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Oh Blimey I bought a CNC Lathe !!!!
awemawson:
Henning: Thanks for the encouragement.
Originally this lathe had a bar feeder shoving working stock up the spout on demand from the controller. As I haven't got the bar feeder I need to work out how it interacts with the digital inputs and outputs of the TX-8F controller and also the relay logic. The Emergency Stop chain went through the bar-feeder, and I traced that today and linked it out of circuit. There are three digital inputs originating from contacts on the bar feed, and I think I'll make up a diddy test box so I can count through the 8 combinations and see what the software response is.
Leblondmakino:
Thats a hell of a lathe Andrew..getting it working looks like the easy bit..programming it to make parts..that could get complicated!
Nearly as nice as the parts master in the background :thumbup:
John
awemawson:
--- Quote from: Leblondmakino on May 05, 2013, 01:46:35 PM ---Thats a hell of a lathe Andrew..getting it working looks like the easy bit..programming it to make parts..that could get complicated!
Nearly as nice as the parts master in the background :thumbup:
John
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John, You have eagle eyes !!!
The Partsmaster needed little doing to it other than repair the damage to the Y travel ballscrew & nut caused by the carrier not securing the carriage in transit. The carriage had thrashed back and forth each time the lorry stopped and started and ended up destroying the screw & nut by hitting the end stop. Seller was miffed as I had made sure I'd paid him 'carriage inclusive of insurance'. The machine only has 3000 hours of 'power on time' from new ex Bristol University.
AdeV:
--- Quote from: awemawson on May 05, 2013, 03:59:36 PM ---Seller was miffed as I had made sure I'd paid him 'carriage inclusive of insurance'.
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Let me guess, he thought he'd been clever by taking the 'insurance' money & not buying insurance from the courier, thus losing out?
Anyway.... I am mightily impressed at your perseverance with this Goliath of a machine - and at the progress you've made so far. Surely it can't be long now before the sleeping giant awakes...
I have to admit, it's stories like yours that make me worry about buying big 2nd hand industrial kit, the wiring in my comparatively titchy Bridgeport looks like 2 wires a battery & a bulb next to your behemoth.
Still, every morning & evening I dip into the threads, hoping that today is the "Eureka!" day & that you've made some chips.... but also hoping that it's not, but that some new hurdle has been overcome & the saga has at least one more episode in it yet.
Watching with fingers crossed!
Pete.:
--- Quote from: AdeV on May 05, 2013, 05:20:46 PM ---
Still, every morning & evening I dip into the threads, hoping that today is the "Eureka!" day & that you've made some chips.... but also hoping that it's not, but that some new hurdle has been overcome & the saga has at least one more episode in it yet.
Watching with fingers crossed!
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Same here - I check in like a soap addict looking for an update.
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