I have aquired a Hermes Vanguard 7200 Engraving machine.. Doing a quick search I cannot find much info on it. Does anyone know of a source for manual and such?

thanks
sam

Try this www.engravers journal.com or go right to Hermes.

Thank you.. Have not decided what I want to do with this..

I plugged it in - and it homed - then smoked ;) (not a big deal - fixable but I would rather use emc2 to control it..)
http://www.electronicsam.com/images/engraver/drive.JPG
http://www.electronicsam.com/images/engraver/rip.JPG

I hooked a parker microstepping drive up to one of the axis's and ran it thru emc2.. Worked great and zipped it around at 120ipm with no issues. I used 1000steps per rev and the lead screw was 4 thread per inch which gives .00025.
http://www.electronicsam.com/images/engraver/engraver.JPG

they are only 1.5a 5v 6wire steppers - I hooked up just one of each coil running bipolar.

its work envelope is 20"X12"X2.25" - nice size.

sam

got 3 parker/compumotor drives hooked up the the existing steppers. So far so good.

Crappy picture of my foot ;)
that was zipping around at 60ipm.

http://www.electronicsam.com/images/engraver/emc2axis.JPG

here is a quick video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKz81fY1OjY

sam