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Lathe in it's final resting place.
DMBGO,
I've been playing around with the lathe a fair bit on and off. I haven't turned anything yet but I am SLOWLY learning how to use the FANUC control. I have been removing more and more covers and cleaning up the internals over the last few weeks. Now I am putting it all back together. I have made all new nitrile rubber way seals and wipers and fitted them to the lathe as I put it back together.
I encountered a problem with the machine the other day with the FANUC OT-C control. I'd select mode ZRN to home reference the axis's. X axis referenced properly but the Z axis would trip and alarm saying Alarm 520 Z+ Over travel. I Googled the alarm code and what do you know, found a thread here on cnczone with the solution. After reading the thread, I powered down the machine, Powered back on holding on "P" and "CAN" then I tried to reference again and It worked perfectly.
Hooray CNCZone to the rescue!!!!!
Here are some photo's of the finished lathe stand bolted to the floor and the lathe in it's final position bolted to the stand.
Chich
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Time to load up some tooling
To get started machining I had to load up some tools. The turret is made to hold Imperial tooling, but all of my tooling is Metric! A while ago I got some small ER collet chucks. They have a 25mm shank so I decided to machine some 1 1/4" OD with a 20mm ID so the collet chucks stay on centre.
The photo's show how I made some sleeves on my manual lathe for 2 boring bars to go into the CNC turret.
Chich