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Started by Monsterlover, January 31, 2011, 03:39:33 PM

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Speeddog

#1440
October 23, 2015, 04:05:20 PM
400 HP lathe?
Did they say it was a big block or small block?
[laugh]

Makes me flash on that scene in one of the Indiana Jones movie, where large round things are pursuing him.
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Monsterlover

#1441
October 23, 2015, 04:17:14 PM
Quote from: ducpainter on October 23, 2015, 04:00:41 PM
Did you order yours? ;D

When I was putting my time in as a wire monkey we converted a mill from generator power to the grid.

They had two machines with 500 hp motors...I forget what they did...but logs became something a lot smaller in not much time.

That's really cool.

500hp motors are huge.

Quote from: Speeddog on October 23, 2015, 04:05:20 PM
400 HP lathe?
Did they say it was a big block or small block?
[laugh]

Makes me flash on that scene in one of the Indiana Jones movie, where large round things are pursuing him.

:D
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ducpainter

#1442
October 23, 2015, 04:57:49 PM
The wire runs from the vault to the main panel were 4 parallel runs of 750 kcmil, look it up, about 30 feet long. Each run had 3 conductors. The cuts from the supply house were all wanted to lug around since there were 16 hunks of it. I had them all rolled out in the lot ready for the pull...and the loader needed by...that sucked.
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Monsterlover

#1443
October 23, 2015, 05:19:11 PM
That couldn't have been expensive.
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ducpainter

#1444
October 23, 2015, 05:22:26 PM
Quote from: Monsterlover on October 23, 2015, 05:19:11 PM
That couldn't have been expensive.
They didn't share numbers with the slaves. ;)
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ducatiz

#1445
October 23, 2015, 06:20:55 PM
Quote from: ducpainter on October 23, 2015, 04:00:41 PM
They had two machines with 500 hp motors...I forget what they did...but logs became something a lot smaller in not much time.

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ducpainter

#1446
October 23, 2015, 06:24:53 PM
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triangleforge

#1447
October 23, 2015, 06:38:11 PM
Actually not that far off from reality...



I think I visited that plant when I was in high school, about a hundred years ago. Watching a 3'+ diameter douglas fir peeled down to a 4" core in about 30 seconds was as impressive then as it is now.
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Monsterlover

#1448
December 10, 2015, 02:56:05 PM
Some light milling today.

When the camera shakes, it's because I'm being burned alive by stray chips that are smokin' hot.

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ducpainter

#1449
December 10, 2015, 03:01:54 PM
Run out of coolant? ;D
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Monsterlover

#1450
December 10, 2015, 03:10:33 PM
Tools last longer dry
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ducpainter

#1451
December 10, 2015, 03:15:00 PM
Quote from: Monsterlover on December 10, 2015, 03:10:33 PM
Tools last longer dry
Soooo...

why is there coolant?

Material considerations?
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Monsterlover

#1452
December 10, 2015, 04:19:41 PM
Quote from: ducpainter on December 10, 2015, 03:15:00 PM
Soooo...

why is there coolant?

Material considerations?

Are you asking why it's used at all?

Some materials and tools require it. Drilling for instance, especially solid carbide drills that flow coolant through the tool itself. It clears chips from the flutes and cools the cutting edge.
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ducpainter

#1453
December 10, 2015, 05:22:04 PM
Quote from: Monsterlover on December 10, 2015, 04:19:41 PM
Are you asking why it's used at all?

Some materials and tools require it. Drilling for instance, especially solid carbide drills that flow coolant through the tool itself. It clears chips from the flutes and cools the cutting edge.
Thanks for the education...

I'm not smart enough to differentiate drilling and milling. ;D
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Kopfjager

#1454
December 10, 2015, 05:25:58 PM
That things awesome.
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