Thanks Nervy,
The description of your mills condition sounds exactly like mine...same thing exactly...scratched plexiglass...worn out CRT...filthy......I'll be putting more money into this as far as parts are concerned. This machine has been cutting mostly aluminum and a little steel from the chips I'm pulling out from under the saddle. There's quite a few miles on this mill so ball screws are definately in this mills future. The mill was in service just till the time they pulled it. The company machined large objects and had to make room in the machine shop for two 80X30's!
I'm using Zep purple industrial cleaner, from home depot, it dissolves the coolant and gunk quite well.
I am confused abit about the controller...I'll update the controls to -5 but what about the 32MP control or does that just refer to the control pendant?
I understand that the 32MP has a PC in the pendant itself. Is this what you have nervis?........
Also the motor is'nt a vector drive....so no rigid tapping for me.....The inverter is an old SWEO/Baldor drive too.
At the present time the control is'nt even an HS and no floppy disk either.
I'm really not sure whether to buy a whole new pendant or what?  |