Mack M75SX

[Dreamweaver]

It's looking good Steve. What size Styrene are you using?

[ihbuilder]

Originally Posted by SmallHaul

Shaping up nice Steve!

Originally Posted by td9clyde

looking great i am likein that truck

Originally Posted by Dreamweaver

It's looking good Steve. What size Styrene are you using?

thanks guys @ Mike I'm using .100

A few more Pics with the sunset






OH Rob the green bottle is the empty 1 :P

[steamer]

That's the first thing I checked. Well done!!!!
Rob

[tc1cat]

Looking better all of the time

[ihbuilder]

I'll be up awhile I waited a long time to do this milling out new frame rails for this beast not the best vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLyOWczx1DQ

[td9clyde]

Nice work on the cab looks good can't wait to see this one haulin

[ihbuilder]

me too Henry gota get it ready for winter for loading the coal hopper

well my butt is draggin today finished up about 4 AM 8 hrs of cutting but then I kept my feed down I hate breaking EM's mid way through I tried to flip it over and do the inside this morning but the stock is a lil out of square + being tired I was running the wrong program oh well enough B.S. pics







back to work

[steamer]

Steve. You knocked that one, right out of the park, and there must have been quite a pile of chips on the floor. The frame on this truck looks like it will be rock solid and heavy duty.
Rob

[ihbuilder]

thanks Rob I got the back milled out just off the mill 30 min ago ( I'm gona get some sleep ) everything went well till the drill cycle for some azz reason my holes are out .125" I should have waited and bored the 2 together manually



the "I" profile




looks like the verizon strike is effecting my I-net

[sneaky-pete]

Nice work Steve....your skills amaze me.

[9W Monighan]

Originally Posted by ihbuilder

thanks Rob I got the back milled out just off the mill 30 min ago ( I'm gona get some sleep ) everything went well till the drill cycle for some azz reason my holes are out .125" I should have waited and bored the 2 together manually


looks like the verizon strike is effecting my I-net

Hmm, Did you forget to take .100'' off from the edgefinder?

Any pictures of your set up on the machine?

[ihbuilder]

Originally Posted by 9W Monighan

Hmm, Did you forget to take .100'' off from the edgefinder?

Any pictures of your set up on the machine?

yes I remembered that other wise the backside pocketing would be off . It may be that when using the cam I clicked on the circle edge and not center I'm not sure you can see it in this vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLyOWczx1DQ
if not I'll take a pic when I do the other side or a trailer frame I'm going to set up . It's basically a fence that I can bolt the stock to .This trailer frame set might take a few days + igot to get more plate for the othe side

[9W Monighan]

Originally Posted by ihbuilder

It may be that when using the cam I clicked on the circle edge and not center

For drilling, I draw points to generate the code .

[tc1cat]

Looking good!! And everyone thinks that running a CNC mill or lathe is just push the go button and everything comes out OK Slowing down the feedrate is not that bad of a thing to do. Recommended feeds and speeds are not all what they are cracked up to be!!!

[ihbuilder]

Originally Posted by 9W Monighan

For drilling, I draw points to generate the code .

yea I just looked it over clicked the circle not the point

Originally Posted by tc1cat

Looking good!! And everyone thinks that running a CNC mill or lathe is just push the go button and everything comes out OK Slowing down the feedrate is not that bad of a thing to do. Recommended feeds and speeds are not all what they are cracked up to be!!!

thanks Lynn , tell me about it I tried to tell my wife that now she gets it , I just never spent so much time at the puter then the machine I cut the recomended feed down by 30% seems to work well I just worked up the next op for those trailer frames with the other frame in it 12 hrs I'm thinking I need to find a water jet guy for the basic profiles

[ihbuilder]

"Any pictures of your set up on the machine?"

Steve , as I promised also this time I decided to use a bigger EM and crank the feed up also the spindle much better time







more tomorrow

[ihbuilder]

well the 2nd frame fell out of the plate this morning about 3 am

[ihbuilder]

walking beams





now these get chucked up in the lathe to turn the ends where the arch stops . there's a pic of it I just got to figure how to get it on here

thanks for looking

[doodlebug]

Hey Steve, are you going to chuck the walking beam's in your 4 jaw chuck? or use a dead center and lathe dog? Center drilling for the tail stock(live center) look's like fun.
Later, Neil#2 aka doodlebug.

[ihbuilder]

Neil , yep alredy done did them last night while I had the mill working on a jig plate for wheels . the old hendy need soom work , the handle where getting rusty