You're welcome!

Yep makes me glad I did not buy a Tormach. That is a very cheaply made spindle with no quality control. Good video documenting the problem.

Thank you. Probably more videos like this coming soon.

I just checked my oil lines and one of them did have a lot of air in it after sitting for multiple days, the Z axis gib line. Took about a 90 seconds of manual feed to get oil to it. I'll have to see what I can do to remedy that. I imagine that would have caused lots of excess wear over time. Good idea to check, Thanks!

it is very fit because of air sealing performance

Yeah. It's working perfectly for me now by the way. No more sticking at all.

Agreed. It's certainly worth recognizing that there are some rough edges on machines like this. On the other hand there haven't been too many and, if you're handy, it does provide opportunities to learn how the machine works. It can be tough to decide, really depends on what you want to be using the machine for. For example, if I had bought a nice used Haas with a 20hp 6k rpm spindle I would be kicking myself because the small tools I'm using would take forever and don't need the horsepower.

@@vcedge9466 I've recently bought a Schaublin 225 CNC lathe - which is 400mm between centers (at a stretch) - my use case is tool room prototyping relatively small parts which need good tolerances - the Schaublin is probably overkill but it was at a good price. With a mill , as you say in working with relatively small parts - the ability to use smaller diameter tooling is more important to me than horsepower Tormach have nailed the ease of use case with Path Pilot - and I am fascinated to see how well your tight tolerance requirements (eg in your manufactured bearings) is managed by the Tormach. I am comparing the Tormach to another Chinese made machine with on paper much better specifications in the Syil line at similar prices - down here in Oz we pay roughly 2X the price for the same machine that you guys pay in the US - a Haas minimill or tool mill is about 120K down here and I'm not sure there is much 'value' in that proposition.Pete

The Syil machines do seem to have at least comparable if not better specs on paper at a similar price point. I'm not sure what they're like to work with though. Let me know what you end up with.

That spacer helped dramatically, the tool changes are nice and clean now. With no tool in the spindle I set the space between the drawbar and piston to .030" and have air pressure at 100psi.

No particular reason for putting it on the left. I might move it later on but Its not really much higher than the vise or the pallets I'm putting in it. If it was a bigger 4th axis it would need to go on the right for sure. Since I'm making small things long drill bits aren't really a problem, plus I use machine length drills most of the time.

Thanks! I have literally NEVER used the low belt range. For what I'm doing with small tools there really isn't any reason to use it.

I believe you are correct. They are sending me another nose cone. I'll compare them when I get it.

It was slightly off but also way under sized. It had only .002" clearance on each side. Tormach gave me a new one and it has .004" clearance on each side. No problems with the new one.

A sensor between the pulleys and motor reads a ring that is attached directly to the spindle. you can see it at 3:55

It does not appear to be the case this time. I can tell that the floor where it did cut was nice and flat and the feed rate was double what it should have been.

@@vcedge9466 so strange, the spindle rarely has problem. This is not heavy machining and you don’t cutting hard materials such as titanium, inconel, hss,..

He said the cover was made undersized that's why it touched the spindle. So if that part was to print, there would be no video.

Many push theirs too hard too fast. I guess a spindle load indicator would be a good addition.

@@macmaniacal Yes.....In fact, the early tormach 1100s had a load indicator on the machine. It was a big analog mechanical needle. Haas machine have a lod indicator, but it's rarely looked at...by me anyway.

@@motoflyte I was thinking of just hooking up an hall effect current transducer meant for home automation to one of the phase leads and mount an oled to the enclosure somewhere.

@@motoflyte like a SCT-013-015 wired to an arduino

The load indicator would be very helpful. I recognized I wanted that right away. This guy somehow figured out how to add it right on the screen. I don't see any instruction on how to do it though.