I looked long and hard for a bolt in DIY retrofit kit. Figured it would/should be a piece of cake to do a retrofit today. MY efforts can be found via a search on the Zon'es search engine under "CNC lathe retrofi" or some other such moniker.
IN short, it is a major PITA to do and I found no such kit to exist. Mach was contacted directly for servo interfacing but they refuse to provide support. If you are doing this for a business venture, think twice as to have to rely on a user message board to support the effort seems counter productive if you need help to get the thing up an running like NOW.
Ajax has kits. Result reports were not encouraging - in fact , they were ridiculous in what they wanted to supply as in throw out any/all servos and install new ones, their's of course. Again, see search for earlier thread. Camsoft and others as I recall were also commented upon in the thread and results were also NOT encouraging.
TH 5T due to its age and vintage, suffers from poor conduct at connectors and PCB solder deteriorations. Glen Rowe at Billore Ent down in Texas resurrected my boards for a reasonable charge as far as old obsolete board service charges go. Forget Fanuc for support. They know almost nothing and basically want to sell you an all new controller to service it.
Billor hase a website and can bench test the boards. If you go thru and reseat/clean/defunk all the interconnections, you'd be amazed at what that will do to revitalize the machine. Some problems are solder on board problems that are caused by old, corroded/oxidized solder joints. These can' be fixed by redoing plugs - you have to spend time or money to fix these.  |