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Update on the CNC -- decided to retrofit instead of fix
I have made up my mind. I will not try to fix the existing control. I
will buy a control box from Jon Elson and will use EMC/Linux. I am really looking forward to that. i |
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Update on the CNC -- decided to retrofit instead of fix
Ignoramus6711 wrote:
I have made up my mind. I will not try to fix the existing control. I will buy a control box from Jon Elson and will use EMC/Linux. I am really looking forward to that. i I am still in the thinking about it and hoping to do it stage, likely a bench top mill not yet purchased, but having repaired a lot of old cnc equipment at work, I believe you are making the best choice. There is a point where the control kills you when you have a failure. Our oldest cnc's now sit in a corner so we can mine a few of them to keep the other ones alive for a while. The plant manager wanted to sell them but we convinced him we could save more by mining them for repair parts. I am looking forward to the progress reports! With your math and programing skills you might even become a contributor to the emc2 project. Wes |
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Update on the CNC -- decided to retrofit instead of fix
On 2010-05-29, Wes wrote:
Ignoramus6711 wrote: I have made up my mind. I will not try to fix the existing control. I will buy a control box from Jon Elson and will use EMC/Linux. I am really looking forward to that. i I am still in the thinking about it and hoping to do it stage, likely a bench top mill not yet purchased, but having repaired a lot of old cnc equipment at work, I believe you are making the best choice. There is a point where the control kills you when you have a failure. Our oldest cnc's now sit in a corner so we can mine a few of them to keep the other ones alive for a while. The plant manager wanted to sell them but we convinced him we could save more by mining them for repair parts. I am looking forward to the progress reports! With your math and programing skills you might even become a contributor to the emc2 project. We'll see how it goes. I do have a few open source things that I wrote and made available. I agree, that old control stuff is a money pit, and even when working, it is still an old control. i |
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