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Re: CNC Equipment and Tooling recommendations
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Originally Posted by Gray Adams View Post
I don't disbelieve that you got the numbers that you did, but it certainly shouldn't be expected behavior from a machine like this and a dimension like that should take numerous attempts to dial the machine in. I wouldn't think twice if you told me you got that from an Okuma or Mori Seiki.
It's not clear whether those CMM values were for one part each or for a run of parts...but I would be absolutely shocked if you could consistently (without constantly chasing offsets) hold .0003 on a run of parts on a Tormach.
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