for sale:

Allen-Bradley BDT1-5.5 Bandit I CNC I/O Communications Manual; scanned version via email; 50 pages.

$18.00

please email replies, TIA!
barry
carson city, nv

On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:13:39 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

for sale:

Allen-Bradley BDT1-5.5 Bandit I CNC I/O Communications Manual; scanned version via email; 50 pages.

$18.00

please email replies, TIA!
barry
carson city, nv

My first CNC control was a Bandit. It even had 30K of memory for
program storage! Taught me to write efficient looping gcode!

Karl

On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 06:21:25 -0500, Karl Townsend
wrote:

On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:13:39 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

for sale:

Allen-Bradley BDT1-5.5 Bandit I CNC I/O Communications Manual; scanned version via email; 50 pages.

$18.00

please email replies, TIA!
barry
carson city, nv

My first CNC control was a Bandit. It even had 30K of memory for
program storage! Taught me to write efficient looping gcode!

Karl
30 years ago I ran a lathe with the bandit control. The lathe had just
been upgraded from stepper to servo motors. This was a 10 HP, 21 inch
swing Cadillac lathe. The control was actually pretty good except that
it would on random occasions index the turret. I had some pretty
spectacular wrecks when the turret tried to index in the middle of a
cut. The solution was to disconnect the air supply to the turret. When
a tool change was called for I would shove the air line onto the quick
disconnect I put into the turret air line and then unplug the air as
soon as the index was complete. The service guy was able to determine
that the fault was somewhere in the main control board and my boss
determined that it was too expensive to fix so I ran the machine
anyway, waiting for tool changes. This taught me to think about tool
changes and how to avoid them. Putting my chucker experience to good
use I used lots of gang tooling. I still have a 7 tool gang setup from
back then that I used to make tens of thousands of plastic scuba
parts.
Eric