My new toy!

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Hi Ken,

At first I was going to, then I opted out of it and went with the probing instead.


Here she is all powered up and waiting to go!



Vises came in the other day. Sadly though in all my haste to get things going..........I forgot to order all the tooling to clamp them to the table with.....DOH!

Had to buy T nuts, studs, clamps, nuts, 2 complete sets of parallels, 2 sets of parallel keepers, 2 adjustable side stops, 2 groove lock jaws, and 4 groove lock stops.

Believe it or not, the accessories ended up costing more than the vises!




Before...........





After.............all ready to go now!




After a suggestion from a friend in another forum I altered the shipping bracket for the Renishaw to protect it from any possible damage due to either a launched piece from the vise (hopefully never!) or most likely from when face milling a lot of times the last bit will shear off and send a fairly sizable chunk bouncing around inside.

It would not take much of a whack to knock the Renishaw out of calibration or even worse break off the setting stylus.




I simply slotted the bracket where it's bolted to the table so I can just loosen the bolt, slide out the bracket, probe the tools, and slide it back before making parts.




All loaded up with the first job!! Sadly, I have run into problems setting my work coordinate system using the probe and ran out of time on Saturday before I could make any chips. However.....on Monday, if bad comes to worse, I will do it the old fashioned way, set it by hand and get making chips while trying to figure it out during the run cycle.




Best Regards,
Russ