#garfield Logs

Feb 20 2025

04:36 PM rue_shop2: Tom_L, maybe I should send you some of these chips bits you can try out your feed rates and tell me how hard they can be pushed :]
04:49 PM rue_shop2: <aluminum>
04:49 PM Tom_L: what bits?
04:49 PM rue_shop2: china HSS
04:49 PM rue_shop2: $1ea
04:50 PM Tom_L: with coolant
04:51 PM rue_shop2: fits in 1/8" collet
04:52 PM Tom_L: i use holders, not collets
04:52 PM Tom_L: it's too small
04:52 PM rue_shop2: oh right
04:52 PM Tom_L: spin the crap out of it
04:53 PM rue_shop2: I cant get chip load, cause its not helping me with doc
04:53 PM rue_shop2: and I know too much doc and it breaks
04:53 PM Tom_L: doc 1/3 to 1/2 D
04:53 PM rue_shop2: but I also dont ahve coolant
04:53 PM rue_shop2: well they break about 1mm doc. which is 1/3...
04:54 PM Tom_L: fix the chatter
04:54 PM Tom_L: that's what's doing it
04:54 PM rue_shop2: no no, I'm talking on the new machine
04:55 PM rue_shop2: the old machine chatters and opens up the slot 0.4mm, which makes it fit...
04:55 PM Tom_L: try .0005" chipload @3500 rpm
04:55 PM rue_shop2: so I'm doing a spiral on the new machine
04:55 PM Tom_L: and half that on a plunge
04:55 PM rue_shop2: hmm, I should write a calculator
04:56 PM rue_shop2: but I need something that accounts for doc too
04:56 PM rue_shop2: cause these bits are too thin and long for the normal math
04:56 PM rue_shop2: so it seems
04:56 PM Tom_L: use fswizzard and go on the light side of it's recomendations
04:56 PM Tom_L: bbiab, gotta go do something quick
05:17 PM rue_shop2: sucks when someone passes away and you think of all the things you forgot to tell them
05:21 PM rue_shop2: ma went in for surgery this morning
05:22 PM rue_shop2: almost everyone I know has died in an *event* at a hospital
05:30 PM aandrew: I'm sorry rue, it's tough when a friend passes
05:57 PM rifraf: your mum is still ok though i hope rue?
05:58 PM rifraf: sounds like you have lost someone else recently, my condolences, people seem to be going all the time now
05:58 PM rifraf: guess it means we are not spring chickens anymore
05:59 PM rue_shop2: she was supposed to phone I dont know
05:59 PM rue_shop2: I need to call in and check
06:02 PM rifraf: ok hope it all goes well, i am out for the day, off to see Kif and me grandson for the afternoon, and oxsta
06:03 PM rifraf: i think you did meet me cousin
06:06 PM Tom_L: grandpa already :)
06:10 PM rifraf: yep he is nearly three, and always wants me to bring tops and gadgets
06:11 PM Tom_L: it's your duty to spoil him
06:12 PM aandrew: that's awesome
06:24 PM rue_shop2: I had a branch clock me in the face today, turns out it left a good scratch
06:28 PM Tom_L: that sucks
06:29 PM Tom_L: your mom still on the houseboat?
06:29 PM rue_mohr: yup
06:31 PM aandrew: have you been able to confirm your mom's recoering well?
06:48 PM rue_mohr: she just called, she's ok
06:49 PM rue_mohr: I was just about to start the telephone hunt thru the hospital
06:57 PM Tom_L: missed the bit about surgery... hope she's doing good
06:57 PM rue_shop2: recovering under monitoring
06:58 PM rue_shop2: damnit
06:58 PM rue_shop2: the problem with the rpm meter was a broken wire
06:58 PM rue_shop2: I'v completely rebuilt the whole damn thing
06:58 PM Tom_L: i fought that on my pendant for a long time until i brought it inside where i could see good and found the loose wire
06:59 PM Tom_L: sometimes worked fine
07:03 PM rue_shop2: the last step was the take the cable off the old pickup
07:03 PM rue_shop2: and a wire was broken
07:04 PM rue_shop2: not sure how, I had it ziptied to not move
07:04 PM Tom_L: my pendant used an old parport cable and those wires are small
08:18 PM rue_mohr: I can plug mine into a computer to work with my NC spooler program, but have not done it yet
08:25 PM Tom_L: they're pretty handy
11:08 PM rue_mohr: ok, garbage day tommorow
11:27 PM rue_mohr: https://bsky.app/profile/ruenahcmohr.bsky.social/post/3lio2jfoy5k2f
11:28 PM rue_mohr: new cnc slotting the 'last" 4 latches
11:28 PM rue_mohr: tomorrow I'll see if the vibration finisher still works
11:28 PM rue_mohr: probably change the motor AGAIN
11:40 PM rue_shop2: I have a bad habbit of always only using the newest cnc machine