Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Auto Tool Changers - EMCO Rotary Table

Hi Brian,

I hadn't thought of that. This is all a little crazy, but if you
consider the Sherline machines to be made up of "modules", then there
should be some more ways to put 'em together, especially if the parts
are CNC!

Alan KM6VV

Brian Pitt wrote:

>
> Bill ,Alan
>
> one other unplanned feature you get using a rotary table on the cross slide
> is that you can still program it as a rotary table and not just as an indexer
>
> I've seen one of the new machining centers use this on one of the slides to
> poke a curved boring bar into a small starting hole and use the combination
> of X,Z and the rotary axis motion to bore the ID to a much greater size than
> would normally be possible using a standard bar and X,Z alone
> (sorta like hollowing out a bowling ball thru the thumb hole)
>
> Brian