Machining Billet Engine Blocks

[fluidfloyd]

Ok guys and Mike, this is a link to a motorcyle blog but I think it falls under education. Hope you all enjoy it.

George

http://thekneeslider...o-engine-block/

[media]

 

[one finger john]

Ok guys and Mike, this is a link to a motorcyle blog but I think it falls under education. Hope you all enjoy it.

George

http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2011/02/09/aluminum-block-to-engine-block/

Sorry George, no workee, no video.

Cancel that, Second try the video came up. Wow.

 

[Mike]

This is one of those instances where you can dislike CAD and CNC equipment all you want, but you're still going to end up appreciating the end results. I dread to think what 30 hours of CNC time would equate to, using manual equipment.

 

[putz]

Ok guys and Mike, this is a link to a motorcyle blog but I think it falls under education. Hope you all enjoy it.

George

http://thekneeslider...o-engine-block/

[media]

Haas is really nice equipment they hired my kid to while he was in tech school to run their machine at the Chicago tool show.Trip all paid for.

 

[Allen]

Hi George, I just wanted to thank you for the video on Youtube. It was awesome! My only concern is I wonder if the piece of machinery is made in some place like China and how many people have the capability and the skills to operate the machinery. This is what we tried to teach our kids to do their math and their algebra. I think we're falling behind.

 

[fluidfloyd]

Hi George, I just wanted to thank you for the video on Youtube. It was awesome! My only concern is I wonder if the piece of machinery is made in some place like China and how many people have the capability and the skills to operate the machinery. This is what we tried to teach our kids to do their math and their algebra. I think we're falling behind.
[/quoteAllen,

To the best of my knowledge Haas machinery is still built here in the USA. We have two Hass machines in the shop I'm working at now and they are of USA manufacture. On the other side of that issue....the company ordered a new Jet Flow waterjet system. After getting it delivered we started uncrating it and kept running across Chinese newspapers used for packing small items. I go look at the data plate and guess what? Yep, made in China! Really pissed me off. I will admit that the garnet hopper system and the water pump system was made in the USA but it was never stated in any of their advertising. It wasn't to many years ago that multi axis machines and their technology was prohibited from being sold from China, Russia and like countries. Now we give them anything they want. Big trouble on the horizon. Anyway, glad you liked the video.

George

 

[Old Rotor Flap]

Hi George, I just wanted to thank you for the video on Youtube. It was awesome! My only concern is I wonder if the piece of machinery is made in some place like China and how many people have the capability and the skills to operate the machinery. This is what we tried to teach our kids to do their math and their algebra. I think we're falling behind.

The CNC Mill is a Haas made in Oxnard, California. I'm guessing it's a VF-4.

Many of the shops around here design and program using MasterCam. I'm also guessing they have or used a 4 axis CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machine) or a newer digitizer to input all the X,Y,Z and A points to the CAD program. Mastercam will the plot the tool paths and even speeds and feeds, but still there is a ton of drawing and programing time in that block

I'm enrolled in an on line school called Mastercam U. and am studying to get certified to teach the program. Our local vocational high school has two Haas CNC mills and one Haas CNC lathe and they do teach math in the machining class. It's a necessity as far too many high schoolers come to machining class with almost no math skills and some with not much in the way of thinking skills.

In the video they were feeding a 100 inches a minute at 10,000 RPM... I'm impressed..... even if it was a Ford.

 

[spike]

The CNC Mill is a Haas made in Oxnard, California. I'm guessing it's a VF-4.

Many of the shops around here design and program using MasterCam. I'm also guessing they have or used a 4 axis CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machine) or a newer digitizer to input all the X,Y,Z and A points to the CAD program. Mastercam will the plot the tool paths and even speeds and feeds, but still there is a ton of drawing and programing time in that block

I'm enrolled in an on line school called Mastercam U. and am studying to get certified to teach the program. Our local vocational high school has two Haas CNC mills and one Haas CNC lathe and they do teach math in the machining class. It's a necessity as far too many high schoolers come to machining class with almost no math skills and some with not much in the way of thinking skills.

In the video they were feeding a 100 inches a minute at 10,000 RPM... I'm impressed..... even if it was a Ford.

It was sure great to read about what you are trying to do with Mastercam U. I have been in machining a long time and use Mastercam every day. I'll be sitting there working on some intricate 3d programming and just sit back and wonder how did we accomplish this without solid models? I think the importance/dependancy of this technology has grown, as most, not all, of the young manufacturing engineers of today have become all theory NO reality and couldn't manufacture what they design if they had to. The saddest part of all this is that all students are pushed to go to college and told that vo-tech schools are for dummies. When I went to vo-tech, in 1972, there were 15 kids in the AM session & 15 kids in the PM session with a waiting list. Today at the same school there are a total of 4 kids in the machine trades class. Good luck with your teaching goals. Our industry needs people like yourself to be involved.

 

[RPM]

Here is a link to the HAMB. The guy that makes these block is a memebr there and has posted a lot about the machining of the block. My link