I spent the afternoon in the shop after I decided to tap the centre hole of the fixture M4. The fixture was completed quickly and I moved on to work on the M4 screw to fit the task.
Being off the CNC mill for so long, I was a little wary. Went through the BobCad simulator several times before committing to the job. The GCode was transfered to the workshop PC, which is still running Windows XP. After painfully setting up the work and checked through several times again, I hit cycle start... Midway through the program, I saw something that shouldn't happen, the wheel was turning in the fixture! I did what I shouldn't do, using my fingers to hold the wheel from turning...
Anyway, the wheel came out bad. I'll have to re look at workholding before continuing with this job.
Pics time...
Being off the CNC mill for so long, I was a little wary. Went through the BobCad simulator several times before committing to the job. The GCode was transfered to the workshop PC, which is still running Windows XP. After painfully setting up the work and checked through several times again, I hit cycle start... Midway through the program, I saw something that shouldn't happen, the wheel was turning in the fixture! I did what I shouldn't do, using my fingers to hold the wheel from turning...
Anyway, the wheel came out bad. I'll have to re look at workholding before continuing with this job.
Pics time...