Simple feed rate chart.

[Illinoyance]

The thread & feed chart on my Nardini is about knee-high. At my age, I hate bending down or squatting. I made the charts in Excel and printed them on letter size sheets. I keep them in a binder on a shelf next to the lathe.

 

[chucksue]

I’m 73 and need to do the same thing.

 

[brino]

The thread & feed chart on my Nardini is about knee-high. At my age, I hate bending down or squatting. I made the charts in Excel and printed them on letter size sheets. I keep them in a binder on a shelf next to the lathe.

My MIG welding machine (Lincoln MigPak-180) has a great chart for work thickness, wire size, shield gas (as inputs) and wire feed speed and voltage (as outputs). The PITA is that the chart is inside a flip-up side cover. I keep the machine on the lower shelf of the the welding bench, wedged in beside the stick, TIG and plasma cutter machines. When I need to open the side cover to check the cart or change spools, I need to put a milk crate on the floor and then pull the MIG machine out onto it.

I've done two things to help:
1) I put a tag with the installed wire size onto the machine handle, so I can see at a glance what is installed, and
2) I took a photo of that chart, and then printed and laminated it and have it stuck with a magnet to my bolt cabinet.

No more crawling on the floor to find the settings.

Brian

 

[RandyM]

My MIG welding machine (Lincoln MigPak-180) has a great chart for work thickness, wire size, shield gas (as inputs) and wire feed speed and voltage (as outputs). The PITA is that the chart is inside a flip-up side cover. I keep the machine on the lower shelf of the the welding bench, wedged in beside the stick, TIG and plasma cutter machines. When I need to open the side cover to check the cart or change spools, I need to put a milk crate on the floor and then pull the MIG machine out onto it.

I've done two things to help:
1) I put a tag with the installed wire size onto the machine handle, so I can see at a glance what is installed, and
2) I took a photo of that chart, and then printed and laminated it and have it stuck with a magnet to my bolt cabinet.

No more crawling on the floor to find the settings.

Brian

Brian, I went one step further, and printed the chart on a magnetic sheet and just cut to size and stick it to the welder. Just make sure you get the sheet that match your printer, Laser or Inkjet, they are different.

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[pontiac428]

Miller offers a wonderful set of slide rules for welder settings. I've seen a few for tapping, but I'd love to find some good machining slide rules for surface speed and feeds, etc... anyone got such a thing?

 

[RaisedByWolves]

Actually I have fairly well stabilized on around 4 thou per revolution. Seems to work well over a large range of materials, speeds and inserts.
No doubt it's not optimal, but it's easy.

Me, too: too much trouble doing manual gear changes on a Mini-Lathe!

Ive seen this on so many small machines I actually thought it was standardized.

 

[brino]

I'd love to find some good machining slide rules for surface speed and feeds, etc... anyone got such a thing?

Hold on, let me dig one out..... there was a post here years ago about a free one I'll find the company and the link...

Brian

 

[brino]

Dang. The old threads pointed to Niagara Cutter, but all currently seem dead:
http://niagaracutter.com/speed-feed-slide

They had this cardboard slide rule for free:


Let me poke around a little more, there may have been another one too.....

Brian