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| awemawson:
Thanks Abraham and others. Problem with the RS ones is at £39 plus 20% VAT you are at the circa £50 level which is why I was casting around looking for good used ones. The various one not in the UK seem quite reasonable until you calculate the shipping, which brings them up to 2/3rds new price. As there are so many of the darn things it get pricey very quickly :( Not much activity recently on the machine - I've been called away to sort other things. We've got some large scale building works going on here, and the builder (who I've employed for over a year now) has gone to pieces over the potential loss of his mum who is having heart troubles. This gives scheduling issues so for instance I have to get 1100 tons of earth shifted tomorrow! Lucky I'm not using a shovel and barrow: |
| AdeV:
If only you had some kind of large capacity CNC lathe machine, you'd be able to turn out loads of shovel shafts and wheelbarrow parts.... :whip: :lol: |
| awemawson:
I made good use of my enforced imprisonment in the farm office to go through all 160 plus pages of the circuit diagrams pulling out all references to inputs and outputs to and from the NC controller as I was sure something was missing. I put them all in a spreadsheet, which has allowed me to sort them by i/o address and also by terminal number. Sure enough I've found five inputs that are not documented and contacting Traub, they also don't know what they do :bang: So next job is to put the cable tracer on them and plot them out. If you are having a really boring day have a read of the spreadsheet: |
| awemawson:
And to keep Adev happy - yes the earth moved for me! It took four of us from 07:00 to 22:00 non stop. My shovel and barrow are in the second picture! Just need to let the place it was dry a bit then harrow and re-seed. |
| AdeV:
Yep, that's what I call a spade & a wheelbarrow :) If only I had the room for such toys.... Loving the gate BTW. |
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