Need some help with overcoming the initial hurdles of a learnjng curve. I’m in a fake it till I make it type situation right now. We acquired most of the equipment that a machine/fab shop would have and most of them, there is plenty of information online to learn from. Except for the horizontal boring mill, and I am struggling. The tooling all needs to be made up for it. Nothing I can purchase direct. The spindle is a MT6. My supplier can only get me reducers to MT5. And setting up parts is quite time consuming.

Any advice or know how on being able to turn a profit on this machine would be appreciated.

The machine is a TOS W100 in mostly good working order. Apart from the boring head dropping 0.020" if I cut in reverse travel after forward travel cutting.

Thanks

  • ganksy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    I found this on YouTube looking for your machine. Maybe you’ve found it too. It looked like a review but the guy goes through quite a few of the ins and outs. It’s a TOS 100A but the only real difference is the travel of the cross slide.

    https://youtu.be/jM0l3HLChG8?si=5NE9NH-Wo6tmdj0Q

    As for how to make money with it, I would imagine construction equipment repair would be a nice entry. Like the kind of work Curtis at Cutting Edge Engineering does.

    Wish I could help you with first-hand experience but I have none. GL!

    • Mpatch@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Thanks! That was one of the first things I watched on that machine. Of all the equipment we got over the past few years, this one was just droped off at the door I didn’t even get a chance to talk to previous operator.

      Yes the work that Curtis does is incredible. And I am in a similar line of work. Just years behind in experience and knowhow.