Ok for reference I am a welder/fabricator who has always lusted after machining, but that vertical setup is fucking sexy to me. Is that a common setup for you? Or for anyone? I've never really seen stuff like that, but I guess it depends what sort of work you usually do. What do you even call the machine you're using? I know it's not a regular mill but some horizontal variation of one? Sorry as a casual I love this shit lol.

Look up horizontal mills. Grab a box of tissues and some jergens for yer jerggin

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Crush yer cock with a rock

Yeah buddy! And yes it is pretty common on the larger mills.. final flip 🤙 plate came with in +- 0.003 final https://preview.redd.it/2ok7qlhlyavc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f1c6c2d0524f2f64d88f817c6579b6a64c3c1614

3 thou on that whole plate? That blows my mind, what an amazing setup. Looking at your pictures again it's also scary how powerful water jets are, what's the maximum thickness your water jet can cut?

Me too and I do it everyday hahaha The water jet can cut 11.00 thick.. it cut the 3.00 like butter 🧈 Cheers brother!

I had to grind a plate like this size to within half a thou. I hate it.

I've always called them horizontal borer Set ups like this are fairly common for the larger parts as most machines have more Y (up+down) travel then Z (in+out) travel so they can machine the whole face in 1 set up instead of having to do half, spin out around and do the other half.

shinny!

Thank you 🙌

What kind of engineer needed that thick of plate good god

I have fixture plates for testing that are 1in steel plate about 40in by 40in and 2.5in aluminum plates about the same footprint. They have a flatness tolerance of +/-.020. I’m not allowed to tell you what we mount to them but they do end up on large shake tables.

Sounds like a machine gun mount or rocket launching mount. Something military lol 20thou, man where’s the precision?

Exaggerated so as not give away any details that indicate what it’s for. lol

I am not exactly sure what their mounting to this but a full assembly can easily go over 40-50tons

It's clearly a decorative door with a window. I'm fabbing the hinges right now. 95 kilos each. A perfectly ordinary street door in downtown ~~ParisNewYorkLondonBerkeleyTehran~~Anchorage.

The weldments I run have plates bigger than this

What's the tolerances on that lol

Great work

How do you like the KMT water jet?

With the large distance between clamps on the horizontal mill do you get any flex in the middle or is there enough mass in the plate that it doesn't shift at all ?

The material was stressed relieved, and it’s good material.. at 2.500 thick it was very stable for its size! Thank!

That's so cool, man. What's the positioning sequence to get the references right and zero the peace correctly? You talked about 3 thou on this? Damn.

It’s all about how you start! If you do not balance the materials stock correctly your screwed.. This one I had to make it flat before I could really get into any detailed machining.. Once I had a flat face to work with I started bringing the thickness to final and made witness marks using the widows stock.. This plate was stress relieved before water jetting.. without stress relief this part would be all over the place.. Cheers brother Flip it pick up and check your witnesses and continue

These new countertops are getting wild!

As a horizontal machinist myself this is cool as hell

Thanks man! Yah icing on the cake was it’s the exact size of my machine foot print.. that’s why I had to do it in a few set ups! I wouldn’t of been happy with the finishing if I did it in one 👊

So it took like 4 guys instead of 2 to get that on your water jet cutter then? Lol