i trained on haas, but the last two shops ive been in have been okuma, which are a lot more rigid than the haas mills i ran in school and the programming and setup are almost identical except for how they call offsets. afaik the only controllers out there that are weird are the mazak and hurco (conversational machines), most everything else is either built by or modeled after fanuc.Same here. Programmer\Machinist... You guys use HAAS?
arty:
every fadal i've seen has been a huge pile of
, i ran two of em the first job i worked, and the little one had the x-axis servo just fall off one day, seriously, all the bolts (4x 1/4-20 cap screws) backed out and the whole servo and encoder was just hanging by the harness. the gibs on that machine also loosened/wore so bad that the table visibly shook with anything bigger than a 3/4" drill bar, and chattered in the 1-3 o'clock positions on a cricular interpolation no matter what you did, not that it really mattered since non of them can interpolate a full true circle anyway. but at least they were easy to clean out, and you didnt have to be a short japanese person to get in to empty ridiculously small and hard to get to chip bins like all the okumas i've ran (seriously, theres no way to clean those things out without getting covered in metal unless you're less than 5' tall).
You realize I now HAVE to figure out what you do? Damn it man, why'd you have to make it feel so importantSocial media policies at my workplace dictate that I cannot associate myself on social media with my employer.
But I may be represented by one of the little guys above. Definitely not the finances to have an expensive hobby, but me and my family are blessed and provided for.
Joe
