I thought some of you might be interested in this. Maybe not or maybe so. LOL
I wish I were taking vacation time off that I have to use and working on my race car but this has kept me really busy at work.
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I have a new lathe. Dual spindle with live tooling. 8" main, 5" sub, 2 1/2" through hole, 20hp DNS Solutions 2100LSMB Lynx. Also the wrapped unit in the pics is a Universal brand cobot for lights out operation. Still waiting on my LNS Quick Load Servo 80+ bar feeder to get here. All this will allow me to feed raw bar into the machine and completely finished parts will be unloaded. Many of our parts would have 2 lathe operations and 1 or 2 mill ops that this will do itself. More work with less people.
Should have it up and running next week.This message has been edited. Last edited by: CURTIS REED,
December 08, 2023, 09:29 AM
Big Steve
Nice!! Years ago I was a Maintenance manager for a company that made rubber bonded to metal shaft rollers that went into printer cartridges. All our cnc lathes were magazine bar fed. Once they are loaded and running the operator just sits there and read magazines and check a part every now and then, back then there was no cell phones or internet
December 08, 2023, 09:37 AM
CURTIS REED
I have 2 other lathes with bar feeders but they don't have live tooling. They also run unattended but a guy does have to empty the parts catcher occasionally.
This new lathe when we aren't using the cobot it has a parts catcher-conveyor that will move the finished parts to a larger container.
This makes my 8th cnc machine in the shop.
December 08, 2023, 07:42 PM
BP758
Y’all are toolin up! Very cool!
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December 09, 2023, 07:19 AM
Bucky
Well done!
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December 12, 2023, 08:35 AM
wideopen231
You suck and meant most jealous way possible,.
Good looking machine.
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December 12, 2023, 10:52 AM
Curly1
Very nice, the stuff those things can do is amazing.
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December 12, 2023, 02:44 PM
CURTIS REED
quote:
Originally posted by wideopen231: You suck and meant most jealous way possible,.
Good looking machine.
I knew what you meant. LOL
Thanks. I'm excited to get it running.
December 12, 2023, 02:49 PM
CURTIS REED
This weeks project was this. Same size and shape as our regular brass plumb bob but made of aluminum, anodized blue and the logo, grads and numbers are done with my laser. It makes them white, they aren't painted. We are going to make a bunch for the company shown to give away as gifts.
The laser has been fun to figure out how to run the software and get what you want from it.
January 13, 2024, 10:12 AM
CURTIS REED
We are getting there. Bar feeder is supposed to be installed Monday. This was my last week. I hope this shows up okay.
