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The Sequel - Oh Blimey I bought a CNC Lathe (Beaver TC 20)
tom osselton:
:beer:
That’s something you wouldn’t expect you’d think it would have a minimum generic setting.
awemawson:
Graham, I rarely resent buying spares for these things when they are available and the price is sensible. It makes diagnosis so much easier in the future. A case in point is the little battery backed RAM card that seems to have succumbed to the lightning storm - I had it because it had flitted by on eBay about a year ago. Without that spare I'd still be scratching my head :thumbup:
Other examples: I have a complete set of electronics and servos for my H425 Spark Eroder in a crate in my container alongside another with virtually all the bits of a Fanuc Wirecut wire eroder.
I suppose it comes from a lifetime career supporting obscure equipment in critical applications.
Years ago we were taken over by an organisation more accustomed to supporting commodity PCs where there were usually many substitute spares available at short notice from dealers at low cost. Seeing some exceedingly rare CPU modules on the books at well over £50K a piece the new MD wanted them written off pronto to make the books look better. When I pointed out that they supported a fair proportion of the National Grid infrastructure including Nuclear Power Stations that we had very tight contractual commitments to, and that they could no longer be made his face was an absolute picture :clap:
vintageandclassicrepairs:
Hi Andrew
Well done on getting the lathe electronics sorted, It is always a good idea to take some time away from the problem,
I have found solutions to problems appear in my mind at the oddest of times and places (if that makes sense?)
John
Sea.dog:
The tube system was also reliant, and not so long ago, on obsolete equipment. For all I know, it still is.
modeng200023:
Which tube would that be? :scratch:
John
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