Hello, I'm Mike Corliss from Tormach. today I'm going to show a quick setup...
...using a Kress high speed spindle in a right angle attachment.
Here's the right angle attachment. When we mount the right angle attachment,
it clamps to the spindle...
...nose like this. Then what we're gonna do is...
...indicate this surface here, this machine surface here...
...where the Kress clamps onto, to make sure that
the right angle attachment is square with our...
...machine axes.
That's pretty good. There's a little bit of a lip on the hole where the indicator hopped,
but the side walls where the...
where it's going to clamp on the nose of the Kress is true.
So, finish tightening or clamp.
Double check.
Yup, looks good.
Now to find the center of our workpiece.
I'm going to use an...
...end mill shank and a piece of paper.
You just slide the paper between your workpiece
and that this could be a dowel pin, end mill shank,
whatever you have handy.
And you just...
...keep moving your table until you feel a light drag on the paper...
...between the tool and the workpiece.
Right there.
When the paper moves free,
We'll zero our Y axis.
Do the same in X.
Click in the box. Divided by 2.
And now we have our Y axes center.
And then you could do the same for Z. And then you'd have the center of your workpiece,
or wherever you've programmed it from. The one other thing you will want to do...
you're changing the work-plane that you're working,
so if your programming at the controller,
you gonna want to make sure you're using the right work-plane.
G-seventeen is your normal
XY work plane, when you've got a tool in the spindle...
...itself. When using the right angle attachment...
...you are going to want to use a G-nineteen because you are...
...going to be machining in the YZ plane for doing straight line moves it's...
not that important but if you are doing any arcs the only way it turns out...
is if you're in the right work-plane.
For straight line in positioning moves it's not as critical.
but if you're going to be doing any type of arcs...
the radius center require that your in the correct...
work plane. If you're using...
...cam software it should...
...flip it automatically for you. What you are going to want to use a
high speed spindle on the right angle attachment if you get some light cuts,
if you have real long workpieces you can't machine...
if you can't stand them on your mill because here all you have to do is
clamp it on your vise and have enough room
to get you spindle to the end of the workpiece.
and it can be hanging on the other end of your machine, however long,
as long as you have it supported.
That's it? That's it.