Tormach PCNC440 ~ Premium Package with ATC Setup Lessons Learned
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- Lots and lots of lessons learned with this video. I focus a little more on the lessons learned then on the step by step setup. There are a lot of great Tormach guide videos on the step by step setup and I'd encourage anyone whose doing this to watch those as well. I cover in this video various points in the setup for me and some of the tips, tricks and mistakes I made along the way. Enjoy and let me know what you think in the comments.
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Never understand why people are so salty and want to leave negative comments about someones experience with new machinery, like chill y'all. that be said THANK YOU for sharing your experience! currently building my 440 up and this was a great help....the instructions seems to leave out some key details here and there.
Thanks for doing a walk around of the 440. Really helped me decided on getting it.
If you want your machine to last, you shouldn’t mill wood. AT ALL.
Wood is abrasive and if it gets into areas where it is hard to reach, it will wear out your precision ways and leadscrews and make your machine close to useless. It is meant for metals and plastics ONLY.
When a tree (wood) grows, it pulls water out of the ground, which contains minerals (rock). We know that rocks are hard and sometimes used to make abrasives (sandpaper, for example). Machines that are used to machine wood are designed to minimize metal to metal sliding parts as much as possible to keep wear to a minimum.
If you REALLY need to machine wood, keep a vacuum nozzle as close to the cutting area as possible to catch all the sawdust you are making - and vacuum (not brush or blow) the entire inside the enclosure every time. Sawdust allowed to accumulate will stick to any of the lubricated areas of the machine and be much more difficult to remove. ESPECIALLY DO NOT USE compressed air to remove sawdust. It’s probably the worst thing you can do to any machine. It will drive the particles into places where it will be impossible to remove without completely disassembling the machine.
Great advice. You should watch the video I did for my ceramic engraving fixture.. Since making this video I haven't milled anymore wood and the the mill was vacuumed judicially after use. Thanks for taking the time to write a detailed comment. 👍
The very first project that the manual tells you to make, is cutting a pine 2x4.... and if molecular sized minerals supposedly hurt the sliding parts, probably shouldn't ever use coolant either then huh...
nah to everything you said, these machines mill CF,G10 and many other more abrasive things than wood, there are no rocks in wood LOL
@@joearledge1 dude cut wood that dudes comment was bull
@@jasonluhmer4792 only thing I have run into(aside from tormach and the 440 sucking hard from day 1) is dust management with wood. Doesn't hurt anything, just a hell of a mess.
Make your own brackets. Practice on small easy stuff in scrap aluminum.
Have you seen the tile engraving fixture I made. Let me know what you think of that. It helped me get my feet wet in machining and welding aluminum.
How much does one cost ...I'd love a 440. How much is a 770. I not really have lot of extra $$ but Good Idea starting off with wood
Tormach.com will let you build out an order and see what it would cost. The barebones mill is pretty cheap. But, tooling up a mill, vices, fixtures etc can get a little pricey.
how ya still liking the 440, I'm looking to purchasing this machine
Still using it almost daily. Recently machined a custom sized shaft coupler to
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Awesome. Ya need to post an update
YT deleted my comment that was critical of tormach... not sure why...
I still see it, maybe somethings up with the refresh of your browser. TH-cam will categorize comments for content creators as "held for review", your last comment hasn't been placed there and as far as I can tell is still viewable.
@@GarageScience good morning, huh, that's odd, maybe it is just on my end then... oh well. Thanks for letting me know
buy fanuc in first place. save tormach price lol . if you any they upgrade. i told u so
What kind of oil is in your way lube pump? Doesn’t look like way oil.
Probably tormach brand canola oil... looks just like the stuff that came with my machine
@@joearledge1 68, it's way oil. Very similar to Vactra 2, I had to replace the way oil pump to a better one, that poor quality pump they shipped with my 440 would not work. I put a Bridgeport lever pump on mine.
@@larrykent196 yeah, tormach is a pretty big POS. It's like the harbor freight of the machining world
@@joearledge1 I wanted a Hass Mini Mill for the garage but that was too big for the space I have. Owned Okuma, Mori's Mazak machines in my past. I know these are toys, expensive too for what they are. Not a machine to make a living with, but I am retired it makes what I want. I have a knee mill I use most of the time this just handles the odd stuff one might need a CNC for. I do agree surely not top of the line or even on the line. Cheers!
Only thing I can say with positive criticism is to get your feed and spindle speeds right. In this video spindle speed is way too fast and the feed rate is way too slow. You're not producing good size chips only dust that will heat up your tools and cause flaking of the timber. You can find speeds and feeds online for all types of wood. The wood you're using in the video is possibly the worst type to use. It's very soft but has strong strands. All in all looks like a good machine though.
Workshop looks like its been prepared for a serial muderer!
you truly are a person with more money than experience
Ooof. Chill my guy, it's called financing before interest rates went bonkers.
How do you get experience but by trying, bob? I also had more money than experience when I was delivering pizzas and completely broke. That did not stop me from bettering myself. I hope you don’t gate your savings, brokerage account(s), or ambitions based on the level of experience you judge that you have!
Not everyone wants a HAAS VF2 as their first machine Bob
The fitting is metric ffs!
Wood will also destroy tools
Even carbide won’t last very long in wood.
How do you figure? I mill wood for hours on my cnc router and my carbide endmills last forever. Almost no wear whatsoever. As far as I know as long as you're keeping a decent chip load and not rubbing, carbide should last extremely long in wood.
@@cameronnorth70
How do I figure?
I have been a machinist, toolmaker, and cabinet maker for almost 60 years.
I have seen the evidence time and time again.
How long have you been using these tools?
@@jlippencott1 Easily 30+ hrs on a single 1/4 2flt with no signs of significant wear, not taking conservative cuts either. I've also been machining in the aerospace industry for 6+ years and have never encountered anyone in my shop ever talking about machining wood until I decided to buy my own hobby machine. There are entire industries dedicated to cnc milling wood, look into avid, shopsabre, laguna, axiom... etc, and I've never once heard complaints of carbide tooling by the people in this space. I understand why you wouldn't want to run wood in a machine with a flood coolant system but I have to push back on the whole "Wood will also destroy tools" statement. It absolutely will not.
Sorry sir but I think you are wrong. Milling wood doesn’t wear out tools any faster than milling metals.
And, yeah…cutting wood isn’t the best thing to do.