New to me machine coming soon!

[Mayhem]

That works for me

[PixMan]

(06-14-2013, 06:09 AM)stevec Wrote: Jeez Ken, you`re only answering Darren not `splainin`to yer wife.

LOL...If I was explaining to my wife, there would never have been any mention of the $400. Well, actually there was. I told her is cost me $400 to have it taken away.

[EdK]

(06-14-2013, 07:15 AM)PixMan Wrote: I told her is cost me $400 to have it taken away.

Wise choice Ken.

Ed

[PixMan]

Progress today. It's been tough getting any time to work in the shop with my mom & dad needing so much attention, but I did get a almost an hour in there to get the servos hooked up and tested. I also got a head start on cleaning off 30 years of grime.

The machine has a thick layer of grunge on most surfaces, a combination of coagulated coolant, way oils and fine chips. I estimate it's going to take 4 to 6 hours of hard cleaning to get most of it off. I found the servos had been disconnected, and the previous owner had labeled the connectors by wrapping a piece of clear packing tape around the wire near the connector, and writing on it a 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 with a black marker that I could hardly read. No corresponding numbers on the power panel, though once I figured out what the proper connections were I was able to get the X and Y axis to move under "Power Feed" mode. If they move that way, I can run programs. Cool.

I don't know how much time I'll have tomorrow, but I do want to finish that cleanup before making chips.

[PixMan]

Update for today: I spent 6-1/2 hours cleaning it. The pictures may not show the detailing I did as well as you would see in person, but let me tell you that this thing looks SO much better. It's 31 years old, but now looks like it's less than 5.
Before:

After:



Now I just need some cool project to start machining with it. Any ideas?

[wrustle]

(06-23-2013, 02:59 PM)PixMan Wrote: Update for today: I spent 6-1/2 hours cleaning it. The pictures may not show the detailing I did as well as you would see in person, but let me tell you that this thing looks SO much better. It's 31 years old, but now looks like it's less than 5.

Now I just need some cool project to start machining with it. Any ideas?

Ken,

Now you've gone and ruined its character!

Shame on you!

Now get your ass over here, grab some chips, go back home and spread'em around, make it look like a REAL machine!!


Nice job by the way......but seriously.....we want to see chips!!

WE WANT CHIPS!

Come on everyone.........

WE WANT CHIPS!
WE WANT CHIPS!
WE WANT CHIPS!

[EdK]

That looks like a real nice mill. You know we'll require videos of it making chips.

Ed

[Mayhem]

I want to see what happens when he puts one of his Barry Manilow audio tapes into the cassette recorder and hits to GO button

Nice job on the clean up also.

[PixMan]

LOL, you guys are too funny!

I'll be studying the manual for it this week and expect to get over there and make chips soon. It's been tough to find time because I'm so busy with work and helping my parents with daily tasks. Evening meals, my mom's insulin shots, picking up groceries and drug prescriptions, so much more.

I'm trying to come up with some useful project in steel, aluminum or plastic as it seems I've suddenly for about 80 pounds of drops from some job shop owner I know. ;)

As for the mini cassette recorder, I think that's only good for saving programs. If I want to listen to Barry Manilow, I'll have to fire up the 8-track player from the 1970's.

[PixMan]

I went over to the shop for a short while this evening and played with the control. I followed the book and entered in a string of commands to get it to run a 2" x 4" rectangular path. It wouldn't move.

Not one to give up easily, I read more in the book and pushed some buttons. The machine took off and made some crazy tool path that I didn't recognize, so it must be a stored program that somehow got called up and executed.

Well at least the spindle was empty and off, and with no tool in the spindle, no workpiece in the vise and no Z axis movement possible via program, nothing crashed. It was nice to see it run though.

A little more time playing with it and I should be able to make....something. ;)