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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: New people welcome !! Come in here and introduce your self!

« on: June 24, 2007, 07:04:57 AM »

Leroy,
AndersonMachine here.  My "New People" posting is on the page previous to the page our posting is on.  As I mentioned, I'm doing what you are thinking about.  I finished the stepper adaptor plates Friday and now have the motors installed on the mill.  Am in the process of sorting through the wiring to seperate the spindle motor contactor, mist coolant sov and the air brake sov.
Check out the campbelldesigns.com web site to look at his products.  I bought the completed Mach3 enclosure and am satisified at this point.  Usually I reinvent the wheel on most of my projects, but this time I let the pros do it.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: New people welcome !! Come in here and introduce your self!

« on: June 19, 2007, 08:06:05 PM »

Hi Folks,

Earl here, from Anderson Machine Service.  My day job, for the last 33 years, has been an I&C tech in a nuclear power station.  In ’95 I opened a one man (me), part time job shop.  Most of my paying jobs have been dirt track race car parts.  My brother builds those cars for a living and he has contracted my shop (me), to make some of these parts.

I wanted to learn G-code programming, so my first CNC machine was a MAXNC 10-2, which I’ve had for several years now.  I used to program the MAX by hand.  Figuring all that trig gave my calculator a work-out. I used absolute coordinates to keep track of where I was.  Reverse engineering was a real test.  I finally got BobCad-Cam in ’03.  My trig calculator has been retired since that time.

In ’04 I bought a ‘80s vintage Series 1 Bridgeport knee-mill equipped with a Bandit controller.  The Bandit’s dialect of G-code is very different from the norm and I had to hand edit the code as produced by BobCad.  The machine is in most excellent condition, and has made many parts for me.  The Bandit controller is obsolete and a while ago the Y-axis drive broke.  $300 of transistors later, the drive functions, but not properly.  Since I’ve been contemplating a retro-fit for some time anyway, here we are.

I got Bob Campbell’s MACH 3 enclosure and internal stuff and new steppers from him as well.  The controller/ computer stand is complete and the new motors have been fitted to the Bridgeport.  I have to get another computer soon as the newest of the several I have has “Windows 98”.  When the computer arrives, into MACH 3 I shall jump.  I have made a few race car parts lately the old school way with the rotary table, but my version of the “old school” does not make as nice a part as CNC does.  Tough to turn those hand wheels just right to make an arc.

Any way, that’s where we are,
AMS 

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Competitions / Re: ******Guess and win a G100 Grex******

« on: May 22, 2007, 07:47:58 PM »

10 fingers + 10 toes = 2,916,427 chips.