Hardging HC with Bandit control

[Kevin Taylor]

Looking at a HC cnc with a dead Bandit control has screws and motors Has anyone converted to mac or anything else with sucessfully do they have steper's or servo motors? Thank's Kevin

[HuFlungDung]

Bandits could have either servos or steppers. Try to find the drive amplifiers, and look for a nameplate that will give you this information, or even a drive model number that someone may recognise.

[Astroboy]

Does your lathe have the Bandit control sitting on top of a pipe over on the right end of the bed?

I have a Hardinge HC with a Bandit control (on a pipe) that I am trying to either get working or save only the driver cards in the back and replace the rest with a PC with Mach3 and a parallel port breakout board and some other little bit of electronics. Mechanics are good.

Do a search on "Bandit". Also look for Kirk Wallace who has already interfaced to the Bandit, however for a mill not lathe.

- John

[ErnieD]

Hi,

I have a Hardinge HC that I am planning to convert to CNC. Does your machine have a sub bed with both axis mounted on the sub bed or do the screws move the original Hardinge slides around?

Thanks,

ErnieD

[Astroboy]

ErnieD

Go to this location and scroll down the page to my other post:
http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showth...t=53570&page=3

OR go back to the start of this forum and go down to the next thread started by dodgy74 and go to page three and scroll down to see my pictures.

You will see pictures of my HC with the two ball screws covered with those springy covers. If you look in the back, you will see a pipe. The Bandit controller is sitting on top of that.

In two of the pictures, you can see the X drive stepper. The Z drive stepper is down at the far end of the bed out of sight. It is attached to the same kind of aluminum box with belts to gear it down.

So, as you can see, the ball screws tie directly to the carriage and cross slide and move them.

- John