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Appreciation post: when the tool changer scared me half to death
Was running a batch of 50 aluminum parts on my Haas last Tuesday and the tool changer dropped a #4 end mill right into the middle of a cut. Scraped the part and shot a chip into my arm, but I got the machine stopped before it wrecked the spindle. Has anyone else had a tool changer glitch like that on a newer machine?
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piper_green1mo ago
Three Haas machines in my shop and every single one has had a tool changer hiccup around the 50,000 cycle mark. It's like that weird pattern where everything in life breaks right when you're in a groove.
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ben4361mo ago
Wait, all three of them hit the exact same failure point? That's wild, man. I mean I know Haas has some known gremlins but three out of three seems like a straight up design flaw or a bad batch of parts. Like how does that not get caught in their testing before they ship these things out? Makes me wonder if they're just hoping nobody notices or if they know it's a thing and just don't give a crap. Honestly kind of scared for the guys running those machines when they hit that 50k mark now, like it's a ticking time bomb or something.
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