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16. May 2013

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Cutting Left-Handed Threads on a Haas

Dear Answer Man, The owner of the shop I work at just bought a 1996 HL turning center. I would like to turn left-handed threads. How do I do this? Mike Dear Mike, To turn a left-handed thread on any Haas turning center, all you need is to do is replace the M03 with M04, and use a left-handed toolholder. If you have to use a right-handed tool, you need to cut the threads backward, from [...]
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16. May 2013

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Perform Arithmetic Functions in the Haas Control

Dear Answer Man, I would like to perform some calculations on the Haas control using Sine, Cosine, and Tangent. Does Haas have this functionality? Jeff Dear Jeff, There are commands for each of these arithmetic functions. Those commands require the Macros option and they are listed here: Sine = SIN[...] Cosine = COS[...] Tangent = TAN[...] Here is a program example: [...]
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8. May 2013

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Hendrick Motorsports: Risk Management — Haas Customer Documentary

NASCAR fans will already know that it was through Hendrick Motorsports that Haas Automation originally came to the sport, initially as a sponsor and supplier of CNC machine tools. In 2004, Haas Automation founder and owner, Gene Haas, established his own team, Haas CNC Racing, in partnership with Hendrick. With the advent of Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) in 2008, the partnership between the two [...]
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22. April 2013

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HaasTec Open House Draws Nearly 3000 Visitors to Haas Factory

Haas Automation, Inc., reports that its recent HaasTec open house was a complete success, attracting nearly 3000 attendees to the company’s headquarters and manufacturing facility in Oxnard, California. The 4-day event drew visitors from the U.S., Canada, and around the world, with attendees from 44 countries, including China, India, Korea, Latin America, the Middle East, and many European count [...]
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16. April 2013

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Opening Doors Without Resetting Your Haas CNC

Dear Answer Man, I have a small shop with a handful of machines and one operator: me. I usually do complex parts in small quantities, so I do lots of setups. I sometimes have to stop the machine and open the doors to measure a feature or blow chips out of the way. Is there a better way to do this than resetting the machine each time? Gabino Dear Gabino, The easiest way to gain access t [...]
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8. April 2013

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Connecting Multiple CNC Machines with Ethernet

Dear Answer Man, We have 32 Haas machines in our shop; they are equipped with Ethernet ports, and we have networked all of the machines together with a PC. We currently transfer a program to the control and edit that copy. Sometimes, we use USB and end up with multiple copies and revisions of every NC file. When the time comes to run that job again, we are unable to find the latest revision. I [...]
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5. April 2013

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Haas Introduces New High-Speed Roller Cam Rotary Table

Adding a 4th-axis rotary table to a machining center is a proven way to boost productivity, reduce setups, and increase accuracy on multi-op parts. Adding a fast rotary table to a fast machine creates a high-speed package that slashes cycles times even further. The HRC210 from Haas Automation is a high-speed, cam-driven rotary table that provides cutting and indexing speeds up to 830°/second. [...]
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18. March 2013

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Wooden Sheds and Featherbeds – Haas Customer Success Story

By Matt Bailey In the 1950s, Enzo Ferrari referred to precocious British Formula 1 teams as garagisti, a condescension suggesting that, as humble garage dwellers, they should be taken less seriously than the Maranello scuderia, which liked to see itself as motor racing aristocracy: a blue-blood in a sport of oily-rag upstarts. It would have been more accurate, however, if the “Old Man” had [...]
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