Mate bought an 8 ton OKK to get retrofitted.
I supervised the project and learnt Gcode along the way.
I write most of their programs. Nice having 7HP servo feed motors !
Eventually got a 15HP VFD on the spindle.
If the chips aren't blue wind up the feed !
Good experience working on a machine that can create vast amounts of swarf.
Now I do tiny stuff on my SX3 and LC20 15HP 5 ton lathe.
Nearly all hand coded. Plenty of parametric stuff.
If you can't fill a 200 lit. drum (with swarf) in a shift you need better tooling.
__________________
Super X3. 3600rpm. Three ways to fix things: The right way, the other way, and maybe your way, which is possibly a faster wrong way. |