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Magwell bevel.
No. Slides and frames are difficult. Slides need a gun drill to do the barrel tunnel and frames can’t be machined 100%. A gun drill is basically a long cutter that has coolant flowing in it so you don’t heat the crap out of what you’re cutting.Ever machine an entire frame or slide from bar stock??
Yes. Tapers are cool. I’m going to start adding a taper to all my slides. Weld ups and new guns so the slide is tight in battery but has a thou or 2 of free play when cycling.What Control? 2 or 3 axis? I fit an ejector the other day in the frame. I programmed a taper and took .001 on the nose side until the slide started to clear the front of the ejector. Once it cleared the nose I moved the back side .001 at a time until the slide went all the way on. It worked really well and came out nice. It’s pretty handy to be able to program a taper or a radius.
You will always need to be able to turn handles in this business. Just make your machine that has handles turn them for you sometimes.Very nice, I'll never live long enough to not still be hand cranking lol..Congrats guys...no reason not to go automated when you can.
yep.....much respect for the craftI'm with july19,no clue what you're doing but love the end result!!
I understand 100% I used to run one of these for eight years until I changed jobs, five axis cnc lathe with 30 station tool changerNo. Slides and frames are difficult. Slides need a gun drill to do the barrel tunnel and frames can’t be machined 100%. A gun drill is basically a long cutter that has coolant flowing in it so you don’t heat the crap out of what you’re cutting.
You need a broaching machine to cut breechfaces, magwells and trigger tracks. Not all operations can be done on a CNC. Especially my little 2 axis machine.
15 degree.Glad to see you guys advancing and improving your processes. Hope you still plan on selling carbide tooling because your cutters are the best.
What angle of cutter are you using on that magwell, it looks great.
My last 20 years of my career was spent working for the largest cutting tool manufacturer in the world providing turn key tooling packages for CNC machines many like the Multitasking machines Okuma Multus, Mazak Integrex, DMG MORI NT and CTX series and others.I understand 100% I used to run one of these for eight years until I changed jobs, five axis cnc lathe with 30 station tool changer
could make damn near anything you could dream of on it with my Mastercam software.
Also had a dual head Multus B400 which was much larger
Loved CAPTO holders, they’re awesome and both lathes used C6 but some tools only came in much smaller sizes.My last 20 years of my career was spent working for the largest cutting tool manufacturer in the world providing turn key tooling packages for CNC machines many like the Multitasking machines Okuma Multus, Mazak Integrex, DMG MORI NT and CTX series and others.
Our company was the innovator of the number 1 spindle interface for these machines named CAPTO.
It was a fun and rewarding job selecting all the tooling for a wide variety of customer components and seeing the project thru to the finished product on one of these machines. All aspects of machining are involved.