather have a cell phone picture of what we did last time when we have a rush setup...

We have stools for everyone and an old roll around office chair for our 72 year old guy. Most of the time they are not used but they are there when needed. More often than not people use them as a...

We ran some parts that were flame cut "A36". Some cut like butter and other pieces cut like crap. Ended up running a high speed roughing pass using a Mitsubishi "feed mill" that used the little...

We used to make a lot of Delrin cable junctions that involved drilling a 3/4" hole 7" into the part and then doing a finish boring operation. Peck drilled and used the coolant to blow the chips out...

A friend of mine who sells machine tools and is fairly well plugged in said that second quarter 2019 machine tool sales in the southwest were down about 40% from second quarter 2018 and would have...

I love my Okumas but an Okuma control that old is going to be VERY expensive to maintain if you are not an electronics wizard and have a deep understanding on repairing it yourself. I was very happy...

We used to cut a lot of A514 and AR500 1" to 2" plate (oil field "bit breakers") and had the best luck with MA Ford 5 flute in TG-100 holders. Parts came in water jet roughed out and we did did...

Holy crap - that was a long time ago. Ran those parts off and on for almost 8 years and they were good to me. The last of the old Okuma Cadets left last year and was replaced by a little Brother...

Had a Cobra 65 with the 21T control. Loved the iron but hated the control. They were meant to be true production machines and most of the features in the control are accessed with soft keys so...

Looking for a decent auto feed bandsaw in the 8" to 12" capacity range. Our Behringer is getting tired and would like to have a backup in case something happens to it. Please send me a PM.

I switched to 250 at the end of last year and so far I am not impressed. The machines stay cleaner on the inside but tool life is down and a couple of machines have started stinking if left alone...

Before you tear into the release cylinder just to see IF the tool will move in the taper. At the very most a 40 taper will put 2K pounds of retention force into the tool and it is easy to get that...