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[palani]

One three axis vertical cnc machining center with a 16 tool carousel automatic tool changer.

http://i45.tinypic.com/6eni3s.jpg

Paid a little over $.10 a pound ($900). Installing it this week.

Those chips are plastic. It has spent 20 years cutting plastic in a plastic factory.

[Ponce]

Wowwwwwwwww that's great, I just to be a metal lathe engine machinest........if it was cuttin only plastic then that's means tha is almost like new.......congrat.

[Glass]

and they didn't clean it for all of those 20 years?

Good score though. Myself and a few others are scouting for a CNC. A deal like that would be excellent.

[palani]

Thanks. I was surprised to get it so low. I suppose the 7 1/2 horse spindle motor by itself would go on the market for twice what I paid, not to mention the three servo motors, drives, cnc etc. But I plan on powering it up and seeing if I can get it to work. I have 30 years working in the machining world ... repairing cnc's.

[palani]

and they didn't clean it for all of those 20 years? One plastic company merged with another and they decided this machine must go. The oil reservoirs are all full though and the only rust I can find is on the surface of the table ... that ought to stone out fairly nicely.

[Neuro]

Thanks. I was surprised to get it so low. I suppose the 7 1/2 horse spindle motor by itself would go on the market for twice what I paid, not to mention the three servo motors, drives, cnc etc. But I plan on powering it up and seeing if I can get it to work. I have 30 years working in the machining world ... repairing cnc's.
Is their any possibility of easily hooking it up with a modern CAD/CAM program, or would you need to program it through its original computer program (compatibility issues)?

[palani]

The control has two CRTs ... one for machine operating and the other for tool path display. There is an RS232 hookup for remote download of program and a floppy disk that can be used for program storage. It should allow for APT style programming remotely.

[iOWNme]

VERY cool palani......That si a SCORE for that price. 7-1/2 hp is a pretty decent motor as well. Looks like it might need new Way covers which can be pretty pricy, but still a good deal none the less.

Now THATS capital!

[Ponce]

I just to work at this place where they got theor first nc machine, they got it ready and turn it on to test it......the spindle hit the table at 50 mph and the whole building shook...... it was set for meter instead of feet, as it came from the factory and they forgot to check it.

[palani]

VERY cool palani......That si a SCORE for that price. 7-1/2 hp is a pretty decent motor as well. 10 hp rating for 30 minutes.


Looks like it might need new Way covers which can be pretty pricy, but still a good deal none the less. No. Way covers are perfect. They just didn't bother to wash the machine down before they shipped it.

Got it off the trailer today. It is a 6 ton trailer and the machine weighs in at 6,250 lbs. Danged thing left impressions in my trailer deck though and in one area (where a knot popped out) it looks like it was ready to break through. I got lucky. The column is cast and it only has like a 3 ft x 4 ft footprint. It should have been set on timbers. Note for next time.

[palani]

I just to work at this place where they got theor first nc machine, they got it ready and turn it on to test it......the spindle hit the table at 50 mph and the whole building shook...... it was set for meter instead of feet, as it came from the factory and they forgot to check it.

Those learning curve issues can be expensive.

I once had a Kearney Trecker horizontal machine that the PDP8 computer went out on. I pulled the computer and sent it in for repair and in the meantime a brand new KT vertical machine was sitting there waiting for a serviceman. I pulled the computer out of it, put it in the production machine and sent the computer out for repair. The computer came back, we swapped it back before the serviceman got there and thought everything was hunky dory. Pretty soon an electrician came up to me and told me I had better talk to the serviceman. Seems he was in the process of rewiring the manual jog control station. So I had to confess what we did and suggest he reload the operating program before he did anything drastic. The I/O was different between the two machines so the controls acted funny.

[iOWNme]

Palani what type of control panel does it have? Just curious....

[palani]

Palani what type of control panel does it have? Just curious....

American made ... Hurco

http://i48.tinypic.com/wwahcl.jpg

'Course if it has a problem I have a Siemens CNC ready to drop in.