An illustrated reference manual and an online video guide you step-by-step through the installation process. The manual also has illustrated instructions for operating the MACH-1 system with a wide range of tooling. The Mach-1 Two Axis Step Pulley System contains the same components as the two-axis package with an actuator cap that allows the full use of the back gear lever. The Mach-1 Start-up System contains the basic components and hardware that you need to upgrade your milling machine to the speed of Mach-1 Tooling.
Read More. Drop us a Line Call us at Send us an Email. There are two main challenges with doing this:. I ruled out hydraulics early because I really didn't want to deal with them.
I decided to go with pneumatic for two reasons:. My first thought was to put a pneumatic cylinder in line with the spindle and press on it directly. Although this would be easy to build, back of the envelope calculations show that the air cylinder would need to be at least 6. You can get the air cylinder size down by using multiple smaller air cylinders in parallel. This is known as a "multi-stage air cylinder" and is what the tormach does for its power drawbar.
Between tooling and material cost it didn't make sense to make my own, and Alibaba wouldn't have cut it because I wanted a power drawbar now. The saving grace for this problem is that the high force only needs to be applied over a relatively short distance. Taking into account all of the tolerances I estimated that I would need about a half inch stroke.
This means that a smaller force air cylinder with a long stroke can have its force multiplied with some kind of lever. This is a great solution in principle, and there are serveral designs based on it floating around the net. The only reason I didn't go down this path is that I couldn't find a configuration that I really liked on terms of comapctness.
Thinking about simple ways to amplify force there is another obvious way to do it. This is so obvious I am surprised that I have never seen anything like it before: use a wedge. I really like the novelty and elegance of the wedge so it is what I ultimately went with for my design. The only real downside to the design is that it is a bit more complicated mechanically than a simple lever, though it packages really nicely. Thread: Sharp Sv sv manual tool change. Thread Tools Show Printable Version.
Has anyone figured out how to do a manual tool change in a Sharp vmc with Fanuc control? I have a project using long drills and boring tool and can't load them into the tool changer carousel. I have not found a way to manually load the tools, other than perhaps leaving an empty pocket and setting the machine to op stop. While this works, the op stop occurs at every tool change.
Have you tried to do an MDI tool change to T17? Not sure on fanuc, but my milltronics TC macro knows that if you call a tool greater than what the changer holds then it is a manual tool change.
I can use up to 99 tools but my TC only holds Originally Posted by cbchris. Modify your post processor and dedicate a pocket to manual change tools. TheBigLebowski , sportbikeryder liked this post. As Rick also suggested, I use tool Number 1 as a dedicated swap tool. I handle the toolchange logic on the cam side which looks like
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