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Today All my Peperation Paid off!!!!
Today was a Great Day. The weather Kind of cleared up and my friend who owns a 26Ton Excavator said he was in the area and would call in to unload my Lathe. I have been wanting to use an excavator because there is a tree stump in the way of getting my lathe to the shed. I made arrangements with him to remove the stump first then unload my lathe and put it onto the trolley I made in the previous post.
I contacted my other friend who owns the trailer that the lathe is on and he took his truck and connected up the trailer. The excavator and the truck pretty much turned up at my place at the same time. The lathe weighs 3500Kg (7700 Pounds) and the Excavator is good for 2500Kg Fully extended so we kept the load in nice and close to the machine which was safely indicated on he load chart. The lift went exactly to plan and we placed the lathe onto the trolley and pushed the Lathe into the shed by hand.
Here's some more Photo's
Chich
It's..................ALIVE!!!!!!!
My friendly electrician made a visit and installed a 3 phase outlet on my wall right beside my lathe. I then helped him to run some wiring through the lathe to the main switch, then down to the transformer and then straight into the machine control. There was a logic plug right in front of the terminals that the power was supposed to go into and I was REALLY being cautions not to disturb anything that could lead to me loosing the machine parameters. So instead of unplugging this logic plug we decided to use the existing power supply wiring and splice them into the new cable from the transformer.
We then double checked everything and tested it before powering it up.
My friend manned the switch on the wall outlet and I was at the front of the machine. I flicked the main switch on the front and BANG!!!!!!!!!!
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Only kidding!!!!!! HA! Bet I had a few of you worried then! Actually the exact opposite happened. I then pressed START and up came the CNC control on the screen. :banana: I released the e-stop and pressed START again and the control came to life but the Hydraulic pump did not start. The Hydraulic pump contactor pulled in but the pump did not go. After powering down and some quick maintenance on the contactor we tried again. Success this time but after about 5 seconds I realized the Hydraulic pump was spinning backwards. We quickly powered down again and swapped 2 phases over on the transformer. Powered on again and up came the hydraulic pressure.
I then went through every function I could find and to my absolute delight, Absolutely everything except for the work light works!!!!! :wee:
Spindle, gear change, tail stock, front and rear turret, X and Z axis, All the buttons on the control panel, Tool presetter arm (tool touch probe is in a cardboard box not actually in the arm) Everything working.
Oh I forgot... The first thing I did once the control powered up was to take photo's of all the parameter screens. I have since burnt them to a CD for safe keeping.
I am very happy.
Chich
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Did I mention this machine was filthy????
For the past few days I have been cleaning the machine up. In places it has a large amount of swarf, in other places it is all caked up with sludge that ordinary degreaser or even diesel wont break down. I tried the cheapest oven cleaner I could find in a pump pack and it worked very well. I sprayed a little on to a cloth and wiped them down. This was followed by many rinses over with a clean wet rag until I was happy there was no more residual oven cleaner. The cooling heat exchanger on the back of the electronics enclosure was all blocked up with sticky gray sludge so I pulled it all apart and gave it and the fans a thorough clean. The hydraulic pump fan cowling had a mountain of crud in it and so did the spindle motor fan. I removed the cowling off the hydraulic motor fan and cleaned everything up like new. To clean the main spindle motor fan I finished up removing the entire spindle motor as I wanted to repair a cable that I felt may have been dangerous. While the spindle motor was removed, I noticed that the motor cooling fins were completely blocked up with crud. I spent about 3 hours cleaning the motor and fan up and then my Dad and I put it all back in the lathe. A quick test run today confirmed good air flow through all that was cleaned.
Chich