What a machine!!!

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24 June 2015 at 14:12 #194714
Thomas Gude
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Mesmerising to watch!
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24 June 2015 at 14:12 #23955
Thomas Gude
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24 June 2015 at 14:30 #194718
Nick_G
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Its amazing what can be done on those 'Super Adept' machines ain't it.??

Nick
24 June 2015 at 15:04 #194720
Neil Wyatt
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Shouldn't that be on the Bodger's Lodge thread?

Neil
24 June 2015 at 15:46 #194725
KWIL
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That is no bodge, that is shear genius, come to think of it, So is JS.
24 June 2015 at 16:28 #194736
Flying Fifer
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I want one of them for Xmas please Santa.
24 June 2015 at 16:42 #194737
Ajohnw
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I want a real one so I can load jobs on a pallet and walk away and leave it to get on with it. Mixed milling and turning of course.

**LINK**

Only problem really is getting on for a million quid but worse still the good ones are about 12ft tall.

John

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24 June 2015 at 17:53 #194742
frank brown
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No coolant and an adequate surface finish?

Frank
24 June 2015 at 18:18 #194744
jason udall
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Actually..one of the “new” coolant solutions uses cold ( -40 centigrade) air..blast.
24 June 2015 at 18:40 #194746
J Hancock
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Yet another example of where, many years ago and far too late to put right now, ' engineers', around the world , sold their talents too cheaply. Where would all the bankers ( et al ) be, without all the toys that make money, make money. Instead of where they belong , at the bottom of the food chain.

Terrific machine though.
24 June 2015 at 18:49 #194748
Boiler Bri
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That makes my Cincinnati look prehistoric 😢
24 June 2015 at 18:51 #194749
Boiler Bri
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If they use coolant Frank it makes the tips brittle and chip off the edge. Saying that the tips do not last long.

Edited By Boiler Bri on 24/06/2015 18:51:39
24 June 2015 at 18:53 #194751
mechman48
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Very nice… wouldn't fit into my garage though! was just wondering about the cooling but Jason has answered it. What is it it's just made… Universal Joint / cam lobe / worm drive / ball joint thingy a ma bob…? probably drives a giant clockwork onion… .
24 June 2015 at 18:54 #194752
capnahab
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all the scarf is also instantly vaporising, no birds nests.
24 June 2015 at 18:54 #194753
JasonB
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Using tapping fluid when tapping the holes though
24 June 2015 at 20:46 #194770
Michael Gilligan
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It's a shame they didn't include any footage of the bloke twiddling the handles

… He must really earn his keep.

MichaelG.
24 June 2015 at 21:28 #194775
Boiler Bri
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Michael, programmers for CNC are becoming a law unto themselves and are commanding very good money, skill related of course. We have had guys come for jobs and we now ask for a demonstration under the guidance of our senior programmer ( which is what they are really).

When your trusting someone that you do not know with your £80k machine, one has to be sensible😁

Bri
24 June 2015 at 21:48 #194780
Michael Gilligan
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Sorry, Bri

It was meant as a joke.

MichaelG.
24 June 2015 at 22:39 #194788
wheeltapper
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Posted by mechman48 on 24/06/2015 18:53:22:

Very nice… wouldn't fit into my garage though! was just wondering about the cooling but Jason has answered it. What is it it's just made… Universal Joint / cam lobe / worm drive / ball joint thingy a ma bob…? probably drives a giant clockwork onion… .

I imagine it's one of those "lets make something really cool to show off all the different things it can do" things.

in other words, a posh paperweight.

Roy.
24 June 2015 at 22:49 #194789
Nicholas Farr
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Hi, well I don't think I've got any big enough bits of metal to justify using one.

Regards Nick.
24 June 2015 at 23:07 #194791
John Stevenson 1
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But if you downsize a bit we already have the cheaper spin offs.

If 15 years ago someone said you could have a CNC mill, CNC lathe, 3D Printer and a laser cutter in your little shed / garage / workshop / man cave [ delete as necessary ] you would have been burnt at the stake as a heretic using Winfield and Sooper Adapt packing cases [ well cardboard box or newspaper in the Sooper Adapts case ] as fuel.

That little laser cutter spends a lot of it's time, when working, making gaskets. Now that word has gone round it seems that no one wants to tap a gasket out with a small ball pein hammer any more. One fork lift company is over the moon because I make them ten gaskets for what Mitubushi want for one and it's not even hard work to throw a sheet of paper on the bed, press go and then go put the kettle on.

Not the gasket in question

But the curved slot is 0.75mm wide and the hole towards the outer of the central spar is 0.5mm.

Try tapping that out with a 2lb hammer

The whole point being, no mater what industry has it filters down eventually
25 June 2015 at 13:09 #194858
Ian S C
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Even the battery electric drill was developed for the US Moon landings, mainly as a tool for drilling for samples of lunar soil, now most households have one for better or worse. Ian S C
25 June 2015 at 16:51 #194891
wheeltapper
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If you go to their website you can spend an hour or six watching lots of fascinating machining.

Roy.
25 June 2015 at 21:23 #194926
Boiler Bri
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No offence taken, just a fact of industry!

Bri
25 June 2015 at 22:53 #194933
David Colwill
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I can't begin to fathom how the designers (of the machine) wrote the control software for it. An ordinary 3 axis mill yes but that thing. It gives me a headache just thinking about it

David
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