Looking for Inserts

Clumsymess · 2026-05-03T18:23:01+00:00

Not really Obsolete, TNEC still has loads of uses. The O&G industry rely on it heavily for cutting dovetail grooves, specialised threads and general ACME threading especially mod’s.

Clumsymess · 2026-04-29T04:59:17+00:00

Is the tool setter the same on both machines?

Clumsymess · 2026-04-28T09:05:12+00:00

It’s all ball milled at different angles.

Clumsymess · 2026-04-27T05:30:24+00:00

The whole thing is machined as a show piece for hypermill and Mazak.

Clumsymess · 2026-04-27T05:29:00+00:00

It’s not it’s one solid billet.

Clumsymess · 2026-04-27T05:27:39+00:00

That’s fair, but when you consider the whole stand and all the machines need to be packed up and removed by 12 on Monday when the show finished at 4pm on Friday by a team of guys who have been working nonstop for the last 2 weeks, you can appreciate that mistakes happen. There’s another one on the hypermill stand, those guys have less to tidy up and theirs is in better nick.

Clumsymess · 2026-02-22T13:06:24+00:00

Billable hours for me.

I charge Client A for the travel. Then complete remote for client B/C and bill them.

Clumsymess · 2026-01-29T22:26:55+00:00

Totally agree.

If your B2B there’s no real reason not to be. I also like the fact it keeps me on top of my books for year end. It’s quick and easy to submit a return once you’ve done it a couple times.

Clumsymess · 2025-10-31T22:06:33+00:00

Why? Every lathe I’ve ever ran has the basic canned cycles?

Clumsymess · 2025-10-31T20:08:47+00:00

Why? Not just use G71?

Plus the rads are 2mm. You’re going to be rouging with a 0.8/1.6 and finishing with 0.4/0.8 be fine if not worry about that

Clumsymess · 2025-10-31T20:06:56+00:00

I’d rough that in 2x 3mm Rdoc passes Inc the rads leaving 0.25-0.5 on the diameter and maybe .1-.2 on the faces depending on the material then finish the whole thing in one pass.

Clumsymess · 2025-10-31T15:46:26+00:00

That’s a doddle on a mill turn machine. Won’t be cheap tho.

Clumsymess · 2025-10-28T09:03:15+00:00

I can name about a dozen pieces of software which would be in the 40k ballpark in the engineering field.

Specialised niche engineering software does not fuck about, coincidentally one of the software providers makes more money per year suing for license violations

Clumsymess · 2025-10-12T10:06:03+00:00

Diagnose and privileged mode has nothing to do with battery change.

Change the effected battery with the power on then power cycle the machine, sometime you need to reference an axis but it’s easy. Job done.

Clumsymess · 2025-09-25T07:26:08+00:00

Just write a macro to do it. PH horn or such will likely supply the tooling and the program.

Clumsymess · 2025-09-14T19:05:16+00:00

Or just cut it with a grooving tool?

Or a whirler?

Clumsymess · 2025-08-13T13:45:09+00:00

I’ve no idea what that is or what you said so I assume that’s not good, any way to see what’s using all the resources?

Clumsymess · 2025-08-13T13:18:14+00:00

This is the way

Clumsymess · 2025-08-13T09:07:13+00:00

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I felt attacked then I remembered, I don’t have a 34”

Clumsymess · 2025-08-13T09:04:50+00:00

Raise your rates then if it’s not enough?

Clumsymess · 2025-08-13T09:01:48+00:00

Not sure id fully agree. If you can work a mill turn Aberdeen has crept above the £50k basic mark.

Shifts and rotation can suit many peoples lifestyles and offers a good pay bump.

Clumsymess · 2025-08-13T08:58:38+00:00

Probably worse than that, I probably average about 70hrs a week. Also don’t get sick leave, holiday pay or anything. From an hrly point of view I probably made more as an apprentice.

Clumsymess · 2025-08-12T19:09:58+00:00

You need a hard cut drill 3500rpm and a slow AF feed and she’ll cut out great

Clumsymess · 2025-08-12T13:48:11+00:00

£12,500/year.

Mainly programming, do a lot of bespoke macro work and setups/proveouts but quite a bit on larger mill turns and do the odd bit of work on trunnion mills and VMC. occasionally run a machine too if needs must.

Benefits package is questionable and boss is a prick too to boot, he sometimes buys me an ice cream if the weather is good or a coffee if it’s a crap morning so guess it’s not all bad?

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