"Brian Lawson" wrote in message
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On Sun, 7 May 2006 20:20:45 -0500, "Mike Henry"
wrote:


"Joe AutoDrill" wrote in message
news:hON5g.3422$qb6.1452@trndny07...
One of the local shops I send my business to is owned by a friend. He
is
always amazed that I am able to dig up answers to questions even though
I
have much less experience and head-knowledge than he does. I keep
telling
him how powerful and helpful the newsgroups are, but he just doesn't
have
time or the will to come join us.

So... He asked me to try and solve a problem he is having. I posted
this
to the alt.machines.cnc group too... He owns a Michael Deckel brand
machine. It is a five axis tool grinding machine. Model S18PCNC-5.

Apparently, he bought the machine and now he can't get support at a
logical price for the software... They want a huge sum of money to
simply
get him up and running... Something like 250% of the price he paid for
the machine itself.

So... His challenge to me was to find someone who knows something about
the software who might be able to help him. I'm a drilling guy so I
couldn't even tell him where the start button is... But I told him
someone here would probably know the circuitry of the internal boards by
heart. grin

Anyone able to help? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

The folks on www.practicalmachinist.com might be able to help. There is a
Deckel-specific forum there that tends to focus on the miling machines but
it is still worth a shot.

Mike

That group about Deckel's is about FREIDERICH Deckel Machines, not
this Michael newbie. Albeit, the asking at that forum is still a good
idea.

Thanks for the note - figured it was some sort of family spinoff and the
grinders do seem to be very well built.

Mike


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