Starturn at work video

davidimurray · Sun 28 Jan , 2007 12:18 pm

Inspired by Triac Whizz - here's my machine at work.

Not a particulalry exciting video but just a quick view of my starturn at work the other day. For anyone who says these machines are toys then that is 0.01" depth cuts at 17"/min

It has been as far as 0.01" depth cuts at 20"/min(500mm/min!) with HSS tooling. Just got some new tipped tooling (you can see it in the video) so this may go up yet!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h16qI3TUJAQ

Cheers

Dave

Triac whizz · Sun 28 Jan , 2007 13:36 pm

Spindle seems slow to me

while I was there I found this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG_A6gvOS24

now where can I put one of these

though I reckon the tool change is rather slow

Mon 29 Jan , 2007 0:37 am

That Mazak is scary !

I wouldn't want to be responsible for software testing on that thing

davidimurray · Mon 29 Jan , 2007 10:36 am

Yeah spindle is a touch slow - was being lazy and just threw that in after running another job.

The mazak would be a nice toy to play with

davidimurray · Tue 30 Jan , 2007 11:35 am

Hello

Repeated the same test last night in steel (with the spindle speed turned up

). 1" bar to 5/8" bar in just under 2 minutes. You can actually hear the spindle motor slow at the start of the cut then the closed loop control takes over and holds it steady. No video of that one though as I was running for cover - the guard stops the swarf in some directions but not out of the ends!!!

Cheers

Dave

Triac whizz · Tue 30 Jan , 2007 18:29 pm

1" bar to 5/8" bar in just under 2 minutes

seems even slower - how long? 4ft?

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