My new Mazak QTU-200MSY is now nearly fully tooled and ready to make parts. The ATS bar feeder installation is now functional, though I’m waiting for a correctly fitting spindle liner. In this photo, I’m using the tool eye to touch off (find tool offsets) for a Becker CCMT polycrystalline diamond insert.
Here’s the very first part (other than test cuts during installation) that I’ve made, a JoWo #6 nib housing. This part was turned from a Mazatrol program, below.
My Brother Speedio is now fully operational.
Last task: calibrating the Renishaw spindle probe. And getting the post to generate the right code, and ….
Though my Mazak QTU-200MSY turning center won’t be here until mid-February, I’ve been working hard on writing a C program on my MacBook Pro to generate g-code for turning collars, feeds and housings. This is the program NC Plot that I use for debugging the g-code before I put it on the machine to make parts.
These four JoWo #6 feeds and housings are probably the final parts I’ll make on my little Roland 4-axis mill. I’m transferring all my effort going forward to making these parts on the Mazak QTU-200MSY. Once that transfer is done, I’ll be able to offer parts in volume to pen makers worldwide.
Three sets of JoWo #6 feeds and housings in clear acrylic along with a red ebonite feed with black ebonite housing. These are on their way to a new home. The clear acrylic parts are a new design that allows the nib and feed to have any desired orientation in the pen.
