sorrelcreek
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Looks good geoff your going to be happy with power feed and you got a good price.
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Power Feed
- Thread starter Alexander
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Geoff you work fast! In glad the install was an easy one for you. Post a picture of the boring bar you used. I was just saying. At yesterday's meet up that the busy bee brazed on carbide boring bar's don't work for anything. It is possible in not using them right?
Geoff
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Hey, I am using the same style of boring bars from BusyBee. I think I bought them from KMS though but they are essentially the same. The only thing that I do to them is give them a quick hone using a diamond stone. I also use a CCMT insert style boring bar and custom ground HSS boring bars. But I have had really good results using the cheap brazed on carbide boring bars. I actually use them fairly frequently. Here are some pics of the boring bar setup (nothing special) as well as the bushing that I made. Hopefully you can see the finish of the bore from the picture. My finish cut was .006 (.012 Total).
Peter, there is a pic of the power feed attached to the end cap of the mill table (picture #3). In the picture, I only have 1 screw installed but there are 2 screws. I ended up drilling and tapping two new holes for M6 cap screws. I wasn't overly thrilled with how things were fitting with the existing holes that were slightly out of alignment. You can probably see in that picture that 2 of the mounting holes have been enlarged. I did that to compensate for the misalignment of the mounting holes on the mill table end cap. As mentioned, I drilled two new holes and they line up much better! Very happy with the fit now and it works very good!
Peter, there is a pic of the power feed attached to the end cap of the mill table (picture #3). In the picture, I only have 1 screw installed but there are 2 screws. I ended up drilling and tapping two new holes for M6 cap screws. I wasn't overly thrilled with how things were fitting with the existing holes that were slightly out of alignment. You can probably see in that picture that 2 of the mounting holes have been enlarged. I did that to compensate for the misalignment of the mounting holes on the mill table end cap. As mentioned, I drilled two new holes and they line up much better! Very happy with the fit now and it works very good!
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Geoff
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Well I got a chance to run that AR400 through the mill today using the power feed. Incredible difference! I'm not sure how I have gone so long without any power feed on the mill. I can dial my feeds and speeds in perfectly since I have a 3 phase motor on my mill with a VFD. I can tweek the RPM and the power feed until I get a smooth cut with a very nice chip load. Needless to say i'm very happy with the unit Alex.
On a separate note, this AR400 is so strange to mill. It is magnetized so the chip that comes off is like a spiky waterfall in slow motion...lol... I couldn't attach the video so I put it on Dropbox. Weird!!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/656d5x88skfguka/Video 1-24-2016, 3 15 16 PM.mov?dl=0
Cheers!
On a separate note, this AR400 is so strange to mill. It is magnetized so the chip that comes off is like a spiky waterfall in slow motion...lol... I couldn't attach the video so I put it on Dropbox. Weird!!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/656d5x88skfguka/Video 1-24-2016, 3 15 16 PM.mov?dl=0
Cheers!