My daily shop log.

11/30/2009

Got back from Thanksgiving to nothing set up on the machines. Today is going to be a busy day. My day started at 5am and the first thing I have to do is start cutting material for job J256. I set the saw to cut 2 ½ x 1 ½ aluminum bar to 5 1/8 long, I need 50 plus pieces. Next I have a quick chance to check my emails and Facebook. I need to set up my Haas VF2 first, simple set up job J256 op1 set of step jaws in the Kert vise and an end stop and 7 cutting tools touched off top of part, upper left corner is zero.

Set-up 2 was on my Okuma Lathe. Face and chamfer, drill and tap a 5/16-18 tap hole .75 deep. This set up took about a hour.

Set-up 3 was on the Haas VF1, special jaws to hold part on end. OP2 of J256 5 tools, zero is set at the .25 dia. hole. Set up took about a hour and the cycle time is 3.5 minutes.

Set-up 4 was OP2 of the Okuma part on Haas VF3. Part is held in a Kert vise with standard jaws and an end stop. Zero is the end and center of the bar. Spot drill and drill 2 holes. De burr and clean part is ready to ship when complete.

Received some good orders that are do the 14th of December.