Need some help with overcoming the initial hurdles of a learnjng curve. I’m in a fake it till I make it type situation right now. We acquired most of the equipment that a machine/fab shop would have and most of them, there is plenty of information online to learn from. Except for the horizontal boring mill, and I am struggling. The tooling all needs to be made up for it. Nothing I can purchase direct. The spindle is a MT6. My supplier can only get me reducers to MT5. And setting up parts is quite time consuming.

Any advice or know how on being able to turn a profit on this machine would be appreciated.

The machine is a TOS W100 in mostly good working order. Apart from the boring head dropping 0.020" if I cut in reverse travel after forward travel cutting.

Thanks

  • ganksy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    I found this on YouTube looking for your machine. Maybe you’ve found it too. It looked like a review but the guy goes through quite a few of the ins and outs. It’s a TOS 100A but the only real difference is the travel of the cross slide.

    https://youtu.be/jM0l3HLChG8?si=5NE9NH-Wo6tmdj0Q

    As for how to make money with it, I would imagine construction equipment repair would be a nice entry. Like the kind of work Curtis at Cutting Edge Engineering does.

    Wish I could help you with first-hand experience but I have none. GL!

    • Mpatch@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Thanks! That was one of the first things I watched on that machine. Of all the equipment we got over the past few years, this one was just droped off at the door I didn’t even get a chance to talk to previous operator.

      Yes the work that Curtis does is incredible. And I am in a similar line of work. Just years behind in experience and knowhow.

    • Mpatch@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Yeah i crashed it like 3 times already. Does that make me a seasoned veteran? Lucky me it cones with a cutout clutch that has saved , the work, machine and my pants.

      Right now It’s less so questions as more of I don’t know what I don’t know.

      Tool angles and geometry Is one, is carbide viable for one of these or should I be using high speed steel for boring?

      For speeds and feeds do you use the general rules as you would for turning or milling or something else?

      Work holding fixtures any recommendations on what is essential to have at the ready? Most used ?