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victor759
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1d ago
I always ran my roughing passes dry until a guy at the Tulsa shop showed me his inserts
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stone.jesse
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2d ago
Ran the same 500 aluminum brackets with a 3 flute and a 2 flute, the difference was night and day on my spindle
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hannaht29
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2d ago
Spent 6 hours chasing a taper error on a Haas VF2 that turned out to be one loose leveling bolt
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fiona_sullivan29
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2d ago
I finally switched from a 4 flute to a 3 flute carbide end mill on 6061 and the chip evacuation difference is nuts
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valsullivan
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3d ago
Unpopular opinion: I stopped using a file to deburr and my finish got way better in 3 weeks
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the_mary
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4d ago
Ran 40 parts past the probe on Tuesday and caught a 0.012 drift before it scrapped anything
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clark.iris
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4d ago
Serious question, was a $340 tapping arm worth it or did I just waste my money?
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the_ruby
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5d ago
Dropped $340 on a presetter that sat in the box for 8 months
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valsullivan
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6d ago
TIL an old toolmaker at the Dayton shop showed me his trick for spotting a spun insert before it wrecks the bore
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river_scott
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8d ago
Dropped $1,200 on a tool pre-setter and I still touch off every tool by hand
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briancampbell
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8d ago
Unpopular opinion: bumping my feed and speed up 40% stopped my chatter on 6061
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gavins43
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8d ago
Serious question, went with G54 over G55 for a one-off fixture plate job in Dayton, did I overthink it?
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knight.diana
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9d ago
Why does nobody talk about backlash in the Z axis after a tool change
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olivers28
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11d ago
Can we talk about the old guy who said my feeds and speeds were 'polite'
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beth_hart68
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11d ago
A guy at the Rockford shop showed me how to indicate a vise and I still do it his way 9 years later
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