It's great to see someone other than the otherwise great Langmuir guys cut with this thing. I'd watch some more. Ciao, Marco.

Woo hoo. Finally some cutting. Thanks mate.

Can't wait for mine to arrive.great content would really like to see more videos of it running and how to set the programs up

Awesome work

Not boring at all. Nice to see some real-life, real-time uncut MR-1 machining. This certainly helps us imagine what it might be like when our machine arrives. Please consider recording and uploading more when time allows. Assuming you had more than one of these to make, would it have made more sense to bandsaw out rough sizes before you started on the first piece?

@Jim-cc3my

Жыл бұрын

Yes that is how you would do it. This is a good guy to watch and learn from. His procedure and method are sound.

the only thing I wish Langmuir offered was a spindle upgrade with tool holders, rather than collets. My nomad has collets and if was to spend the money on the MR-1 i would love to be able to just setup tool offsets once with holders rather than having to probe tool height every time i change a tool like i do now.

I just purchased an MR-1 I'm worried about breaking tiny tools like the one you're using. I'm happy to see it's possible to run them effectively. :)

Thanks for all; you work uploading these videos mate. One thing I think I’ll do is place a piece of wood or hi-density foam under the tool probe when inserting or removing. Just cause Im a fumble fingers sometimes.

52 seconds from where you said start the timer till tool touch off. Not bad at all. The second tool change was closer to 45 seconds.

@ryanwykes

Жыл бұрын

ha. Thank you sir.

Compared to the ww2 era bridgeport that was in my H.S machine shop back in the late 2000's, this thing is a space ship. A real revolution for the independent free thinking inventor, or for looney-tunes like me 😁

Could you talk about the realistic milling volume of the machine given tooling / work-holding installed on the machine?

That gantry looks quite good and rigid. Maybe one day I'll try to copy it to my DIY CNC 😅😁 Keep uploading please 🤓

@ryanwykes

Жыл бұрын

The machine is incredibly sturdy and rigid

@BryanHoward

Жыл бұрын

Go for it! It's one of the things I like on the MR1

Thanks for making the videos. I would movie the camera higher will help with the coolant spray.

It's been a while since this video was posted. How is the MR-1 holding up? Can it cut stainless steel?

How are your dimensions turning up compared to the nominal? Ciao, Marco.

Not bad. I've been looking at this gantry type machine. Seems rigid enough. Couple questions, why machine the part so far back in the corner, seems hard to reach and requires so much travel to get to tool setter. With that, axis travel speed during jog moves seems slow. Maybe that can be set higher. Thanks for sharing.

Did I see that right, the Z axis uses trapezoidal positioning? Seems like an odd choice or am I missing something?

@MrMachineTX am in MR-1 group and cant find stl files for blue prob raiser you have. ?

What is the max clearance from your vice to the bottom of the spendal mount? Is the machine any good? Why did you go with the MR-1 vs a Tormach? How are the tolerances on your finished parts? How is the rigidity of the machine.

@ryanwykes

Жыл бұрын

Spindle to vise is not very high. 6-8 inches I believe. But 99% of the parts I ever make are not taller than that. MR-1 has excellent spindle torque, rigidity, accuracy, repeatability. It’s price point is quite inexpensive and it installs easily in a garage. There are a few luxuries it lacks like a tool changer or chip removal solution, but I’d rather have reliability in a robust machine than a lot of features with poor performance

Ohhhh Issa big 🙃 I like it. This in your house or what. I want a big machine in my shop, still looking at options for something about this size.

@ryanwykes

7 ай бұрын

You should!

Does anybody have concerns about chip buildup around the screws/gantry? This seems to be swaying my purchase decisions.

@ryanwykes

Жыл бұрын

it would be a problem if it was making dust like a CNC router. but this is a flood coolant mill that makes .005 thick chips. they don't like to stick to the screws or rails that much. I just spray them off and wipe a dab of grease on everything when I remember.

@samuraimachinetools

Жыл бұрын

@@ryanwykes trust us, over time small chips will get into the ballscrews

how do you like the MR1 so far? Seems like the tool changes can slow things down. How do you clean it? Rinse with a hose?

@jonlewis5063

7 ай бұрын

Not OP, but fellow MR-1 owner. I basically just try and keep the limit switches, ball screws, linear rails, and carriages clear of chips as much as possible and brush/vacuum the worktable and surrounding surfaces as needed. I've been considering connecting a brass tee fitting to the flood coolant outlet and having one end of the tee go to the original Loc-Line hose and the other end go to a quick-connect fitting. You could then use a 3-foot quick-connect hose to wash chips off of machine surfaces, enclosure walls, workpieces, and workholding/fixtures.

hey man , comments on the new vid are turned off , Very impressive tool changer

Nice! Does it do well with engraving fine lettering into aluminum?

@ryanwykes

3 ай бұрын

Yes it does! depends on what endmill you select.

You should replace the 3d printed tool setter stand with a machined one. I'm going to make one but it's going to be a while because I only ordered my machine a month ago.

@ryanwykes

Жыл бұрын

yeah I plan to. I hate machining something just to find out it wont fit or i designed something wrong. so I 3D printed it for a test fit and it's been there a month!

@joell439

Жыл бұрын

@@ryanwykes don’t you just hate it when ‘right’ gets bumped in priority by good enough 😂🤣😂. ‘One day’ will come soon enough. 👍👍

I’m having issues with cut control freezing up when I try to run a program. Have you had any yet?

@ryanwykes

Жыл бұрын

is it the PC Langmuir provided or your own? I would suggest researching/posting on the user forum. forum.langmuirsystems.com/c/mr1/37

im guessing your running fusion , what post processor are you using ?

@ryanwykes

Жыл бұрын

yes I am using fusion. the post processor is listed here www.langmuirsystems.com/downloads

You're gonna need to make one of those spinning disk windows for your camera to deal with the coolant.

@ryanwykes

Жыл бұрын

sounds like another project to me!

@BryanHoward

Жыл бұрын

@@ryanwykes Yeah it’s something I’m gonna have to do at some point. I’ve got a bunch of 5” FPV drones I’m not using anymore so I'm thinking of taking one of the BLDC motors out and using that as the motor. Cut some polycarbonate disks on the cnc, gopro or other cheap action cam etc. Not sure really. I hope someone builds one and does the leg work on figuring things out.

This is definitely a neat toy, I program n run Haas SS’s everyday so you can imagine how big a difference that is but still cool. Can you program off line? G code or conversational?

Soooooo every op .....WE NEED TO PROGRAM AND CHANGE TOOL?????

@ryanwykes

3 ай бұрын

Yeah. thats how the stock system is. that is why I changed out the controls and spindle. now I have a 24K RPM unit with ATC running UCCNC. Others have done Linux. base machine is great, and the software is simple. but running tool after tool, program after program gets old fast.

This machine needs some quick tool changing system

Make sure you tell people what the part is