60 HP MAKINO Horizontal | Machining Titanium | 1st CUT

Hey, what's up everybody? This is Titan, Titans of CNC. I'm here in front of our new A81NX Makino. It is a beast and guess what? We're going to cut some chips for the first time today. Got a big old chunk of 6004B titanium. Let's make it happen. Alright, so now we're going to actually take the tombstone and we're going to actually place it on the pallet. Before we do that, we just want to be very cautious. I want to make sure that there's no high spots. In all likelihood, this is perfect and the tombstone is perfect because there's a crazy amount of workmanship that went into both, but you just never know. So as machinists, we're just going to do due diligence. We're just going to stone it, right? We're not putting any pressure on it. We're just allowing it to go nice little figure eight and we're just knocking down any high spot. Anything that's lifted up, we're going to knock it down. We're going to do it to the pallet. We're going to do it to the tombstone and then we're going to clean it. We're going to double check with our hands. We'll make sure everything is absolutely perfect. So when they mate, there's not even the slightest chip in place, dust, nothing. It just has to be absolutely perfect. If you had the smallest chip that was as thin as a piece of paper, it would caulk the tombstone by like three thousandths, right? So we just want it to be absolutely perfect. Once the tombstone is in place, we're going to take M16 bolts and we're going to start locking it down. But there's even a strategic move here because these stops right here are precision and they're perfect. So we don't want to lock the tombstone straight down first. We just want to get it close and then we want to take these guys and start snugging them up from the sides slowly, boom, boom, so that we can ensure that the tombstone is perfect and flat to this surface. And once that's done and it's snug, then we'll start snugging everything else up and then we'll lock these guys down and then we'll lock the tombstone down and we can ensure that everything is perfect. Once the tombstone goes in, we'll indicate the tombstone, see if we're off and if we're off a few thousandths or a few tenths, we'll make an adjustment at that time to make sure across X and Y everything is just dialed and perfect from the initial setup. Again, if it's off in the slightest, every single setup you will ever do will be off, all right? So it's very important. So Jeff just indicated the tombstone, made some adjustments, we put it in the offset so it's absolutely perfect. Now we're going to take the tombstone and we're going to rotate it back out to the front and we're going to install the Schunk Rota S-Flex 550 Things to Beast, boom. All right, so we're locked and loaded. We got the Rota S-Flex 550 from Schunk locked and loaded onto this beast of a tombstone and now we're going to load our material. So the material itself is a 150 pound beast of a piece. It's 15 inches in diameter. So I measured it, basically brought this out more. So we're going to use a forklift right now. I don't have a crane but we're going to get one. All right, so we're going to load this thing. TMS Titanium, thank you for helping us with education. So we looked at the specs on the Rota S-Shock and it calls out a max of 120 newton meters so that's exactly where we're going because this guy's a beast. Boom, there we go. Baby's in there tight. Ah, so beautiful. One thing I'm super impressed with the engineering from Schunk on this guy, they actually have a gold pin over here and if you don't actually torque this bad boy correctly, the pin will be sticking out of the chuck. But as you go tight and you dial it in and everything is engaged perfectly, the pin goes in and then it's nice and plush and that means you did it correctly. All right, so we got the material locked and loaded. This is raw stock, right? So raw stock is always oversized. It's not absolutely perfect. You actually had a saw that cut this 15 inch diameter. It's important to pre-opt the material. So this is what we're going to do first. We're going to actually rotate the tombstones, get this inside the machine. We're going to actually put an indicator on and make sure that we know exactly where the low spot is. Then we're going to probe that low spot and go about 25 thousandths below the lowest part of the material. And then we're going to skim it with a Kenna Metal dodeca cutter, big old four inch, make this surface perfect. We're going to drop down with a Kenna Metal Harvey 3 end mill. It's got six spools and then we're going to cut the diameter to 14.95. This pre-op that I actually programmed in Mastercam is going to actually make it perfect and perpendicular so that we can flip it back out, flip the part around and actually when we hold it the second time to do the other side will be locked onto perfect material. The thickness will be perfect. When you step into aerospace, when you step up into high tolerances, when you're coming in with high feed rates, you got to make sure that you're work holding your material. Everything is perfection. All right, you guys ready to do this? We'll flip it around. Oh, we just took our first cut with the Kenna Metal dodeca, the four inch shell mill. And I just stopped it because there was a lot of coolant. I just wanted to see it. So it was a roughing cut. I was about middle of the road on that guy and I just want to check it out. Nice. Absolutely beautiful. All right, let's continue. Boom. And there you go. Titanium chips. Success, brother. So we faced it. We profiled it. We're going to take it out. We're going to flip it. We're going to lock it onto this perfect surface that's nice and perpendicular. And then we're going to go to town. All right. So the next video, we're going to actually start machining a crazy part. All right. You guys have a great weekend. I'm out. Jeff, great job. Boom. Proud of you, man. All right, you guys take care.