Hi Troy,
Wow. I've heard that hydraulic servos can be very accurate. I believe it was employed on some early semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
Looking forward to see what you do with it. What's the game plan?
Regards
So here is my next project. It is a South Bend Lathe. PC based Magnaturn from the early to mid 80s. And probably had not been cleaned since that time also. Dug out over 15 gallons of crud from bottom of machine.
Machine ran from two floppy drives. When i got it from owner it was not working. Turned out to be one of the floppies was corrupted.Got it running....but what a pig on power. It has a 15HP 3 phase motor that ran a bunch of hydraulic cylinders and motors.
The system was very impressive tho. As the movement of axis was done with hydraulic cylinders and had scales for closing the loop. I did position tests of .0005" with no problems. But, machine just took to many amps to run. Took about 50amps to get it started!
Here is some pics of bringing it home and before it got a LONG over do bath.
Troy
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Hi Troy,
Wow. I've heard that hydraulic servos can be very accurate. I believe it was employed on some early semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
Looking forward to see what you do with it. What's the game plan?
Regards
Regards
TK http://dynomotion.com
Hay Tom,
To get it up and running with just a toolpost. And later will tackle the turret.
Lathe will be ballscrew with 750W AC servos directly coupled. Spindle hydraulic motor is replaced with a 5 HP Marathon Black Max motor driven by a TECO-Westinghouse A510 VFD.
And of course... Dynomotion boards. KFLOP/Kanalog/Konnect combo.
Got some more pics coming...
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Here is some more pics of the hydraulic mess before removal.
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Out with the old.....
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Out with the old electronics... Its something to see how tech has changed the graphics card is about the size of a mini atx motherboard.
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So what are you keeping? The feet?
Regards
TK http://dynomotion.com
Those and maybe a fan.
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Had to replace the turcite on the saddle(Z axis). It was thin and peeling off. Glued on some new and milled it down with a fly cutter. Stuff machines so easy. Will be getting it hand scrapped also.
Troy
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Now got ballscrews,servos and spindle motor mounted. This was a tight fit on X axis ballscrew as there was not much room at all for a 1" screw and nut. And got the way lube flow figured out. Now onto mounting some electrical components.
Troy
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nice job!
Needed some more room for electrical stuff. So made a custom electrical box.
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Got some electrical components mounted....
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Hi Troy,
I see you kept the fan. Whats the plan for the door to the 3.5inch floppies to be used for?
Regards
TK http://dynomotion.com
Hay Tom,
Boy.... wish my lathe was as clean as the one in your picture The door will eventually have USB ports.
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Nice work on the electrical enclosure. I like your welding bench, how its enclosed and storage underneath. Do you have a fume extractor or something up top? I bet it would work really well like that.
Here is a video of making the Zaxis Ballscrew nut for lathe. I used Fusion360 for the High Speed Toolpath code and using my Dynomotion retrofitted Hurco mill.
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Last but not least the Dynomotion boards are mounted.
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