Haas TL-1 chambering pics

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Dave Tooley

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Here are a couple of pictures of my first chamber job on the Haas. I have about .050" to go. I'll finish it up in the morning. I have a few things to adjust to make them more operator friendly but all is going well. Coolant worked as advertised. Nat,your right I should have done that a long time ago. The air with coolant works great. I eased into how much air as I didn't want to spray the whole shop down. It doesn't take much. Surprisingly little as a matter of fact.

Dave
 

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Dave, that is looking fine.

As a new member of the TL-1 club, I am looking forward to your opinion of the first chambers.

I made the TL-1 do its first chips today... I think I'm gonna like it.

How is your orange table attached on your headstock side? Can you post a wider picture?
 
OK, I'm a cubby..... How does the air thingy work? Are you cooling with it ONLY, or blowing the chips out and oiling the reamer, or what?

More info please!

:)

al
 
Dave your next investment...

Dave:

Go to one of the race team shops over in Charlotte and get their shop to give you a demonstration of Gibbs Cam/Solid Works. If you know how to run a CAD program it will give you an instant up on the learning curve. Knowing a little geometry and trig will also help. Understanding basic machining also is a big help understanding the tooling part. Advance machining and the use of a universal indexer will give you a fundamental understanding on machining in the 4th and 5th axis. Anyone can machine the X, Y, Z axis. Straight lines are easy on a manual machine. The advantage of CNC is now you can cut in an arc, on a bevel, and a compound angle at the same time. Cuts on a piece of stock can be cut in precision relationship to each other and it duplicated over and over again.

My money would say that the CNC bug has bitten and your next two investments will be: 1. A good (Gibbs CAM) CNC computer program for writing G code, tooling, solid works (modeling/testing) and machining. 2. A 3 or 4 axis vertical mill (maybe a HAAS VF 20).

If your community college offers Machining classes including CNC Programing you might be well served taking a couple of classes. It will accelerate your learning curve. In 3-4 semesters your knowledge and skills will pay for themself in a month or less. For a couple of years I signed up for basic machining, the instructors knew my skill level and allowed me to work independently of the class. I had a million dollar shop to my disposal since the class (students) was all using the manual machines. I could not lease the equipment I had to my disposal for the cost of the class.

Be safe and make a lot of chips..
Nat
 
The air is T'd in to the supply line. It has a check valve and a foot valve on the floor. When I'm running the reamer in, if I think the chips are getting wadded up I tap the foot valve and it increase the fluid flow. As the coolant catches back up it's very bubbly and will help with dislodging chips.

The shelf is a piece of 8" channel (free BTW) that is bolted using two screws on the cover plate of the machine.

Nat

I'm going to look into a course or two at the local college. If for no other reason than to fully utilize this machine.
I've got a good customer who's an engineer at JGR who keeps trying to get me up there. Probably be there in a week or two for work and will get the grand tour of the place. I'll see what program they are using.

Dave
 
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Dave Tooley said:
The air is T'd in to the supply line. It has a check valve and a foot valve on the floor. When I'm running the reamer in, if I think the chips are getting wadded up I tap the foot valve and it increase the fluid flow. As the coolant catches back up it's very bubbly and will help with dislodging chips.

The shelf is a piece of 8" channel (free BTW) that is bolted using two screws on the cover plate of the machine.

Dave
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thanx

al
 
Charles

I have found out that without a reamer in the barrel just a tap on the air valve will launch a stream of bore size coolant straight into the tailstock.

I was warned by the guys at Surgeon that I would have to put drip rails around the thing and their right. You would think there would be trough around the thing but there isn't.

Dave
 
Dave,

I just ordered absorbents to put under the edge of the base.

(McMaster Carr #7193T14 - Universal Polypropylene Sorbent 15" W X 150'L Perforated Roll, Absorbs 20 Gal/Rl)

This was pretty obvious on my first use of coolant. It's not bad, and the pads will make it tolerable.
 
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