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Beginners CNC Lathe Operator

Duration: 2 days.
Date: See course dates
Times: Start 9.30am Finish 4.00pm
Location: Nottingham England UK

£600 Plus VAT two days

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Beginners CNC Lathe operator

This course is designed for complete beginners and covers CNC Lathe operating for absolute beginners.

It covers the basic principles of CNC Turning and tooling used on a CNC Machine. It gives an overview of the turning process.

It also covers the basic measuring instruments used in CNC Machining.

It is strongly advised that you take this course before the basic CNC Turning Programming course if you don’t know the basics or have concerns.

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You Will Learn

About machine axis X And Z

The Turret

How tools change as the turret indexes how you select them and the safely.

The Chuck and the Spindle

Learn about chucks and chuck jaws, soft jaws and hard jaws, jaw pressures and how they affect the work-piece. Spindle speeds and what effect they have on the machining process. What is soft jaw boring? Why and how we do it.

Ways Of Setting Tools

Auto measure and cut and measure are different ways of setting tools depending on circumstances.
How machines need to know about the tools, the radius of the insert and where the tool is in relation to the machines turret.
How we adjust tools once they are set to get the component correct.

Tooling

Explanation of different tools and what they might be used for.

The right tool for the job is really important, there is a vast choice of tooling on the market today but fortunately there is loads of help out there in finding it.