01-12-2016, 05:26 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Sunbury,
VIC
Cobra Make, Engine: Rat Rod Racer, LS1 & T56
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Slowly working out tooling for the new mill. The Hafco mill uses an NT30 taper for the tools. The CNC mill has an R8 taper which means most of my old tooling is not compatible with the new mill... Bugger.
Many of the tools like the boring head and indexable tipped face mills are mounted on arbors so it's just a matter of detaching them from the NT30 arbor and buying a suitable R8 arbor. I picked up a couple of new arbors the other day.
I also bought a new mill vice. With CNC there is no need for a swivel base vice any more. Any odd angles can just be programmed in. The new vice is a beast. It's a modular vice that is precision ground so should make for some nice accurate machining. The jaws are 6" wide and it opens to 12". It's also has a special type of jaw that pulls the work piece down as well as clamping it in place. To me it's machinist porn.
Cheers
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Mike Murphy
Melbourne Australia
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