Odd Q on machine stability

Dancing machines, eh? Thoughts? Well here's one.

How about putting a VMC within a cage so it can tilt back and work as a Horizontal with all it's attendant advantages? Opps, there go the tables and the tools in the carousel. :( OK, let's put a HMC within a cage to rotate it forward so it would be as easy as a Vertical to set up. Then tilt it back for machining. Eh? LOL

I can remember an ISS hard drive (600 megabyte monster - about the size of a dish washer) way back when dancing across the floor.

One of the monthly programs would make it cha cha cha!

EA:

Some shops try to isolate machining centers by mounting them on anti-vibration rubber mounting pads.

And conversely, some machining center's frames (either castings or weldments), are so light duty (read flimsy), that they NEED the extra torsional stability and rigidity that screwing them to the concrete floor affords.

O.K. Please explain what you would be pumping in from outside? Not much out there. :-)

Enjoy, DoN.

"one of the most impressive peripherals" "The FASTRAND? II"

[ Fastrand (? Sperry Rand Corporation) is a nonfloppy rotating cylindrical device used for storing angular momentum. The total angular momentum available is slightly reduced if the data-storage option is fitted, owing to the braking effect of the read-write heads on the magnetized surface. (Kelly-Bootle, S. 1995. The Computer Contradictionary, Second Edition. Cambridge: MIT Press.) ] [ FASTRAND n. [copyright Sperry Rand Corporation.] A nonfloppy rotating cylindrical device used for storing angular momentum. In the event of a power failure, the FASTRAND can be coupled to a standby generator for several days. Note that the total angular momentum available is slightly reduced if the data-storage option is fitted, owing to the braking effect of the read-write heads on the magnetized drum surface. Three or more FASTRANDs should not be switched on simultaneously at the same site without consulting Sperry's in-house geophysicist. The latter will also advise on the correct lattitude-dependent orientation of the drum axis to avoid data loss due to coriolis forces. - reproduced from Stan Kelly-Bootle's book, The Devil's DP Dictionary, 1981 McGraw-Hill ]