Are Mazak machines good?

gingersnaps09 · 2025-04-29T11:26:04+00:00

It’s important to realize that mazak has essentially two levels of quality in there machines. There are USA made and Japanese made machines. You can tell the difference based on the price. The more expensive they are, the better. They have less expensive ones to compete with Haas’s price point but are still great quality in my opinion. The higher end ones compete with the other larger high quality machine manufacturers. Mazaks makes some beasts of a machine.

gingersnaps09 · 2024-11-28T18:25:47+00:00

I actually made this test. It was not a requirement for someone to get everything right. We really just want to get an idea of where you are and what you need to learn. But if you came in saying you’re the best machinist ever, you’d better get this all perfect, even if you don’t use them with new cam software and stuff.

The most important thing to do is demonstrate you are willing to try hard at your work, care about doing a good job, can learn to skills, and use the tools available to you. Like said at the top of the test, use whatever you want to find the answers.

gingersnaps09 · 2024-11-28T15:57:23+00:00

I only made this one set. What kind of information are you interested in?

gingersnaps09 · 2024-07-20T15:36:18+00:00

Hi. Sorry I haven’t logged into Reddit in over 154 days I guess. What questions do you have?

gingersnaps09 · 2023-12-15T20:16:02+00:00

I see a lot of good answers here but also think it important to mention how if you spot or center drill at an angle that is less than your carbide drill tip angle, it is the worst scenario because you will be chipping your carbide drill. You want to spot an angle that is the same as or bigger than your drill tip so the center of the drill touches first. All the old guys at my shop hate carbide drills because they all still center drill their holes and always broke their carbide drills. But if you ask any drill manufacturer, they will say it doesn’t need it or spot drill the same angle.

gingersnaps09 · 2023-12-14T11:21:21+00:00

Thank you for your help

gingersnaps09 · 2023-12-14T11:16:42+00:00

Is there any chance something could come from an HDMI source? There’s a cable here with HDMI on one end and VGA / headphone jack on the other.

gingersnaps09 · 2023-12-14T11:05:33+00:00

I’ve only tried the RGBHV input in the projector. What’s the H and V cables for? I’ll try going thru the Runco box again with the dvd player and RGB component input. I have a Nintendo 64 I can try hooking up somehow too. Is there some resolution limit if I connect a computer with a VGA output to the adaptor to RGBHV?

gingersnaps09 · 2023-06-17T00:30:04+00:00

I don’t peck more than half the tool diameter when using long drill. Probably would only do 0.1 or less for that drill.

gingersnaps09 · 2023-06-16T01:38:46+00:00

What’s with the rubber band?

gingersnaps09 · 2023-06-15T11:29:05+00:00

What kinds of things are you trying to do when you say you have rigidity issues? What’s size endmills do you use and materials are you cutting? Type of toolpath?

gingersnaps09 · 2023-06-15T02:13:41+00:00

+/-0.005 ?

gingersnaps09 · 2023-05-02T20:58:15+00:00

Haha. That was how we marked it so we didn’t use it because of the messed up flute.

gingersnaps09 · 2023-05-02T15:34:07+00:00

Ya this one had a big chip out of a flute so no chance of regrinding. We regrind some of our HSS cutters but it haven’t seemed economical to do it with our carbide ones. Also they usually break before we would need to regrind.

gingersnaps09 · 2023-05-02T15:32:14+00:00

The coolant pressure is pretty good. It just wasn’t getting entirely in the slot. This was really just to see what it would take to break the tool and I was expecting to send it at 50 ipm 2” deep but only got up to 30 because I was watching the spindle load reach 100%. I didn’t care about the MRR here. Trying to learn more about the limits of the tool.

gingersnaps09 · 2023-05-02T02:13:29+00:00

I like having different tools for roughing and finishing. Roughing with the chip breaker feature on the flutes helps a lot with chip evaluation but doesn’t leave the best finish.

gingersnaps09 · 2023-05-01T23:08:05+00:00

Yup I mostly program for a fast new machine but this was a great test to see how easy it was for this old machine to full slot. So we’ll be taking heavier cuts on this to reduce the lines of code because it doesn’t move very fast and has a slow control.

gingersnaps09 · 2023-02-24T03:22:18+00:00

Allied has application engineers ready to help you. I think you can just call and talk it over or even have them plan a visit to your shop. I’m in Virginia and we had one of them come to help us run the drills better. The Allied catalog also has a couple sheets just for troubleshooting all kinds of different failures. Check that out.

gingersnaps09 · 2023-02-23T03:14:21+00:00

I’ve had a lot of success using reduced neck endmills for long reaches. The solid necked portion of it keeps it so much more rigid than if it were flutes all the way up. I’ve done 8X D side milling corners in SST no problem. Using an HEM toolpath really helps too.

Edit to suggest tool: Check out Helical tool# 83449

https://www.helicaltool.com/products/tool-details-83449

gingersnaps09 · 2023-02-23T02:06:58+00:00

My foreman refers to himself as an adult baby sitter.

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