I learnt a Bridgeport specific lesson yesterday, it was free too

Spent an hour trying to figure out why my G55 offset I had set up for a groove in my almost permanently mounted vise had shifted about 50mm in the Y. Totally stumped, tested it, tried adding new offsets, these all worked, co-ax indicator on a mounted shaft showed 53mm shift in Y only

It wasn't until the penny dropped that i remembered sliding the ram out to get a better position in readiness to machine my sub-table - D'oh!

So, that got me thinking, offsets are pretty much useless on a flexible machine like the Bridgeport - any movements in the head will instantly wipe out all offsets saved and if not remembered, could be expensive in bent tooling.

The one that WILL bite me is the semi-auto manual tool change on the engraving head - this uses a fixed touch-plate to gain the height offset and its location is stored in the setup pages.

Need to put a large sign on the head-shift bolts i think.

or a jack in a box with a boxing glove on a spring that shoots out and bonks you if you do stuff wrong

am I allowed to say bonk anymore its been 35 years since i lived in the UK

LOL, yes we still bonk

Showing your age folks.......

BTW, it's good to use these words as the latest generation dose not know what your saying and one can enjoy that look
on their faces.


RICH

It's all relative!