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How are you making the vials?

Nice knurls on the vial covers. Was that done with a cut knurling tool?

Ed

(05-06-2016, 06:01 PM)Vinny Wrote: [ -> ]How are you making the vials?

Hi Vinny,

We make the acrylic vials shown in the pictures with the knurled cap.  

As far as the holders go, I'm not sure if we do or not.  We make many variations of vial holders and a limited amount of vials.

(05-06-2016, 06:36 PM)EdK Wrote: [ -> ]Nice knurls on the vial covers. Was that done with a cut knurling tool?

Ed

Hi Ed,

Yes, those are made with our cut style knurling tool.  We've had it for a few years now, and have it pretty much down to a science now with knurling.

The tool is so simple to use, it literally takes about 60 seconds to set it.

I meant how do you make the acrylic vials, or do you just do the machining (cutting, threading) with premade tubing?

Controlling dust during the deburring process of sawcut material blanks, and in process machining of parts between operations can be a real pain in the butt as we all know!

For years we have lived with the mess and the constant cleanup that follows every job being deburred in this manner.


FINALLY!!   I have purchased a dust collection system that we are in the process of installing............to be continued............


Here's our deburring bench.  

From left to right,

4" x 36" Horizontal belt sander used for deburring sawcut blanks before going into the machining centers.

1" x 30" Vertical belt sander for various small part deburring.

8" Bench Grinder - Heavy Duty Braided Wire Wheel on one side for steel, and medium grit snagging wheel on the other.

.6 Cubic Foot Capacity Vibratory Tumbler with Ceramic Media for light to medium deburring and polishing.

.2 Cubic Foot Capacity Vibratory Tumbler with Plastic Media for light deburring and polishing.

4" x 36" Horizontal belt sander with scotch brite deburring belt for deburring and polishing.

As you can see the bench gets quite dusty and gets covered in short order.






So here was my project a couple days ago.  A new dust collection system.





Now that's it's all together and running successfully, time for the tubing to be rigged up to the machines.

(05-06-2016, 06:50 PM)Vinny Wrote: [ -> ]I meant how do you make the acrylic vials, or do you just do the machining (cutting, threading) with premade tubing?

Hi Vinny,

It's acrylic tubing that we thread, cutoff, reverse and thread the opposite end.

Pretty easy peasy!

Here's a recent video of our new Samsung MCV400 Vertical Machining Center in action.  This is machining some C1144 Stressproof Shafts.  Drilling and tapping 1/2-20 hole 1.310" deep, and c'boring a .502" +.0005"/-.0000" c'bore .560" deep.  Finishes up by milling some flats along the sides of the 2.250" diameter.  Just bought this new December 2016.

Enjoy!

Very nice Russ,

Did that replace an existing machine or did you manage to shoehorn it into your existing layout? Also, when milling, were you running air/mist through the coolant lines? I can see when you used flood coolant but other times I saw nothing but heard air.

(04-03-2017, 06:08 AM)Mayhem Wrote: [ -> ]Very nice Russ,

Did that replace an existing machine or did you manage to shoehorn it into your existing layout?  Also, when milling, were you running air/mist through the coolant lines?  I can see when you used flood coolant but other times I saw nothing but heard air.

This is a new addition to existing machines. We now have three vertical machining centers.

When drilling and tapping the machine coolant was being used.  When milling the coolant shuts off and the air blast is activated.  

Very nice machine.  Will be even better once we figure out the control and programming issues.  

Having run and programmed nothing but Haas machines for the last 13 years, there's a significant learning curve we're faced with, and I'm not liking it one bit!  LOL

Later,
Russ