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| redshift:
What about mounting on the angle bracket thingy behind the chuck? Regards Dave |
| awemawson:
Dave, that's the mount for the tool setting microscope - it has a door that flops down to keep swarf and coolant out of the mounting as it's only used when the lathe is not rotating. It has a nice convenient VDI30 socket which is tempting to use but I want to keep the inside un-violated ! |
| awemawson:
Yesterday I rolled my sleeves up and got down to trying to sort the intermittent axis servo drive fault I'd been having. Analysing the error reports the drive was saying that it had lost contact with the controller. This perhaps, maybe, perchance, just could be poor connections somewhere thought I clutching at straws. I noticed that under the cooling unit there was quite a significant pool of condensate on it's drip tray. Also the inside of the cabinet was rather clammy to the touch. I came to the conclusion that the chiller was perhaps set to come on at too low a temperature, and was blowing damp air around. Mopping up and resetting the chiller to come on at a higher temperature was the next action. I also dismantled the various boards of the servo drive, and all the interconnection plugs and sockets to the controller, and put them back together with a tad of contact cleaner spray, ensuring everything was screwed back firmly. So today's mission was to perform a 'soak test'. I left it cycling round the program making and re-making that poor old 20 mm screw thread for getting on for three hours. So far the fault hasn't raised it's 'orrid head above the parapet, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed, but making no assertions ! This soak testing meant I had to be there twiddling my thumbs so I got on with something else described here: http://madmodder.net/index.php/topic,9180.msg101132.html#msg101132 Andrew |
| lordedmond:
if it pokes its head up shoot it with a 12 g both barrels that should fix it when I was working as a sparks at the iron works intermittent faults cause us more that one nightmare when is a continuous process plant thats in trouble , think pipe casting and blast furnaces , they cannot be stopped without costing a fortune , think back tho it was a lot worse at the bank 40 million in five mins downtime that mdd you sort it out Stuart |
| awemawson:
Tell me about it! We had computers controlling Llanwern, Port Talbot, and Ravenscraig, so 'just going off line for half an hour' wasn't going to happen ! |
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