On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Jon Anderson <janders1...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 9/27/2010 7:32 AM, Igor Chudov wrote: >> I have a possible job to do to drill and tap 200 holes. The more I >> think, the more it seems that I would be served well if I get rigid >> tapping to work. > > Thought just occurred to me, EMC will thread mill, right? Given the > number of holes, you might consider popping for a Thriller made by Emuge. > Properly programmed, it will drill, thread, and chamfer the hole. Emuge > has details of how to program the thread milling, use that data in a > subroutine. > I'm not familiar with subroutine calls with repeats, but done properly, > I think you could get away with a sub call for one row, a sub call > repeating that row call in the other axis, and the subroutine itself. > > A potential job several years ago would have involved huge amounts of > drilling and tapping 1/4-20 blind holes. Had the job come through I > would have quickly gotten into a machining center. I contacted Emuge for > some details on cycle time. Given a 10K spindle and proper coolant, an > engineer told me to expect a cycle time of a few seconds per hole. You > don't have that RPM or high volume coolant, but it should give you an > idea. Of course, being mostly hobby, gotta weigh time vs money...
I have high enough volume coolant for this application. My top RPM for a long job is 2,600 RPM. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
