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    Amada ITPS Promecam help

    From memory, I think it is menu 19, Pass is either 14753 or 15963, whichever isn't the one for the EMA DA42
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    Small slot problems

    that worked a treat, not hard to do with Radan and way quicker than Bysoft, I realise my desrciption above isn't the clearest, attached is the tool path, starting in the middle and going clockwisehttp://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=ba399da2-642f-42a9-8998-bf099adba2da&file=7_slot.bmp
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    Small slot problems

    yes Henry, UK also, the job was a bit of a fancy thing for an exhibition which (thankfully) never took off, I have an idea to use a "7" shaped cut in the centre of the slot to keep the initial pierce away from the edges of the slot. The vertical of the "7" would be the initial pierce going from...
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    Small slot problems

    We had the same problem with 15x2.3 slots, Bysoft does have a feature to divide slots but we found it too time consuming to use as we did Bysoft in general. The Bystronic Engineer seemed quite pleased with the fact that it ONLY took an extra 7 minutes to divide one in three of the slots on one...
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    Where can I find a laser cutting service?

    I dont know where abouts in the UK you are, but as an ex Amada service Engineer, there are a couple I can think of with bags of experience that are really helpful, Colin at E Teq near Dumfries will bend over backwards for you, further South, John Dent Engineering in Isleworth are very good, but...
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    Cutting Polycarbonate/PEEK

    We do a lot of polycarbonate on our 4KW Bystronic and previously on our 2KW Amada alpha, 1.5mm and 3mm cut nicely with only slight discolouration on the 3mm, 6mm is a little ugly but fit for purpose. What thickness are you trying to cut? Also is your extraction system suitable for plastics? bag...
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    Adaptive bending press brakes

    Hello all, hope this is in the right place and that someone can help me out. We currently have 4 Amada press brakes that we use for bending mostly steel, but an increasing amount of copper busbars. The copper is flat bar, up to 200x10mm and I thinking about another press brake with adaptive...
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    cutting plastics on a mits 2000 W laser

    Also be careful if you cut steel then plastic then back to steel, bag type extraction systems will catch fire. This happened to us twice, we had to change to a wet extraction system. That said our old 2KW Amada LC Alpha used to handle up to 6mm polycarbonate, softer nylon type plastics were a...
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    Trumpf or Bystronic ?

    We have had a Byspeed 3015 since September last year, brilliant machine when all is well, but we have had 3 new servo drivers due to a bad batch of tachogenerators and broke ceramic nozzle bodies for fun at £186 each. Be sure to ask about the cost and frequency of replacing the glass in the...
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    Laser cutter transmissive window

    we had a similar problem cutting woven mesh on our Amada LC alpha, 2 solutions, that particular machine has a contact head with ball bearings that push the sheet down. The other was to make a picture frame jig, ie 2 sheets with big cut outs in, sandwiching the material to be cut, we hinged ours...
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    close pitched slots on 4.4KW Bystronic

    It is only 6 months old, I have spoken to apps about it and they didn't mention any fix, do you know what the fix does and I will quiz them a bit further
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    close pitched slots on 4.4KW Bystronic

    Our Radan software wouldn't let me try what I wanted so i had to manually add a cut through the middle, that worked well but I have hundreds of these slots so I am still looking for a better solution. I did have better results using a long lead in on the radiused end and approaching on a radius...
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    close pitched slots on 4.4KW Bystronic

    We have tried tagging and it is a bit of a non starter, the part is a door and on show, the "sprog" that the tag leaves when the slug is removed is a bit obvious, especially when painted. I was thinking of using a longer lead in of about 2mm and starting the cut on the long edge, then when it...
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    close pitched slots on 4.4KW Bystronic

    We have some groups of small slots (2.3mm x 15mm) pitched 2.3mm apart on 1.2mm mild steel. When we cut, quite often a slug doesn't drop through the hole and sits up on the sheet so when it comes to the adjacent hole, the height sensor detects the slug instead of the sheet and focusses too high...
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