Great Dane excavating co.

[Cooper]

Originally Posted by tc1cat

About how much machining time do you have in 1 axle? Your machining is outstanding!!

That is a hard question to answer, many parts,,, with wheels, probably around 12-13 hours? But I'm still learning and playing with numbers. Like the axle extension part that I.d. Of bearings slip over I had 1.5 hours in machine time. But now getting specs on insert and cutter I can probably drop that down to 45min. And another tool path I was using cutting speeds same as rapids and that took a 1hour program down to 30min. But I'm not breaking or pushing things. Lots to learn for a simple mind like me. And lots to improve speed up on. But I'm not trying to speed things up as in a production environment but just hate to see slow movements when tools are not engaged in a cut. . And after the initial program was proven to do what intended. The bearing pockets were a few trial/error and sneaking up on proper clearences to get them a snug hand press fit. Wasn't using a boar tool just path and the tollarances on machine are pretty good. I'd say I get a good 80% score mark all way around bearing pockets. Good enough for me .