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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: South Bend Fourteen Lathe conversion

« on: February 03, 2013, 09:47:48 AM »

I have a SB 14 as well and have contemplated doing just this.  did some work on the vari drive (mine did not work) what I did was lock the discs in one place with a plastic spacer. which keeps the gearbox in place and allows you to tweak the speed by machining a new spacer I suspect that what I have is going to be fine. I have ran it on low and high but have not purchased a vfd as of yet. I will be watching this with much interest. let me know if you need more information on the vari drive I have pictures. also i am the list owner of the SB14 yahoo group.

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General Mach Discussion / Updated the build thread

« on: January 27, 2013, 09:40:00 PM »

I updated my build thread with some photos
http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,6078.10.html

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Archie's first cnc machine Bridgeport R2E4 Boss 9 to Mach 3

« on: January 27, 2013, 07:52:35 PM »

more pictures

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Archie's first cnc machine Bridgeport R2E4 Boss 9 to Mach 3

« on: January 27, 2013, 07:49:15 PM »

Well  9 months later

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Getting started near Huntington WV

« on: January 27, 2013, 07:10:02 AM »

John
      I have most of the parts to build one of these.  spindle servo motor ect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlQgMk6te_Y

and I have 2  dividing heads.  one like this one and the next size larger one.

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/general_metal_working_machines/172314-servo_cnc_conversion_vertex_bs0_dividing_head.html

It has been really  cold here and I do not have heat in the shop so it is slow going right now  I am planning to test the oil pump for the bridgeport later today after it warms up a bit.

I am planning on using this pendant    Plugged into the modbus

http://www.cnc4pc.com/Store/osc/product_info.php?cPath=40&products_id=162

this looks really usable but price is really steep

http://www.cnc4pc.com/Store/osc/product_info.php?cPath=40&products_id=361

I am going to use a ethernet smoothstepper  with a laptop to get things moving after I get it up and running  I am moving toward this  with a touch screen.

http://us.shuttle.com/barebone/Models/XS36V.html

I have 4 mills  the bridgeport and 2 steinel machines (a horizontal and a vertical) which take NMTB30 tooling  and a K&T 2HL horizontal which takes NNTB40.

except for cutters the I have plenty of tooling for the K&T, the 30taper stuff I could use a bit more of. especially DA180 collects.

well I better get off here and out to the shop. 19 degrees at 7 am brrrrr there are plenty of non machining things that need to be taken care of this weekend so off I go

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Getting started near Huntington WV

« on: January 26, 2013, 11:11:39 PM »

This is my mill
http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,6078.0.html

all the updated photos were uploaded to a web site I no longer maintain. I will have to take some more photos and update my thread. the boards i have in my mill,  there is 3 cnc4pc boards the breakout board a C23 I think a modbus server,  the card that plugs into plus an expansion card.  At this point I do not know why  I have all those cards in there.  I just received the Viper 200 so I can test the servos on the mill.    I also have 3 commercial PLC's that were given to me. (not for the mill )  I just replaced a lubrication line that was cut when it was moved. I still have to test the oiler.  also there is a Arduino indexer project on the zone that I find very interesting  I have 2 horizontal mills that need stand alone indexers for them plus a 4th for the bridgeport.

Thank You
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General Mach Discussion / Re: Getting started near Huntington WV

« on: January 26, 2013, 08:19:06 AM »

Follansbee West Virginia is the home town of a fairly well known Mach3 user, "Hoss." He has many posts on CNCzone regarding CNC conversion of milling machines.

His website, http://www.hossmachine.info/about_me.html. is a pretty good read.

His current build is a long running thread on the CNCzone, www.cnczone.com, regarding a mid size mill conversion.

I think connecting with him would be a good start. He has a pretty good assortment of machine innovations such as various kinds of motors, various drivers, 4th. axis and even a tool changer and power drawbar with design plans available. Also, he has a ton of videos on Youtube of  various machine mods.

He has not posted on the Mach3 forum to my recollection, although he may have in the past.

Thank you mrprecise I have looked through his web site and there is a ton of things to look at. he about 4 hours away by car I will touch base with him. It would be a long trip.... It is funny because of where I live "in the valley" all the machinists I know are into or work with "heavy iron" and admittedly most are of retirement age have shops at home and never really embraced the "cnc thing" or their machines are Heavy cnc machines  at under 3000 pounds my cnc mill is considered a lightweight here lol

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General Mach Discussion / Getting started near Huntington WV

« on: January 24, 2013, 01:43:45 PM »

I live in WV and was wondering if there are any MACH minded people in this geographic area.  West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky

My Mill project has been neglected for way too long

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General Mach Discussion / Burny plasma table question

« on: December 24, 2012, 10:09:14 AM »

I have a friend who has a Burny plasma table with DC servo motors and encoders it works however it is a eye follower machine.  and my guess is the way to run it under mach 3 would be to use Gekos however the dc servo motors have 4 wires plus encoders  any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated  motor is Cleaveland Motion Control servo pak DC servo motor  model# MT2630-141AF  S/N 09055437  code date 0545   I have a few DC servos but they have only two power wires feeding the servos

any help would be greatly appreciated
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General Mach Discussion / Working temporarily in Minneapolis St paul looking for mach 3 entertainment

« on: October 29, 2012, 09:23:31 PM »

Yes I know I am sick and have metalitis. I will be working in the Minneapolis era for an un determined amount of time I am retrofitting a bridgeport cnc mill R2E4  and have it almost completed where I am really weak is on the software end and was wondering if there was anyone in the general erea I might buddy up with. if curious just Google my screen name. Thank You in advance.
Happy Hunting
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