It Brings A Tear To My Eye 😁 

You can decrease your cycle time more by speeding up your fast feeds in your program. Also take the X0 out at the end of the cycle and it will come straight forward and not all the way to home position. Looks like you’re holding on about .125”. You can definitely push it harder and not throw it out of the vise.

Oh hell, hold my beer, I can do this with my cordless angle grinder and a file in 2 1/2 minutes.

Find the biggest glass tablet/iPad screen protector and put it on the inside of the window, the coatings on it will let the coolant bead off better

I was a tech at Hughes Aircraft for a little over a decade from 80'-93. My Dad was a program engineer. We ended up needing to machine Titanium in a production setting. My Dad called a guy named Manuel Turchan that he'd met at the Chicago Tool show. We ended up with a milling machine that ran spindle speeds of 100,000 rpm on Titanium. There was no chip. The chip came off as a gas. The surround was bullet proof. And to watch this thing was mesmerizing.

I can watch a CNC all day long. Something magical about a cutter doing its job.

My dad walked uphill both ways going to school. I took a standard transmission bus with no AC to school and now you have a laptop for school. Times have changed some wonderful and others not so much. These machines are fascinating to me. Makes me wish I was a kid again. My vehicles would be one of a kind that's for sure

Steve, as a veterinarian, I can say that if you use a "insert brand" vice, it will keep it in the vice better and you can program the CNC to go 200% faster if you disregard any potential harm to the machine. Please ask me before using anything else. I am a veterinarian.

i was a machine operator making billet fly wheels - loading in blanks and removing finished product and then deburr !

There's a huge difference between a CNC programmer and a really good CNC programmer, like ocean wide.

You should look into your post processor and see if you can get it to change the post so it doesn’t send the machine to home position at the end of the program. Either that or you can change the G28 to a G0 and then adjust your X and Y values to bring the table to a convenient location for the operator. Having a drum tool changer is fine for a startup machine or a hobbyist looking to expand their capabilities. But if your a full on shop an ATC is the only way to go. The time savings on tool changes is definitely worth it. Also something to possibly look into is a smaller machine specifically for small jobs like that. If you got a HAAS mini mill or a TM1 you could probably shave another 30-40% off your cycle time because the machine table is so much smaller your rapid movements can be over 1,000ipm instead of the 400ipm in the VF series machine.

I love watching these machines hogging material away so quickly. I watch every episode on Titans of CNC to see how fast a high quality product can truly be made. Keep cutting those cycle times down! It’s awesome to see.

Strong word of advice, unless you own a spindle shop, keep your rpm below 80% of max rated.

My career was plastic injection molding and loved watching the chips fly. Equipment just keeps getting better.

The precision and technology in machines today are amazing. Congrats on your new toy Steve and thanks for sharing. This stuff is just cool af. 😎

We started replacing old machines with new ones in 2015, with new technology like dynamic milling we got a 70% reduction in cycle time. Its amazing

Looking good. And if you run into some problems you can just call Tom Bailey to come fix it. 😂😂

The shop motto is "Fine Tune Everything To Go Fast - Then Turn It Down To Make It Last".

"We can build it better, faster, stronger. We have the technology."

Time is money, as the saying goes. Congrats on getting the parts machined quicker and the first thing we noticed was that surface finish. We call that jewelry grade. Cheers!

You have every right to be proud. Well done sir.

It's always fun to watch peoples excitement when they get a new machine tool. It looks like quite a jump in technology, probably 30 years.

First you get good, then you get fast. I tell my wife that and she said "Well you must be really good then!" LOL

Love your enthusiasm and excitement. I just got a new digital camera for my work and i feel the same excitement.

Come on Steve, motorheads dont cry😂

That’s awesome. If you spend some time developing a fixture plate you could probably get 8-16-24 main caps at a time done. Smash them out in sub 2 minutes as your not changing tools every operation. Might not need the volume yet though

When you can save 2/3 of the cut time it will really help!

G187 P1/2/3 are useful settings to look at. P1 Rough & loose P2 Medium P3 Fine Accuracy

Steve's like a proud new dad showing everyone how cool his kid is 😅

So glad to be here and watch you and your shop grow even more than what it was already at. The pleasure is ours man. Keep up the fantastic work.

Wow so cool! That thing is humming through that aluminum!!!

Now for a couple of more vices and you'll be up town. Or a vice to flip the part to the other operation. We would flip parts in the machine from vice to vice and come off the last vice finished. Lots of ways to accomplish a task.

dovetail gripper jaws will hold that rock solid, double the feedrate, and do both climb and conventional milling while roughing should make that a sub 2 minute job. Depending what parts you're making, setting up 2+ vises to run multiple parts greatly lowers cycle time per part as well. Modern equipment is so much better then 20 year old stuff even if you're using lower end stuff like a haas.

Christmas came early to the Steve Morris Engines shop this year. This is a NICE machine.

Use dovetail vise jaws (many different kinds) You don't need to clamp the part very hard and it'll be almost impossible to throw the part out of the vise. (machinist here)

I love getting the right tool for the job!! New toys are fun to play with, too. ☺️ Fyi Mitee Bite makes some awesome replacement jaws with fangs that dig into the material to hold it (Talon Grip). super low profile too (I think .06”?). Can really up your feeds and speeds!

The price tag on that machine is where that tear came from😂

Our facility gets aluminum from Kaiser as well, I just wish we had more products that would justify usage of a Haas VF4 or VF5 to upgrade the dinosaurs we currently have. You're gonna love that thing, it'll pay for itself in no time. You can certainly optimize that program to cut down on the cycle time even further without compromising quality. Old shop I used to work at could profile/drill 4 fixtures of 1/4" thick end plates in under a minute in a VF4. There's no reason you couldn't easily get your cycle time under 2:30.

Those tool changes and rapids will make you pucker up just a little, lol

Thanks for sharing. This is my daily job.

Absolutely love seeing this stuff

I remember watching our first CNC machine in 1994 building snowmobile engine parts. Blown away.

I would hope they make someone happy . Those machines are nice & expensive. 3 mins and done ! Awesome. Be safe.

I do this operation to my rust bucket all the time at the drive through car wash lol!

I’m having flash back from my manufacturing classes in college. Learned on the exact same HAAS CNC 15 years ago. I made a killer nameplate.

I think Steve looks around and can't believe where his business has gotten to. Smarts and hard work pay off.

Steve bought a new machine, so I am doing my part to help pay for it by watching and commenting. 😊

Now that is cool!! Congrats Mr. Morris!

Amazing! Time saver, quality control and supply chain all in one! Congratulations!!!!

Awesome how technology has improved most businesses!

Pay attention kids. This is what hard work and perseverance can get you.

That’s awesome excited to see the parts come out of this

Are you using Fuion 360 / HSMWorks to program? The amount of stay down looks like it. Pick the tool up and use rapids to move. Also in roughing change the post on how it outputs the code. If you reduce the tiny moves in High Speed machining it will process the code faster and not have the slowdowns. Great stuff guys!!

the old machine served its purpose

Absolutely beautiful machine!

Thats so bad ass hell yea brother keep it up !! Razing the bar is what u do !!

I loooooooooove seeing what you're able to do with progressively better machines, Steve! Congrats on the new beast and the nearly 3X speedup in main cap milling!!

Chamfering is what distinguishes proper machinists from animals... ;)

Yep fantastic machines, last week we just got in our new VF5ss to replace our old one with a palet changer

Congrats nice to see that bad ass machine in-service

Instead of spinning the tyres, we're now spinning the CNC so fast that we have to turn it down 😂 Such a unit Steve! That surface finish is incredible, sooo clean!

I cant imagine what mechanics from the 40s would think of the automotive technology of today.

Steve, just AWESOME! Thanks for sharing and not forgetting the amazing engineers who design and build machines to this level! They are just as AWESOME! 🙂😎😎🤓🤓

Shop is looking amazing Steve! Super cool 😎

Very intriguing ❤

Congrats Steve !! Use G187P1 for roughing and helical with chipbreaker. 1/2" Full depth, 0.100 woc, 12k. Let it eat.

There’s still a ton of meat on the bone in that program. Speed up the back feed a ton, g187p1 for the roughing, that’s more like a 1 minute part. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

Now slap as many dual or tri stations vises in there and get that part density up.

Look into serrated vise jaws. They will bite into the material and give more clamping force!!!

Hit that with a 3/4 kor-5 with the feeds/speeds Titan tells you to run at plus fixturing from Pierson workholding.. You be in business now buddy!!

Are you using in program probing yet? Take youre cut .005" over final... probe in program, and it will auto update your tool offset and then take the final. Its a beautiful thing

So nice to see someone whom the work stuff is getting him so excited. So happy for you Steve. Currently I am building my self one machine (Infra red laser engraver for control panels on my amplifiers) on peanuts money/pocket change money scale compering to this and I am so excited. Can't wait that all of the parts are in. It's a Frankensteins monster but I will make it work for my purpose. Not my first machine and sadly I am not a kid and I am still excited. I am 52 years old and making stuff and getting stuff that gives me autonomy in building my stuff still makes me exited and very happy. More thing I can do in house, happier I get.

I ran a machine just like this fresh outta high school. I made parts for tesla out of billet aluminum. Literally the same exact machine.

Sweet machine!

The cool things that makes you happy, yeah your a very cool guy!

Hell yea brother congrats on the new cnc

If i was running that machine i would never get any work done...always staring through the glass drooling

That coolant flow, holy moly

Time is money, as they say!

Amazing the difference ! Will you keep the old machine for other work that does not require such speed ? Thanks for the update , keep going forward.

Couldn't emotionally handle such a device as that. Hell I'd get dizzy, short of breath, and a little misty over something as simple as a new file the company would supply us with occasionally.

When it was etching the logo it reminds me of the machine at Walmart that does the dog tags 😂

Hi Steve, velocity pressure is 0.5(rho)v^2. V is exhaust velocity, rho is exhaust density. Hence if you double the velocity, velocity pressure (and thrust) will go up 4 fold. If you triple your velocity, pressure will go up 3^2=9 fold. As your exhausts heats, rho will decrease but velocity will expand proportionally with temperature. Hence when it’s hot, and max power… unsure how much your velocity will be, but the velocity pressure proportional to velocity squared. You also have the same mass of air intake opposite direction, but it’s not hot like 4000HP. So if the exhaust velocity matches intake velocity it will cancell, but it won’t match under temperature. Density… You need to know exhaust velocity at temperature, if we now temp of exhaust and CFM you can calculate it. Hopefully someone dies it for you

High pressure coolant pump is one of the Keys. HAAS has it going on!

Awesome sauce !!! Steve's Loving it !!!

Been a while since I programmed a haas, but I’m pretty sure, I would manually add a G28G91YZ, after the last positive Z move off the part, and the table comes to the operator door. Or at least a lot closer than shifting off to the right. Nice machine! Good luck!!

Steve, There are serrated hard jaws available for Kurt vises, that would let you knock considerably more (roughly another minute) off your cycle time with that high speed spindle option. You'd be amazed what can be done with feed rates in aluminum while maintaining absolute accuracy. HAAS are probably my favorite CNC machine tools. I spent many years in front of both and they are almost always the most user friendly and productive for the dollar. I was "Mr. Wizard" where I was, with the mills, truth was I just knew how to let the machine cut at it's true potential. 4 axis contouring and the newer 3 axis lathes, a working knowledge of Word Address (g code), and some good 3d software on a healthy tower and there's nothing the machines can't make. In aluminum - feeds at several hundred inches a minute are nothing with high helix tooling, and No alkaline based coolants. (no lubricity)

Crazy fast and what a finish

Your linking feedrates can be way faster in your roughing pass. All the time spent not cutting is wasted time. If that's Fusion 360, increase the "No-Engagement Feedrate" in your adaptive toolpath to whatever the max feedrate of the machine is. Right now it looks like it's running at the programmed feedrate (like 140 inches a minute) but it could be 833 inches a minute. You can set that 833 to your "user default" as well so you don't have to do that every time.

Brock is the man. Roughing passes can improve, a lot of cutting air 🙃

What??? Awesome man!

Thank you Steve, what I think is so cool with the new CNC machines is the up-feeding works, back when I learned how to be a machinest, that would break tools in a heartbeat! (with speed)

Talon grips from mitee bite, long or short ones. Lot less likely to toss a part. Tsc is huge too

This vid is a middle finger to Bailey 🤣

Come on Steve, just jog your table back over in X, or set your table to return to center location in the program. I've setup and run this same machine for several years. Along with Mazaks, Kiwas, Mikron, Mori, Citizens, and a few others. If you ever need a machinist just hit me up lol

That in machine lighting is amazing!

Is it a HASS.? Hopefully Tom gets his machine up and going Awesome stuff 🇺🇸

Could definitely speed that up a lot. Look in too helical (Michigan made) endmills with chip splitters. Lakeshore carbide also sells some really nice rougher/finishers. Mitee bite jaws only need .08 to hold on to and bite in to the metal really good. If you really want to speed up production and setups look in to orange vises.

Integrating a pallet system where you could run a couple engines worth of main caps each run would allow more time away from the machine to complete other tasks, it would greatly improve efficiency and workload.

I love how it's still not fast enough, according to 90% of the comments.

Incredible machine that'll come in handy when you buy your 1929 SJ Duesenberg can make parts wouldn't that be cool 1929 8 cylinders dual overhead cam 4 valves per cylinder supercharged how did they do it back then have a great day