The Metalworking Thread

[Stihl Potlicker]

we have mics to measure you for cargo pants

and you need 2 people to hold it too. we usually use a pi tape for big stuff, the VTL operator can get within .0005" of what the CMM gets. not bad for a guy that 25 yrs ago the only thing he knew was cutting beef.

 

[davidwyby]

Fairly heavy duty.

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[Wilhelm]

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[davidwyby]

 

[davidwyby]

Finally put the second vid together

 

[davidwyby]

More sugar plant stuff. Someone forgot to install and oil line and smoked some thrust bearings. Spun the rope packing wheel on the shaft.

 

[Squareground3691]

More sugar plant stuff. Someone forgot to install and oil line and smoked some thrust bearings. Spun the rope packing wheel on the shaft.

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Nice job

 

[Yukon Stihl]

I made a template of the shape of a fuel tank that I wanted some steel bent so I could cut the rusted steel out and replace it.
The shop is 100 miles away
$480.00 for two bent pieces not even close to the templet were sent to me.
Going to be a discussion in the morning. Wasted my weekend.

 

[Squareground3691]

Cutter Blanks , some other stuff ,

 

[davidwyby]

Mori seiki TL5 extra steady rests

 

[davidwyby]

*and sugar beet process bore/face repair

 

[Partner]

Mori seiki TL5 extra steady rests
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I was in Hannover Germany at the exhibition of CNC machines, it's a good company apparently. There were several exhibition halls, it was hard to get around

 

[davidwyby]

I was in Hannover Germany at the exhibition of CNC machines, it's a good company apparently. There were several exhibition halls, it was hard to get around

This is an '80s one that our CNC guy rebuilt and updated to modern controls/servos/interface.

 

[davidwyby]

 

[davidwyby]

How many jobs/parts/industries can you find in that pic?

 

[davidwyby]

New to us VF7

 

[davidwyby]

Mori triple steady we built in action. @afleetcommand

 

[afleetcommand]

Interesting stuff CNC & Cad Cam, My first job with that stuff was cost justifying, specifying, buying, managing the installation, designing & building the fixtures & tooling for a pair of Niigata HN50a's with part probing ( Niigata's design , not a Renshaw ) & a pallet changer. I had to program those things and do the "macro b" program to manage the part probing and tool changing based on what the probing found Also ran and programed a couple of slant bed lathes all with fanuc 6mb controls. THAT turned into a career of travel as an AE for a couple of CAD/CAM companies then product manager for a machining package that was sold to a whole pile of end user CAM type programming systems..... like Gibbs & Associates ( Don't even know if they are still in business ) That stuff I managed ended up in a PILE of systems around the world from What once was SDRC ( EDS bought them out ) in the US to Hiitachi Zozen in Japan. Sold and did the installation of the c++ development environments for the companies to wrap their interfaces and code around our math at the time. Miss the early days when I was close to the machines, but don't miss the later years of travel one bit. Much rather be on a saw or a tractor.....re tired! SO it's cool to see stuff relative to that now.

 

[davidwyby]

A lady lost her son and wanted his wagon fixed up…so we did.

 

[Squareground3691]

A lady lost her son and wanted his wagon fixed up…so we did.

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That’s great thing you did David ,