Category Archives: FANUC

G84 – M176 / M177 – TAPPING A LEFT THREAD ON A LATHE

Have you ever tried to make a left hand thread with a tap? Using G84, even if you enter left rotation at the beginning, causes the rotation to change to right after reading the cycle. But there is a way for everything, as the reader of this page informed us.

G84 – Face tapping cycle for lathes – left hand thread version + example.

Continue reading