Hey Phil. Good to see you still have an interest in adding more videos to your collection. I am sure the information will help many people watching. Keep up the good work. Peter 👍
Life saver Phil! Learning Mazatrol and keeping an 86 QT20 running. Also learning feeds and speeds. Now I know where everything is pulling from. My old machine is only runs in low gear so I only have 1200 rpm to work with. The table you show is for your machine that has 3000 rpm capability. Would that mean I could just divide your higher RV and FV numbers by 3 and triple the Feed and be about right? Depth is just setting the maximum depth mazatrol would ever go with the auto programming correct? And by leaving it at 0 simply makes you enter the value if you use that operation eh? Awesome stuff here! I feel like I owe you Dinner and drinks after all the help these videos have given me. Thank you thank you.
@@mazatroltipsandtricks6816 The dump resistors from the spindle drive are not large enough to take the backfeed current in high gear. The spindle drive is not the original. This is the machine Mike from Montrose brought back from the dead 10 years ago with a ton of help from you and cnctoolcat and others on Practical Machinist. He was gonna just change out the controls but, thankfully, you and all the others convinced him to stick with it and get Mazatrol running. I do not have flood coolant -no coolant tray. I am running off a 3 phase converter in my shop.
Hello Phil. Again another awesome video I am interested in. I usually don't use the auto fill function as I usually plug my own numbers so would be a little inconsistent from program to program at times but know what I kind of like to run. Our Mazak Nexus 350II has a cut condition learn function on it. I haven't watched this whole video yet but does your machine function with this feature where it can be taught the values? I am assuming it utilizes the VFC function along with the teaching. I haven't figured this out yet so just leave them alone but your videos are vastly helpful in doing things I have never learned before. Thanks!
My machine is too old and doesn't learn values like machines like the T+ and newer like yours when I press the VFC button. It only updates the current process. The learn function is pretty awesome.
@@mazatroltipsandtricks6816 If you can elaborate on maybe how to do it on a newer machine that would truly be helpful. It might get me on the right path. I have to admit Phil you are a smart guy on these things!
@@jimmonk7936 Basically, you just push the VFC button when the spindle or feedrate is at anything other than 100% and it will add the new feeds and speeds into its database for that particular process or unit using that tool and material. Next time you push auto set, the machine will populate the feeds and speeds with a yellow box indicating those are learned values.
Hello phil, Your videos are amazing. I have a question about this machine. Can we add an external program to this machine from cam? Is there any usb port for this machine? if it is not can we add a usb port to this?
The older machines like mine use RS-232 port on the side of the control panel. You need special software from Mazak or another 3rd party to get programs into the machine. I have not heard of a way to simply load a program via USB on a machine without a factory installed port.
Hello Phil, thanks for the video. I have a question, may you know. It's need to milled several the same parts ( mdr face) like a massive. Does have the mazatrol function angle offset repetition, or needs to write individual block for the every part. Thanks and all the best.
Depending on the control, you can actually mill a series of slots using a drill cycle. Not sure if the newer controls will let you do it but the older T-3 doesn't mind. I'm actually planning on doing a video about it.
@@mazatroltipsandtricks6816 I had no idea you could pick up an existing thread. Do you by chance think that is worth a tutorial? I can’t thank you enough for your videos!!!!
@@toddlinder9447 Picking up an existing thread on an old Mazak is painful. The newer machines have a special ability to time the thread but my old machine does not have it. Hard to demonstrate that when I don't have it.
