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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: 1987 Bridgeport Production Center Interact 412 to Mach3 Conversion

« on: December 14, 2009, 06:27:05 AM »

 I think this is the drive that normally goes with the Model 6 motor   A06B-6044-H009   Ge Fanuc price      £7466,00 GBP!!!!!!
John.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: 1987 Bridgeport Production Center Interact 412 to Mach3 Conversion

« on: December 14, 2009, 06:23:13 AM »

Just checked www.fanucge.com  that Model 6 Spindle motor £4777,00 GBP!!!!!!
Not sure on the drive as I couldn't see the model number on the pics you have.
John

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: 1987 Bridgeport Production Center Interact 412 to Mach3 Conversion

« on: December 11, 2009, 06:10:51 PM »

You could do rigid tap with the Fanuc set up and Galil card..but not with the VFD..
John 

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: 1987 Bridgeport Production Center Interact 412 to Mach3 Conversion

« on: December 11, 2009, 05:58:07 PM »

Really nice build...I would not recommend going single phase though! These machines were built to run 3 phase..that head takes some moving...!
By the way hang onto the spindle motor and drive if you can..you have around $10,000 of high quality Fanuc gear there. You would have to spend some serious money to get anything that worked better!
My advice for what it is worth would be to buy a Galil card and some mitsubishi drives/motors off Ebay and stick with the fanuc spindle motor/drive combo.
It looks like a low hours machine...well worth spending on

Just my humble opinion... looking forward to seeing it finished

John.  

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Galil / Re: Mitsubishi HF-SE Ac servos and drives.

« on: December 11, 2009, 05:26:20 PM »

Thanks for the feedback batwell, nice to hear someone trying the J2 drives..lots available on Ebay I've noticed.
Are you putting them on a mill..?
John

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: 1979 Takisawa DTX-1 Turret Lathe

« on: November 04, 2009, 02:59:09 AM »

Sounds a neat solution. I presume you have encoders on the motors and not tachos? Was it hard to get the Vipers working well with the large sevos?

I have an '84 Hitachi Seiki 4NE11 very similar in size/spec to the Takisawa. It has Fanuc 6TA on it with yellow cap DC motors..a 20m for the Z axis and 5M for the X axis..Like you say those DC drives are not small!

John. 

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: 1979 Takisawa DTX-1 Turret Lathe

« on: November 03, 2009, 03:46:51 AM »

Nice Lathe Dustin...are you sticking with the original servos..? What drives will you be using..?
Looking forward to seeing the finished lathe!!
John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Fanuc OT retro

« on: October 06, 2009, 03:01:38 AM »

It's good to look at other controls and see how they compare to Mach! It all helps to improve  Mach

John.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Fanuc OT retro

« on: October 06, 2009, 02:59:16 AM »

Sounds good Filipe 
Keep us posted!!

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Fanuc OT retro

« on: September 16, 2009, 03:19:27 PM »

Looks great! These are very solid machines..
The 9000 parameters are not really machine specific..they do things like add soft keys on the screen and enable machining features such as helical interpolation which can be used for thread milling..of course some of the 9000 are specific to mills and some to lathes and you must have the hardwear to support some of them ie. rigid tap needs an encoder based spindle.

On later controls such as the 16 and 21i motor tuning can be done by looking up the servo motor in the Fanuc manual and inputting the parameters for that motor!

It's best to find a parameter set from the same size/type or very similar machine if you can and tweak them using the manual as reference.
 
John.