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Had a parting off blade dig in and shatter in the little myford, that was a change of pants time, wouldn't fancy owt bigger going
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Work holding and clamping clashes are the bulk of the problems if not accounted for tool paths when programming.
The huge amounts of power and the speed things happen, can cause damage.
I once had 2 days of downtime on a cnc router after a operator loaded a tool incorectly into a tool changer location. A slotting tool in place of a standard cutter, through a lump of 25mm mdf 3050 x 1525.
Sheet moved about 4 foot before the tool snapped not before ripping out airlines and dust extraction ducting.
In the process the x axis sheared a few teeth of a drive belt on the gear.
The huge amounts of power and the speed things happen, can cause damage.
I once had 2 days of downtime on a cnc router after a operator loaded a tool incorectly into a tool changer location. A slotting tool in place of a standard cutter, through a lump of 25mm mdf 3050 x 1525.
Sheet moved about 4 foot before the tool snapped not before ripping out airlines and dust extraction ducting.
In the process the x axis sheared a few teeth of a drive belt on the gear.
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Work holding and clamping clashes are the bulk of the problems if not accounted for tool paths when programming.
The huge amounts of power and the speed things happen, can cause damage.
I once had 2 days of downtime on a cnc router after a operator loaded a tool incorectly into a tool changer location. A slotting tool in place of a standard cutter, through a lump of 25mm mdf 3050 x 1525.
Sheet moved about 4 foot before the tool snapped not before ripping out airlines and dust extraction ducting.
In the process the x axis sheared a few teeth of a drive belt on the gear.
Similar thing happened to a brand new Amarda Turret punch, fitted a 10x60mm slotting tool 90* out to the top tooling.
That made a mess, and a big hole in the gaffers pocket. Same guy did the same with a louvre tooling the following week
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WorkshopChris
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We had tool changers with 12 tool positions no.12 was regularly the only tool to be swapped out for most of the programs. Every program i wrote that accessed tool 12 had a sub program at the very start that would pick tool 12 and at a safe height would move to the corner next to the operator and cycle on on and off 3 times before starting the main program.
That worked as a reminder to any operator that they needed to confirm the tool was correctly selected.
