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Originally Posted by artdutra04
And one more thing. Go up in your attic, basement, or garage and dig out all those 3.5" floppy discs, like all those free ones that came with AOL 3.0. Many CNC machines still use floppy discs to load NC programs (these are the programs of G-code that tell the machine how to make your part) onto the machines; the only ones I've seen that have support for USB Flash drives are the larger models, like the Haas VM-3 or VF-4.
When purchasing tooling, just remember that the TM-1 only has a ten-tool changer. Ordering 24 tool holders seems like a bit much.
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All new Haas machines now come with USB.
24 pullstuds can be very useful, even if you dont have 24 holders. Eventually they will wear out or break. Our machine has a 20 tool changer, and I have the entire carousel full, plus tools outside of the machine that I swap in for certain operations, so there is a use for having more than the maximum capacity of you toolchanger.