Looking at buying a MV 35/40

[Bigtoy302]

I am looking at buying a 1986 Mori Seiki MV 35/40 from a local shop. Machine has a Fanuc 11m control and a 10k rpm belt drive spindle. Machine has 32k on time and 14k run time. Is this a lot? What should I look out for? Only problem is it blows fuses every once in a while. Machine only gets ran a few times a year. Spindle and ballscrews sound good. Did not check backlash though. Value?




Ryan

[dertsap]

used to work with a couple mv40's with 8000 rpm spindles , great machines , the only true issue aside from years of wear and tear was that they along with another few other machines didn't like the dead heat of summer , we needed to open the control panel doors and point fans towards the panels ,
pretty hard to beat mori's for reliability and the mv's were solid machines

[DouglasR]

The machine and the control are definite winners in my book. You have to use your judgement as to condition and whether or not it's been abused or neglected, but I would think from the pictures it's a machine that I'd jump on right away.

I had a MV-45 in my old shop, with a 6M Fanuc. Was a great machine. I'd grab it.

[Bigtoy302]

I decided to buy it. I had it delivered to my shop today. I should be able to get it leveled and powered up this weekend.