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| raynerd:
Several months on and I have just received a Shumatech 350 at a bargain of a price! The Shumatech 550 has just been released so I suspect that there will be a few of these 350`s come up for sale. I`m really impressed with it, I need to mount it properly on a flexable arm or similar but it is good enough where it is for now. It was used on a lathe by the original owner and so came with two custom cables with plugs that fit neatly into the Chinease scale inputs, the thrid axis I had to buy a 4 pin DIN, cut the ends and solder it to the scale: Something I didn`t know when I bought it was that it actually powers the scales! No more leaving them turned on by mistake and no more batteries... The Shumatech just sitting neatly on the shelf behind the mill ... I`ll make a proper arm but for now it is great just where it is! And to all you net nannies, my milling vice is in bits ready for a mod and the little drill vice is mounted on there just to calc. the accuracy of the surface and edge finding with my new DRO setup. I`ve been thrilled with the DRO since I installed the scales but with all three axis together, this is going to make things 100% easier than the awkward places the displays use to get them into. Chris |
| JimM:
I'm going with a similar digital caliper type DRO for my machine - have you fitted any shields to yours to keep them clean or do you just brush off any chips etc when done ? Cheers Jim |
| raynerd:
Hi Jim, I was just brushing them down after use but now I am 100% going to make shields and cover them completely. Firstly because with the DRO cables attached, the electronics are now more open to swarf and also because without the DRO console I had to look at the displays to get a reading but now I don`t need to see the display at all because it is all controlled from the Shumatech console. In actual fact, that is my next job! |
| matnewsholme:
chris if your shumatech came off a lathe it presumably has the lathe software installed. Theres also a mill specific software for the shumatech which gives a different set of functions more applicable for use on a mill ( like bolt circles etc). you can change the software with a serial cable. Theres a different overlay for the keyboard too but only a few keys are actually different. Matt |
| seanacais:
I've read on a number of occasions that electric interference from the motors can cause the calipers to act funny. This gent has a rather elaborate solution to fitting a capacitor into the battery compartment after you've hooked the caliper to a shumatech. http://www.robotroom.com/CaliperCapacitor.html Kevin |
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