My Boss 5 has arrived!

[jderou]

I picked this up from a friend. He bought it off ebay a couple years ago and never hooked it up. He had bought the RS232 kit for hooking it up to a pc, but just never got around to it. With any luck, I hope to have it going by the weekend. Right now I just have to worry about getting it off the front lawn, though. 1 question so far, their are counters on the x and y axis, one says ~700 the other says ~300. Is this in hours?

Thanks

[Kool Parts]

jderou,
Nice, I would just run a extention cord and leave it there. You could just move the trailer up and mow under it, then move it back.
Gary

[jderou]

Haha! I already have people at work saying "nice yard ornament, what the heck is that thing?" I bet the neighbors are calling me trash right now.

[HillBilly]

The readouts are in inches they are to keep track of any lost steps (Since these are open loop steppers that possibilty does exist.).

Darek

[Kool Parts]

If you think they are talking now, just wait till you wash the chips off the table with the lawn hose
Gary

[DLMACHINE]

Getting it of the front lawn will be easy. Wait till you try to go through that overhead door. If it's the one in the photo it appears to be a 7' door and the mill is over 7'.

[miljnor]

just grabb one end with one hand and pick it up tilt it back and drag it in caveman style... thats what a REAL MAN would do!

I like the garden hose method...hmmm wounder if i could implement that in my shop?

#3 Today, 07:54 AM
jderou
Chip Sweeper Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: USA
Posts: 26

Haha! I already have people at work saying "nice yard ornament, what the heck is that thing?" I bet the neighbors are calling me trash right now.

don't see many houses in that picture so you probably are ok! (wish I had that much open space at my place!) not to mention the mill!

[mxtras]

Just like Christmas, isn't it? Getting new toys is SO much fun!

That's a good start on your shop, by the way - I like the open-air atmoshere and the elevated platform the machine is on - are you going to paint the floor of the platform green too?

You are hereby obligated to start a journal on repairs/refurbish - with lots of pics and info. Don't let us down........

Scott

[machintek]

Congradulations!
The mechanical counters are table and saddle position. When you set part program zero, you look at these and write down the values. If you shut the machine off in a place other than part program zero, this allows you to jog there and reset zero.

George

[2muchstuff]

From the picture it doesn't look like that you are in one of those fancy subdivisions with all there rules in Chesterfield. Congradulations on your new mill. A fellow St. Louisan.

[jderou]

Ahh yes, you have discovered my second challenge. The door is 7', I am going to have to take the top of the mill apart to get it under (easier said than done). No fancy subdivision here, I can be as much of a hoosier as I want . Restoration/Retrofit will come with time, first I have to make some money! Hopefully its plug and play.

[DLMACHINE]

It's not a bad job actually. I had to get my 2 in through a 7' door.The top comes apart nicely and is pretty straight forward.