Oh Blimey I bought a CNC Lathe !!!!

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awemawson:
Anyway it has now been moved into my 'dirty workshop' where the welding and grinding happens. This will be its temporary home until I decide if it is going on the lathe or just being fixed then stored.

Looking at the last picture - is this the only Shaper in the world fitted with a bar feeder :ddb:

awemawson:
A bit of progress today: I've identified the tin work as all being the correct stuff - mighty puzzled at first as some was too large, until I realised that the fellow I got it from had adjusted the height to suit his new Mori Seiki lathe which had a spindle 60mm lower than mine! It screws up and down on jacks inside the framework.

Turns out the plonker had seen the bar feeder had a 20 pin industrial socket the same as his new lathe. Put them together,but didn't bother to check the pinout, which was different, blew out the psu on the bar feeder and caused £3K of damage to the Mori :(

Anyway - progress: A nice man in Germany has emailed me some technical info on the unit: Not exactly the same physical layout in the electrical tray, but seems to be the same actual circuitry:

lordedmond:
Some people should not be allowed within 100 miles of equipment

see a socket plug it in and boom :zap: then you read the manual :doh:

Stuart

vtsteam:
Yes, but it was 20 pins on both. Call that just a coincidence? What are the chances they'd be different?

:D

ps. Maybe he did read the manual and it said "Plug the 20 pin female connector into the 20 pin male connector."

awemawson:
So where to start? Well as usual I'll do a psychological clean up! I find that it helps to sort out in my mind what is what, and what is where. and there's nothing more horrible than poking around inside a grimy machine fault finding.

I started by taking off the slanted top frame that the stock bars roll on to give me better access, then went at what I could reach with WD40 spray and a rag. Can't use my favoured 'washing soda' here as the electrics are all exposed.

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