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General Mach Discussion / Re: My next retrofit

« on: February 22, 2008, 09:13:11 PM »

2hp blower motor on the 30hp spindle motor




32 inches between tailstock and spindle, looks like hydraulic tailstock has 5" travel



here is the data sticker on the drive for the spindle motor. I need (hope) to run this machine at 230v , unsure if drive can be rewired or If I will need a new one




here are the insides of both the elec cabinets, no drives

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General Mach Discussion / Re: My next retrofit

« on: February 22, 2008, 09:16:03 AM »

machine is due to land here at the shop in 3 short hours, can hardly wait

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General Mach Discussion / Re: My next retrofit

« on: February 19, 2008, 07:50:55 AM »

I think your right , the 2300 should be about right according to the calculator

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General Mach Discussion / controlling lathe tool turret

« on: February 18, 2008, 08:06:30 PM »

I am building a couple of multi station tool turrets for my 14x40 and 9 x 20 lathes and need advice/guidance on controlling them with mach. They will work pretty much like the turret on larger lathes, I will need to energize an air solenoid to push the turret forward off the indexing pins and then tell a servo motor # of steps and direction to turn to index to the proper tool called out in the m6 command line. How should I go about this ? Is there a plugin or macro already written for rotary tool turrets? thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: My next retrofit

« on: February 18, 2008, 09:50:23 AM »

In the event the drives are not present I think I will use the drives from automation direct

http://www.sureservo.com/sva_2100.htm

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General Mach Discussion / Re: My next retrofit

« on: February 17, 2008, 10:39:21 PM »

Now I just need one of those new fangled smooth stepper boards

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General Mach Discussion / Re: My next retrofit

« on: February 17, 2008, 07:54:22 PM »

does that look like an A-1 type spindle nose?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: My next retrofit

« on: February 17, 2008, 07:38:02 PM »

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General Mach Discussion / Re: My next retrofit

« on: February 17, 2008, 07:35:43 PM »

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General Mach Discussion / Re: My next retrofit

« on: February 17, 2008, 08:38:19 AM »

MHP was absorbed by Hurco around 1991 and I am having a hard time finding much of anything on the machine. I did find a company that services MHP and they want $15k to come out and fit a new controller and get it up and running . Centroid qouted me a little over $14k for a retrofit package from the motors out, all the wiring harnesses , drives controller etc.

The machine does have the original wiring diagram with it and I think with a little patience I can map out everything and get it up and running. I figured commercial drives would be needed to get the speeds I need with the size of the components/machine. If I can control the proper drives with Mach then the rest of the functions should be fairly easiy. I am always up for a challenge