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Included angle of drywall screw head?

Dayum.... google has not been my friend.... nor Bing.... I found the included angle of bugle head drywall (60-63 deg, f...
8 comments posted 14yrs
posted by fitcat
8 comments posted 14yrs posted by fitcat

Roughing and finishing single endmill

Hi All, Anyone have any actual information using these things? Seems too good to be true, although the catalog says tha...
0 comments posted 14yrs
posted by davenpete
0 comments posted 14yrs posted by davenpete

Victor/Royal Lathe Oil Question

I have some questions about the lathe I use at work. It is a Victor/ Royal 1640, and the operating manual is written in...
4 comments posted 14yrs
posted by designitmachineit
4 comments posted 14yrs posted by designitmachineit

Okuma Conversational Control

We're shopping around for a CNC lathe and after looking at quite a few different brands seem to be leaning towards Okum...
6 comments posted 14yrs
posted by bd
6 comments posted 14yrs posted by bd

Getting out of jail....

Dental Floss and Ajax..... no foolin..... ID channel. LOL!!!! Should hire these guys as machinists, eh?? Tool'n'Die make...
5 comments posted 14yrs
posted by fitcat
5 comments posted 14yrs posted by fitcat

HAAS question

Does anybody know if a canned cycle can be run on a HAAS without the spindle rotating? We are wanting to run a G85 cycle...
8 comments posted 14yrs
posted by nospam
8 comments posted 14yrs posted by nospam

strange emco 325 issue

am having a strange error with my Emco 325 with a Fanuc 0-T control When I run a program we get a 1024 and 1029 alarm....
1 comments posted 14yrs
posted by raskinscott
1 comments posted 14yrs posted by raskinscott

Lathe "appears" to be fixed

I kept getting turret index errors when the lathe would warm up. I was looking at the hydraulic schematics to see if th...
7 comments posted 15yrs
posted by rbraun333
7 comments posted 15yrs posted by rbraun333

RE: Serial port doesn't work??

Here I am again, trying to communicate with a Fanuc M15. I've got my com program set to 4800,7,E,2, xon/xof and can't g...
1 comments posted 15yrs
posted by rwwink
1 comments posted 15yrs posted by rwwink

Way covers need wipers.....

Awl -- Between the telescoping covers being perty banged up in places, and the wipers having deteriorated on their own,...
5 comments posted 15yrs
posted by fitcat
5 comments posted 15yrs posted by fitcat

Lathe chuck pressure question.

Am I correct that if you decrease the holding pressure on the chuck it will stay at the higher pressure until you unclam...
3 comments posted 15yrs
posted by rbraun333
3 comments posted 15yrs posted by rbraun333

Leaving part in chuck overnite. OK?

Is ok on a CNC lathe to leave a part chucked over hight? I talking a 8" dia x 10" long 1018 steel chunk. about 140 lbs...
5 comments posted 15yrs
posted by rbraun333
5 comments posted 15yrs posted by rbraun333

RE: Fanuc Cable

I've a 15m controller that seems not to like the cable I've made using the various diagrams I've found on the web (abou...
13 comments posted 15yrs
posted by rwwink
13 comments posted 15yrs posted by rwwink

Cutting mold from DWG

Can any tell me how to redner the drawing to cut 2 mold halfs from the dwg file? I am using bobcad. These are not inject...
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posted by Noemail
0 comments posted 15yrs posted by Noemail