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Machining Videos Here you can find some videos of some really neat machining processes. Check out the very automated Okuma, it pumps out parts without even a button pusher! Gang-Type Lathe is really cool as well. It's different than the tool turret you normally see. "Chess Piece" is neat, they make a chess peice out of metal very quickly. Diamond Swiss Type Lathe is extreemly cool, b-axis and gang type. Anyways, check it out and read the descriptions. The videos: Lathes: 
This lathe turns down a peice of steel. The tool moves in the groove of the shaft down and up as the crank shaft turns. Pretty neat. 
Gang-Tool Type Lathe, this is different than your regular tool turret. The tools move up and down instead of the rotating tool turret. Fast rapids too. 
Another Gang-Tool Type Lathe, nice machine. 
This one looks like a gang type setup, although... 
An interesting brass part turned and uses live-tooling, ends up looking like a door knob. 
Its a big piece of metal, but I've seen bigger. The lathe is pretty big too, its a manual lathe. 
Machining a chess piece with a lathe. 
Very Automated Okuma - this lathe picks up parts and chucks them, then puts them back in the storage place, it doesn't even need an operator! Milling: 
High speed machining of aluminum. Milling an aluminum enclosure. 
Milling On A Manual Lathe. Ok, I'm not going to ruin this for you if you don't know how this is done, watch the video. 
High speed machining aluminum. 50 HP, 40,000 RPM, 164 FPM, machine capacity 40 tools, need I say more? 
Have you ever seen a whole engine block machined out of a solid block of metal? Check it out, when chamfering the cylinder holes, the whole table rotates the part around the tool to produce the chamfer. Wow. Precision Machining: 
They put sensors on this bald guy's head, then create a solid model or something of his head. Then they machine a bust of his head from solid metal. Pretty cool. 
This is kind of boring, so you can fast forward to the end if you want to see the finished part. It is a cool part. 
This is boring too, but it its milled with what looks like some pretty close finishing. The tolerances must be pretty tight and judging by the shape of the surface, I could only imagine how many lines of code this program has! Other: 
Usually the denfinition of a lathe is the work turns and the tool stays in the same position. With milling the work stays in the same position and the tool turns. This lathe however, the work does turn, but the tools don't move, at least not as much. The work just comes out from the chuck (B-Axis) for OD turning... interesting. 
This guys shows you how to drill a tiny orifice in a piece of brass rod, he actually chucks the tiny drill in a hand held drill holder and peck drills, neat. |