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Hi can I hire you to make me a set for the fj40

Do u sell them?

How much was the rigging cost you?

great video! very nice review. Also if you haven't solved the chip management issue I saw this solution today on another channel: th-cam.com/video/eZn_xoXf7m8/w-d-xo.html

We use the same work offsets on every program based off the vice it will run on. Take the time to standardize your programming with origin to wherever you want it on the vice in relation to vice. Layout every part the same. Save the headache of touching off every part and possible crashes. Implemented this method after using up all the work offsets on the machine for different production parts and not wanting to start probing every setup. Also handy when you have 7 machines being robot tended with the same vice and jaw setup for quickly moving jobs to different machines. Use G54 thru Gxx to store the master vice offsets then run all your parts on G154pxx that mirrors your master offsets just in case you need to make minor adjustments for op to op blends.

At the end of part 2 you mentioned the next video showing the fab-work on the floor pan. Than the assembly of the pan to the inner fender walls. Well I can’t find that video. Help

Wow, that's awesome. I enjoyed the content. I just got appointed to learn this machine for employer. I heard you say you learned a lot from TH-cam and the internet in general. It would be awesome if you could share or point me towards some content that helped you to set up your tooling. I am also going through the tutorials on Mastercam University

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Hi Chris. You may not be a great machinist yet but You are learning the trade every day. You look to me like You are really doing good. I believe you are being way to hard on yourself about all these things. I have been self employed since 1982 and man I still feel I am learning and still don’t have all the answers. Just try and keep things as simple as possible and keep working thru your jobs. I am just building my 3rd shop and probably my last but I still can’t think of everything. It just takes practice and a ton of dedication. I think You are doing awesome. Thanks for the video

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We have a vf4 and vf4ss with 24" Z option. Z will change with temp. We write by hand, no posting from Cam. Fun and more fun. Dry run tools above Z zero to keep from crashing. Have you used a programmable part stop? Curious if that is still used.

I got a VF5SS and the mist condenser, and found it to be straight TRASH. If you are doing anything light, it works ok. But if you are hogging material and the coolant atomizes and vaporizes due to a hot end mill, that smoke and mist will leak out the machine leading to very unhealthy air. I invested in a true mist collector with HEPA filtration. Your lungs will thank you.

What a shame we didn't get to see more. Looks like a serious 4WD 👌

Haas has never been good at chip management. I own a couple of machines starting year 2000 and newer, they actually got worse over time. Best thing I've ever done is mimic the large horizontal machining centers and add a second pump and spray bar to either side of the cabinet. It takes about 15 gpm per side and at least 4 nozzles on the vf3/4/5 cabinets and the chips will be continuously washed down to the auger. A standard shallow well pump works great and has good pressure. I modified my post processor and use an m code and machine output to turn on the pump relay whenever a program is running. The spray bar is high enough on the back wall that I can point a nozzle at each of the X axis way covers and prevent buildup there also. Best thing I've ever done to increase productivity in a haas.

You need to check your axis lubrication system before its too late. The purple grease used by hass gets clog inside the lines.

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I got a VF4 SS at my work a little over 1 1/2 years ago. Great machine. One thing that you should do, take the plunge and get a rotary 4th axis. I got the HRT-210SS. Once you figure out how to program a 4th axis you won't go back. It is awesome. The probing is a must to have. Honestly that should be standard on the machines now.

Those donuts and pvc spacers kinda suck, although they are very easy to make.

Do you know what the Haas part number is for the spindle liner adapter you used is? I am interested in setting up a bar feeder on my st35y but have been told by Haas I cant do it...

Saunders Machine works has a free file on their website for 3d printed brackets that prevent chips building up in the machine.

I wish you would let me give you some music ideas sir! 🤣

I used a 2015 VF-3SS for six years. It wasn't hard to hold a tenth in XY. Z would move a little with thermal expansion, +/- .0005" was about the best I could rely on in Z. Get the machine professionally laser calibrated, it goes a long way.

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Buy once cry once indeed, as our Uncle Bumblefvck likes to say.

Very cool. What steel grade, 1018?

Nice work my man.

I commend you for putting this content out there, I have been thinking about doing the same so people can make an informed buying decision. Any new machine will have some quirks but Haas has several and it's annoying because most of the problems are easy fixes, it boggles the mind. They musty be hiring engineering students right out of school, large brains but no sense.

Good points. I agree about the concrete, do your research and if you can pour a thick slab for it it would be worth the investment. The rigidity it provides will impact your machines capabilities. A lot of machine sellers won't bring this up because they want to make the sale. I have a love/hate relationship with Haas machines. I have been in the machine shop trade for over 20 years and worked with Haas quite a bit, along with several other brands, and if it were me, I'd buy a Doosan over a Haas any day. Price wise they aren't too far apart but a Doosan will run circles around a Haas. I'm all about made in USA but when it comes to CNC machines, the best ones (mostly) are made overseas. Also Haas engineering has really gone south, cost cutting with cheaper materials, locking out parameters so you have no choice but to use their c\service techs instead of fixing it yourself, and the lubrication systems they changed to are complete garbage.

Cool shop tour, we have similar machines in our shop, I felt right at home.

Sometimes I think I would have a lot more fun in a fabrication/ machine shop then in a normal production machine shop.

As a common shop, I would suggest you to get Haas shrink fit machine and holders, they are cheapest on the market with decent quality.

have you thought about an modular table on top of your vf4ss table? they very good to reduce setups

How much does it cost for this machine?

Wish I could justify $7K/mth for machine payments. Some slow months that might be all we make. No products of our own only job shop of myself and my 71 year old father.

Love the idea of having a Tool Holder for Every Tool. Downside ?? Cost and, Where to put the Holders, LOL. I like the angled tray I guess you could call it under the Controller. Just a little concerned with Coolant wet hands, dripping all over everything that is sitting on this tray ?? Looking forward to your next video, in regards to how you make use of Lean Manufacturing in your shop. Work Smart, Not Hard.👍

Cool video! Music is questionable but cool video!

I laughed when you called a haas lathe a mill turn lol, not a fan of your haas machines but I'm jealous of the Amada's

cool shop fellow job shop!

Always looking for that 1 video/channel, you can watch that makes you want to stay and watch More. Definitely got me Very Interested to see more of your channel. Subscribed of course. Looking forward to following along, and hopefully more videos in the future. Peter 👍

Definitely heading in the right direction if you can do Everything in 1 shop.

You can make a bushing rod for smaller material. Make the rods ID the size of the small stocks OD. With two big sections of the rod slightly smaller than your through bore with some o ring grooves in the two OD spots. Haas also sells these if you didn't wanna make them. They slide right in and right out and can be changed easily.

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The radius on the jaws are standard and yes are horrible for turning something under 5/8 dia. Get yourself a Royal QC collet system. Best thing I invested in for my ST20ssy. If not invest in some soft jaws and bore the smaller radius in them.

You mentioned that there is no way to run the parts on the VF4 that fast in that qtys in a cost effective method for the customer. I am not trying to be an ass but there is a way, Just trying to be helpful. You are only doing 1 side of a part at a time in a vise. Check into Pierson Workholding and look at their pallet systems. I will tell you right now that it will increase production because you are able to run multiple parts per tool change. Taking out multiple tool changes and rapids from cycle start to cycle start out of the run will decrease your time per part. Mock it up in the CAM system and see what the program estimates for time for each way of doing it. You have the table space to do it this way so might as well. Another machine to look into for production is Haas's DT/DM series. If you need help just let me know.

My machine was less accurate than a Chinese machine from brand new, would Last a few months then something else was wrong. Had to sell in the end as even HAAS wouldn’t buy it at used machine prices. That statement speaks for itself.

Nice, can we get the river at the back door sorted before the next new machine 🤣

Where did you go with this series? Are you retailing or manufacturing any panels for the 40? I NEED!

Man, thats some awesome conduit in the background.

Thanks for the info.