{"id":2530,"date":"2012-11-11T00:30:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T06:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thmsblog.com\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2015-05-03T19:41:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T00:41:01","slug":"taig-wrench-cnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/?p=2530","title":{"rendered":"Taig Wrench CNC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I shot a video this weekend showing a Taig spindle wrench being milled on my Taig CNC mill.<\/p>\n<p><div class='jwplayer' id='jwplayer-0'><\/div><script type='text\/javascript'>if(typeof(jQuery)==\"function\"){(function($){$.fn.fitVids=function(){}})(jQuery)};jwplayer('jwplayer-0').setup({\"height\":\"380\",\"width\":\"640\",\"listbar__position\":\"none\",\"repeat\":\"false\",\"stretching\":\"exactfit\",\"primary\":\"flash\",\"image\":\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/llO375gM4EI\/0.jpg\",\"file\":\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=llO375gM4EI\"});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>For best viewing go to YouTube and view in HD full screen 720p. WOW! I used my Sony Alpha NEX-5 With it&#8217;s HD wide screen video ability. The raw full HD footage is spectacular but I had to edit down to 720P for YouTube. Here it is much less than that (around 360p). I don&#8217;t like the handheld movement and focus changes but it was easier than working around the tripod. I need to use the tripod&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Here are some stills. I had enough aluminum to make 9 wrenches on this run.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>This wrench was actually one of my first projects with the Taig mill many years ago. I was using different software and controller but the results are the same. I also put a label on the handles of the original wrenches. I may do\u00a0something\u00a0similar on these new ones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/cms\/projects\/taig-wrench-set\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/cms\/projects\/taig-wrench-set<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This size wrench is just the right size and the soft aluminum (compared\u00a0to steel) prevents damage to the spindle and collet nut. My originals show a little wear but are still going strong.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the video for now!<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Update 5\/3\/15<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Today I just cut 6 more of these wrenches. I checked out the proper feeds and speeds in CNC Cookbook GWizzard and got each\u00a0cut time down to 6 minutes, 40 seconds. Now running 19 IPM feed at 10600 RPM, plunge 10 IPM and DOC is .0377 or seven round trips. Big chips and a beautiful cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shot a video this weekend showing a Taig spindle wrench being milled on my Taig CNC mill. For best viewing go to YouTube and view in HD full screen 720p. WOW! I used my Sony Alpha NEX-5 With it&#8217;s HD wide screen video ability. The raw full HD footage is spectacular but I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[138,89,140],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cadcamcnc","tag-cnc","tag-milling","tag-taig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/77778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}