Orange Vise Factory Tour! DMG Mori Horizontal, Brother 5-Axis! 

+1 Jay

I was reading the comment thinking "Hey, that sounds like Jay talking". Well guess who it was!

Tools rarely last years. Maybe the tool holder.

@@joachimsingh2929 ...and sometimes a person can be a tool.

lol hes on mission

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haha.... very much agreed Rashethippo...a good one

TOflat You can always use "FLOATING TAPPING ER COLLET" it solve this problem.

Thanks for mentioning the GMT instructional videos. They're great! I wish that I would have known about them months ago.

He started selling oranges.

The touchscreen is laggy, with no feedback besides an annoying beep for every button press. The HMI on the tool changer is also a bit on the slow side. You should have a ladder book in the cabinet, and a box of manuals with the machine. If you call out DMG, they can speed up your toolchanger. Have them speed up you chip conveyor also, both are slow from the factory (or at least every one I've dealt with is) I'm not sure about your machines, but none I've worked on are box ways, all linear rails. With the NHX's it's something like three rails for the x axis and two for the y axis - and they're not small rails. I've bumped one out of alignment once. it took a lot (the rapids are stupid fast, even into the side of a fixture....) I'm sure you'll enjoy the machines. Did you get Mitsu or Fanuc in the cabinet? If it's Fanuc, have extra fans on the shelf. For some reason we seem to go through a couple every few years.

When you have a part extending from the chuck on a lathe without using a tail stock or some form of end part support you run the risk of the part sagging in the Z aixs direction, resulting in diameter change across the part. You tend to see it more when you get into 4-6x diameter to length on a part.