Can you believe this AL? I guess the 2500 mile trip was hard on this rig. The Fadal rep was there for cold start , and helped me track down the problems. The good news is that the spindle has either been cutting plastic it's whole life or was recently rebuilt because it's as loud as a celing fan at 2000 rpm. All of the driver cards, vector drive, toolchanger and 88 controller interface work fine, so I can still use it.
This mp controller is handy though and worth fixing I think. Having an onboard 40 gig hard drive and 128mb memory, cd player and two 3.5 floppies. I could easily swap a cd-r in there when I get it up and running. That would make program handling easy as falling off a log.
I can't tell you how much Fadal pissed me off though, when the parts guy told me they can't just sell me the disks.
The broken hard drive is at a local data recovery place right now. They tell me they can (probably ) recover the programs and replicate the whole disk. Everyone cross your fingers. |