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Hi all,
I just joined the site, glad to be here. I just decided to get back into all of this and came across what I hope was a good deal. Haven't got everything sorted out yet, but I hope someone would help me get things going.
I have a background in machining (AS9100 certified for Boeing Defence) but only delt with CNCVMCs (HASS Makino SNK) and the occasional manual lathe and bridgeport. These things are so tiny I don't quite know where the limitations are. I've seen the belt drives and metal gears and would like to know what options I have to achieve the most accurate and repeatable results while increasing it's productivity and capabilities. I may want to do the CNC router down the road for the mill but for now just a recommendation on a good DRO system and QCTP for the lathe (I intend to buy the larger bed from little machine shop) and a recommendation for a larger cross-slide DRO and potential motor swap for the mill. I plan on cutting 7075 60% of the time (spindle is really kinda slow for aluminum) and mild steel to stainless the other 40%
Also as I didn't get any documentation with this, what should I be looking at as far as PM before I begin running them?
I found all of this from a guy who's girlfriends dad had passed away and let me walk away with everything for $500. Said the guy use to make RC parts with them. I dug through the box when I got it home and was pleased to find the tooling that I did. I think I made out alright but I hope that it wasn't all a bust. Again I never had such faith in Chinese tools.
Here is everything I got.
I just joined the site, glad to be here. I just decided to get back into all of this and came across what I hope was a good deal. Haven't got everything sorted out yet, but I hope someone would help me get things going.
I have a background in machining (AS9100 certified for Boeing Defence) but only delt with CNCVMCs (HASS Makino SNK) and the occasional manual lathe and bridgeport. These things are so tiny I don't quite know where the limitations are. I've seen the belt drives and metal gears and would like to know what options I have to achieve the most accurate and repeatable results while increasing it's productivity and capabilities. I may want to do the CNC router down the road for the mill but for now just a recommendation on a good DRO system and QCTP for the lathe (I intend to buy the larger bed from little machine shop) and a recommendation for a larger cross-slide DRO and potential motor swap for the mill. I plan on cutting 7075 60% of the time (spindle is really kinda slow for aluminum) and mild steel to stainless the other 40%
Also as I didn't get any documentation with this, what should I be looking at as far as PM before I begin running them?
I found all of this from a guy who's girlfriends dad had passed away and let me walk away with everything for $500. Said the guy use to make RC parts with them. I dug through the box when I got it home and was pleased to find the tooling that I did. I think I made out alright but I hope that it wasn't all a bust. Again I never had such faith in Chinese tools.
Here is everything I got.
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