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About
- Make: Shaoxing
- Model: CQ6230 (same as Grizzly G4003G)
Documentation
- User's Manual
- Metal Shop Reference Material
- Uses an AXA-style quick change tool post
- up to 1/2" square tools
- 5/8 & 3/4" dia. round boring bars
- 1/2" x <=3/16" parting blades
- https://www.kbctools.ca/itemdetail/1-502-101 - 3/32X1/2 M2 HSS CUT-OFF BLADE
- 1/2", 5pc Indexable Turning Set
- "TCMT32.51" ("TCMT16T304") general purpose inserts
- "TCGT-32.51-AK H01" ("TCGT16T304-AK") aluminum-specific inserts
Training Requirement
YES, introduction, one-on-one
Safety Requirement
- Eye Protection
- Short Sleeves
- Long hair tied back
- No gloves or jewelry
Cleanup requirement
- Tools put on shelf
- Material removed from chuck
- Chips swept & vacuumed from all surfaces (carriage, chip pan, floor)
Contact
metalshop AT makerspacenanaimo DOT org
- Keith B.
Looking for more metal shop stewards
Approved materials
NO HARDENED STEEL - a hand file must be able to cut it (< Rc 35)
- Aluminum (6061, 7075)
- Steel (1018 mild steel, 12L14 leaded, 4140)
- Stainless Steel (303,304,316,17-4PH)
- Bronze
- Brass
- Plastic (UHMW, Acetal, Acrylic, Polycarbonate)
Approved cutting fluids
NO WATER-BASED FLUIDS
For Aluminum:
- WD-40
- Relton A-9
For Steel:
- Tap Magic
- Rapid Tap
- Any light/dark thread cutting oil
Learning
- Essential Machining Skills: Operating a Lathe
- First Project - Positioning Hammer
- Videos - Thatladymachinist 013-017
- Drawings
Metal Shop Vendors
Raw Materials | Hardware | Tooling & Accessories |
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Youtube Channels
- Clough42
- Quinn Dunkle
- Inheritance Machining
- Adam Booth
- BasementShopGuy
- Clickspring
- Dan Gelbart
- Donald R. Cossitt
- Doubleboost
- Grimsmo Knives
- Halligan142
- Herb Blair
- Hossmachine
- James Kilroy
- Keith Fenner - Turn Wright Machine Works
- Keith Rucker - Vintage Machinery
- Myfordboy
- NYC CNC
- Pierre's Garage
- Randy Richard
- Ray Caniglia
- RussStuff
- Stefan Gotteswinter
- Stevewatr
- SV Seeker
- Tactical Keychains
- ThatLazyMachinist - Marc L'Ecuyer
- ThatToolandDieGuy
- The Cube Studio
- Tom Lipton - Ox Tools
- Tom's Techniques
- Tormach, LLC
- Tubalcain
- War Machine, LLC
- Xynudu
Books
- Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap - Dave Gingery
- Machine Shop Trade Secrets - James A. Harvey
- Metalworking Sink or Swim - Tom Lipton
- The Home Machinist's Handbook - Doug Briney
- Machinery's Handbook - Industrial Press
- Tabletop Machining - Joe Martin
- CNC Programming Handbook - Peter Smid
- Jig and Fixture Handbook - Carr Lane Manufacturing Ltd.
Machine Specifications
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Maintenance
- 2019/07/17 JP - power control lever switch contacts found broken; e-stop broken
- 2020/03/11 JP/KS - maintenance day
- topped up headstock and carriage gear oil (ISO 68 hydraulic fluid)
- cleaned carriage/cross-slide/compound/tailstock ways, relubed with way oil
- cleaned power feed driveshafts and greased with lithium-based grease
- discovered improper installation of 3-jaw chuck; debris in spindle nose interface
- TO DO
- grease all power-feed related gears with red grease
- 3-jaw chuck - disassemble, clean, apply chuck-grease