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Project "YOU Bit It Off, YOU chew it", aka installing a Bridgeport CNC
Hazel:
Yes, the seller advertised my BP as regularly serviced, but all I got in the way of proof was an old receipt for the TFT repair - over £2k ! yikes. I tested the coolant pump this weekend, and got sprayed with some nasty brown goop. I've spent most of the day cleaning the nasty goo out of the reservoir. Now the spindle stops after a an M03 and I no error is reported. This seems bad. I am now considering changing the spindle tooling from QC30 to 40INT, since QC30 is super rare.
AdeV:
I wouldn't say it's _super rare_, Gloster Tooling sells brand new QC30 stuff (through eBay & their online catalogue), and tooling frequently comes up in the US (eBay). It's probably rarer than INT40 though, I agree.
If your spindle is stopping on an M03, how are you starting it? Or does it start, then drift/slam to a halt? Either way, not good, it is indeed supposed to just start & run. Assuming you are testing this in manual mode, did you set a spindle speed first using the Tool Call button? ISTR mine behaved "oddly" if you issued an M03 before a tool call, after powering up.
I would also recommend you start collecting servomotors... I blew one up a couple of weeks back, cost near £700 to replace (and was going to cost a lot more to rewind)...
Hazel:
--- Quote from: AdeV on June 07, 2012, 04:41:19 PM ---Project "YOU Bit It Off, YOU chew it!" begins!
Eeek!
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OO Looks like you have a 4th axis drive installed ... want to sell it :bugeye:
Hazel:
--- Quote from: AdeV on August 27, 2013, 05:25:11 AM ---I wouldn't say it's _super rare_, Gloster Tooling sells brand new QC30 stuff (through eBay & their online catalogue), and tooling frequently comes up in the US (eBay). It's probably rarer than INT40 though, I agree.
If your spindle is stopping on an M03, how are you starting it? Or does it start, then drift/slam to a halt? Either way, not good, it is indeed supposed to just start & run. Assuming you are testing this in manual mode, did you set a spindle speed first using the Tool Call button? ISTR mine behaved "oddly" if you issued an M03 before a tool call, after powering up.
I would also recommend you start collecting servomotors... I blew one up a couple of weeks back, cost near £700 to replace (and was going to cost a lot more to rewind)...
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It turned out the auxilliary contactor was a bit dodgy and would cut off the power to the cycle stop switch - stopping the cycle. It all seems happy now.
AdeV:
--- Quote from: Hazel on September 11, 2013, 05:51:24 PM ---
--- Quote from: AdeV on June 07, 2012, 04:41:19 PM ---Project "YOU Bit It Off, YOU chew it!" begins!
Eeek!
--- End quote ---
OO Looks like you have a 4th axis drive installed ... want to sell it :bugeye:
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Annoyingly, that's the machine I sold (only had a TNC150 on it though), I hadn't really clocked it had the 4th axis drive. There was no powered dividing head/rotary thingy with it though, so I don't know what would have been involved in getting it up & running.
I do have 2 spare drive cards, but I don't have a choke to match (I could do with one - one of the chokes on my machine is very noisy), I could possibly be tempted to part with one of those...
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