Enjoying your videos, nice to see someone else's order of ops. Regarding replacement windows, I recently replaced the plastic in my 2012 VM2. $320 shipped from Tap Plastics. Polycarbonate Abrasion-Resistant - Clear 2 pcs - 1/4 (.236)" Thick, 20-5/8 inches Wide, 32-3/4 inches Long, Color: Clear - 139 I used the same material in my Haas MiniMill 3-4 years ago and it still looks great. One tip is that I very rarely ever touch the plastic, spray it down with coolant and then spray dry with air. Seems to keep the scratching to a minimum. I'm looking for some new gripper jaws and was curious what type you're running? Leaning towards ordering some Serra jaws from Anderson Mfg. After years of picking up offsets on back left corner with a 3D taster I'm curious what the advantage is to using model center as your doing with the probe. Hope to add a Renishaw soon. Thanks for sharing!
That’s not bad for the windows! Does tap plastics cut them to size for you? As for gripper jaws, the Andersons are great, I have two sets of them that I use strictly for stainless flanges and they have been perfect, I also use them on my orange 4” vices for my 4th axis tooling, they are great quality. The jaws in this video are from Durus manufacturing and are also great quality but a little more money then the Anderson’s. However stay away from Gorilla jaws, they are total garbage as the gripper teeth are not hard enough and deform very quickly.
As for the probing of the center of the block it’s just easier to not have to make offsets from a corner to get the material to clean up because your work is automatically centered in the stock. That being said if I was edge finding the comer WCS zero would still be easier. If that makes sense.
@@linderpowersystems_LPSFAB Yes, the plastic has always come accurately cut to size and well packaged. Highly recommended. Thanks for the feedback on the gripper jaws.
Thanks for sharing! I’m going to watch this in detail tomorrow
Enjoying your videos, nice to see someone else's order of ops.
Regarding replacement windows, I recently replaced the plastic in my 2012 VM2. $320 shipped from Tap Plastics.
Polycarbonate Abrasion-Resistant - Clear
2 pcs - 1/4 (.236)" Thick, 20-5/8 inches Wide, 32-3/4 inches Long, Color: Clear - 139
I used the same material in my Haas MiniMill 3-4 years ago and it still looks great. One tip is that I very rarely ever touch the plastic, spray it down with coolant and then spray dry with air. Seems to keep the scratching to a minimum.
I'm looking for some new gripper jaws and was curious what type you're running? Leaning towards ordering some Serra jaws from Anderson Mfg.
After years of picking up offsets on back left corner with a 3D taster I'm curious what the advantage is to using model center as your doing with the probe. Hope to add a Renishaw soon.
Thanks for sharing!
That’s not bad for the windows! Does tap plastics cut them to size for you?
As for gripper jaws, the Andersons are great, I have two sets of them that I use strictly for stainless flanges and they have been perfect, I also use them on my orange 4” vices for my 4th axis tooling, they are great quality. The jaws in this video are from Durus manufacturing and are also great quality but a little more money then the Anderson’s. However stay away from Gorilla jaws, they are total garbage as the gripper teeth are not hard enough and deform very quickly.
As for the probing of the center of the block it’s just easier to not have to make offsets from a corner to get the material to clean up because your work is automatically centered in the stock. That being said if I was edge finding the comer WCS zero would still be easier. If that makes sense.
@@linderpowersystems_LPSFAB Yes, the plastic has always come accurately cut to size and well packaged. Highly recommended.
Thanks for the feedback on the gripper jaws.