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Eagle 500 3 axis CNC Knee Mill with Anilam 1400
Hello all.
Picked up about a 1992 Eagle 500 with Anilam 1400 controls.
I didn't get any tooling with the machine. I need to confirm that the spindle is nmtb 40.
Has anyone had one of these before?
I noticed that one of the "dogs" is missing from the spindle also.
I'll be programming some with BobCad, and also wondering about anyone's experience with that.
Thanks.
Re: Eagle 500 3 axis CNC Knee Mill with Anilam 1400
Got it hooked up.
Had serious boot up problems. Found that the Gateway 2000 PC had dead CMOS battery, and dead 4.5v battery pack that is Velcro attached to the bottom of the hard drive. Replaced those and boots up perfect now.
Now I need to be able to load programs from my windows 8 with BobCad to the Gateway PC. I had a stack of floppy disks that were all bad. I decided I'd like to use something more common and reliable. So I wanted to update the Gateway to USB, but not sure how to go about that exactly.
I dug around on ebay and found an adapter that lets me put an SD card into it, and then insert adapter into the Gateway's 3.5" floppy drive.
I can write to the SD card with my Windows 8 laptop.
Anyone try this yet?
Also, it looks like someone has lengthened the drawbar for use with the CAT40 holders. I guess I'll be trimming it for the NMTB40 holders I have. I may look at the top and see if I can make a spacer to shorten the reach into the tool.
Re: Eagle 500 3 axis CNC Knee Mill with Anilam 1400
Ok. Now I'm in need of a quick answer to a dumb question.
I can use the Anilam's PC to format floppy discs, I can scan A: (floppy) and it tells me how much free space and such.
But, I cannot figure out how to go about actually reading the files from the floppy so that I can load them.
How do I bring up the files that are on the A:?
Help please.
Re: Eagle 500 3 axis CNC Knee Mill with Anilam 1400
Figured that out too. I found the "shift" button that gives me the G53 option.
The 1400m manual I found is quite a bit different than my S1400.