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@davidliuxyz thats one way to run a big press 🫡

glad to see that he's wearing close toe shoes and a hard hat

@t3nable @obfuscated_D untill you drill at mild steel speeds into a weird weld affected zone 😭

@obfuscated_D Expensive but they last forever

❤️ carbide drills

@mkadnk @JasonPremoMFG slowly & with many many full depth pecking retracts. never again 🤞

@JasonPremoMFG Can you even drill 20xD without through coolant?

When u have to deep drill 20x hole in inconel with a $450 drill and the tool vendor says "just use speeds and feeds it says on the box"

@JasonPremoMFG I just leave the coolant blasting, clearing any chips out before i ease in. totally on the rpm ramping tho. high pressure coolant ftw

Typical best practice is to drill a 3xD pilot (ideally with .0002-.0005 oversize drill) and then sloooow rpm feed into hole to about 2xD and then ramp up RPM and then turn on coolant and send it! and slow down and turn off coolant before you pull out all way to avoid whipping

@gak_pdx @JasonPremoMFG vibes based drilling is an unfortunately large part of my job. The manufacturer specs only get you so far when your material is non standard.

@JasonPremoMFG I hate that situation… though I always start with the book feeds/speeds because what the hell else am I gonna do? Vibe feeds/speeds?

@SkinnyfatTony the accursed okuma hmi 🫣 awesome machines but the UI & stock handwheel is a struggle

Machining a robotic welding fixture part in my Okuma M560V CNC mill. I used SolidWorks with SolidCAM to generate the program. #roboticwelding #cncmachining #okuma

@NZ_Trav Pines, broom, gorse etc. So many spots around the country just overrun with the shit. It’s all well nailing it on your own property but when the neighbour plants a radiata plantation or lets a hillside go it’s an absolute battle. Hope this starts to help things.

This is well overdue, by decades. Glad this problem is finally getting some money thrown at it, the South Island high country is riddled with pines and other exotic species ruining the landscape and biodiversity. I saw how bad it was in Molesworth Station several years ago, can only imagine how bad it is now.

@poptartsupreme @amer_icon Every thing transitions alright to fusion from a solidworks file, but one thing that’s missing are the different configurations of the part file. It only imports to fusion with the last saved active configuration meaning you need to save the SW file a few time to get all configs

@amer_icon Do CAM on fusion👍

I haven't updated Solidworks since 2023, the last year of Mastercam integration. It took until now to hit a future version file. I'm not an engineer so I don't have a pressing need to update, but that tells me most of my customers may have discontinued license updates.

@EV_Trapper Relton, they also have a version for aluminium but the original tastes better.

What tapping fluid do you guys use?

@Gundermgg why does every face need features every time 😭 designer pls

My average design is like: "I got good news and bad news. The good news is you can do this in one op. The bad news is it'll take 2 hours on a big 5 axis."

@hunterlanier cleannn

I reckon I’m getting better at this

@kegrocket imma guess o-ring or circlip groove, it’s always a tooling or surface finish issue when i need to mount up parts in a lathe for subsequent ops.

@kegrocket Why'd you need to get it on the lathe?

Tell us about the craziest thing you ever dialed in on the 4-jaw

guttural sounds from Hollow Box fabs

Rrrrrrrip into it, big ol’ fab time

@hunterlanier fucken same bro 😭

@KyleJPat That’s insane, glad yall got it out!

So the good news is I got one of the injector holes tapped The bad news is my tap broke The good news though is I got it out But the bad news is I don’t have a tap for the other hole But the good news is I have another one getting here tomorrow because I was impatient

@hunterlanier welp, live n’ learn I managed to break a 8xd carbide drill full depth in an expensive fab the other day, we got it out with diamond paste & a fair amount of swearing. Shit happens, especially in weld affected zone.

@KyleJPat Just sent it

@adcock_brett “This is the last time a human will ever win” great goal to strive for We frequently use human throughput benchmarks from our customers manual processes to sell automation lines/solutions. Aime deserves a rest & while he does BOB can keep on sorting.

Congrats to Aime!! He said his left forearm is basically broken 😂 Final scores: → F.03: 12,732 packages (2.83 seconds/package) → Aime: 12,924 packages (2.79 seconds/package) This is the last time a human will ever win

@dirtman dollar dollar bill y'all

Welds rule everything around me