Boxford 190VMCxi 3-axis Vertical Milling Machine Lab 1: Basic Orientation

Boxford CNC Equipment Lathe Vertical Mill

Basic Components Vise Tool Center / Collet Caddy Air Nozzle Looking up into Spindle Air Nozzle

Basic Components Type E60 Arbor End Mill Cutting Bit Power Switch, Circuit Breakers, & Cord Access Interlock Switch

Basic Components

Basic Components Arbor Release Lever Coolant Mist Mixing Valve Bottom View of Arbor in Spindle X & Y Direction of Ways

Project Management The following slides describe the procedures for manual operation of the 190VMCxi Enter the procedures logically and clearly into Project 1 (Lab 1) of your Project Management Binder (PMB) Logical Sections would be: Component and Controls Identification Machine Control Procedures Manufacturing Procedures Later, when you are assigned Team Members Make sure everyone in your team has the same information Unconditionally, share information (you are a team)

Manual Operation – Home Position Turn 190VMCxi power on Gently push E-stop Gently turn E-stop to the right and release Push the blue Cycle Reset button Under E-stop Wait until manual/auto control illuminates 10 to 20 seconds Press the blue Home button (2 parallel slashes) Located in top right corner of control panel Machine tables relocate themselves to the home position Z-axis up and X and Y tables to the front left corner

Manual Machine Operations After Homing the controls Open the Boxford Application software Select the 190VMCxi Under <View> menu, Select <Feedback> This allows seeing a time delayed feedback of X, Y, and Z axis speed and positions Also, the spindle speed is displayed

Manual Manipulation Get in teams of 3 and safely exercise all of the manual machine controls Attempt to exactly locate the mill spindle at (75, 75, 100) Document in your PMB your observations.