NOW yu know why everyone else in the world was buying up ALL of our old machines. What we saw as junk they KNEW was just a refurbish away from being better than new iron again. It was all well seasoned. 

(;-) TP

You are right. The castings around and before 80's were much better than the ones we get these days. For heavy structures we always head towards the local junkyards first. It sometimes becomes difficult to explain this to the customer though ;-)

The X and Y axes alphabets has to be swapped ( These are Vnyle printed Letters)..That was my mistake .. been busy in a hectic turnaround in fertilizer industry... The Coolant drain system is very simple and innovatively designed.. Will soon post some more pictures in couple of days... The Video is 85Mb and still trying to shorten it....
Zafar you know my interdepartmental transfer was due last year but was not done due to this conversion.. I hope i will be in INSPECTION section(being there is my dream) of my fertilizer plant after this Turnaround.. I wish some jobs on this machine comes during the maintenance activities of plant and we do it timely, accurately and get the payback in the first ever CNC job on this machine...

Quote from: BR549 on February 20, 2013, 10:16:53 PM

NOW yu know why everyone else in the world was buying up ALL of our old machines. What we saw as junk they KNEW was just a refurbish away from being better than new iron again. It was all well seasoned. 

(;-) TP

You are right. The castings around and before 80's were much better than the ones we get these days. For heavy structures we always head towards the local junkyards first. It sometimes becomes difficult to explain this to the customer though ;-)

Zafar, you knew well the use of Planner bed for this machine was my IDEA..have you remember... and getting the BUTLER bed was your idea..i love Old European make machines... They made it strong and they put their best brains and mind in  designing these machines...

Zafar, you knew well the use of Planner bed for this machine was my IDEA..have you remember... and getting the BUTLER bed was your idea..i love Old European make machines... They made it strong and they put their best brains and mind in  designing these machines...

Heheh. You are right Khalid. It was your idea. But we had to spend 4 weeks designing the new structure, getting quotes for castings, linear guides and all to justify that we can't beat a good old planar structure .

I know your hardwork, devotion, dedication, innovation, and all the words that ends with..tion.... to this project.. I must say you are a real engineer... I am really proud of NED university of Engineering and Technology for giving such brilliant engineers to our country...

I am really proud of NED university of Engineering and Technology for giving such brilliant engineers to our country...

Haha. You are also one of them . NED زندہ باد

 

Brett

Zafar , Our Fertilizer Plant Annual Turnaround started. We have got lot of jobs including the two 90mm thick Carbon Steel blind flanges. 24 number of holes . The final hole size is 50mm. Holes being drill in 04 steps:
1- Centre Drill
2- 20mm Drill
3- 40mm drill
4- 50mm drill
The step one and two completed in 3hours... The third round in progress..I hope i will get all hole drilled in night shift.. I sent you zip file of videos and pictures.. i will post the final pictures of finished part tomorrow.

Here are the pictures. Hope you will edit the videos and post..The flanges are 900mm diameter..

That's exciting news Khalid. The machine we built is finally doing it's job. Did you get the video's compressed. If not then just copy them to a micro SD card and send it to me through courier. I'll be waiting for the videos.