Recent content by Garwood

Had a friend stop by yesterday and asked if the Puma was running yet... I said you know since you're here MDI some stuff in for me while I watch the spindle drive in the back. So he puts in S500 M3 and the display on the drive rapidly goes 0001, 0002, 0003, 0004 then goes back to 0000, but...

I'm zoned agricultural AF-20. The next town expansion will put me inside city limits then it will get harder to build whatever I want as I will answer to 2 planning commissions. I don't think it would effect my business any. Everyone around me runs some kind of business from thier home.

How much of an issue is it to expand the shop where you're at? I feel like I got it pretty good here. Nobody really cares what you build as long as it looks halfway decent and you pay the taxes on it.

Gotcha!

What other machines do the D1-8 chucks belong to if the D1-11 lathe is the only lathe in your shop? Mud's solution seems like it'd work pretty good if you had no need to mount those chucks on other machines, but you say you do need to mount them to D1-8 machines?

It would bother me to consider putting a bunch of time into making a chuck adapter like that just to look back in 20 years and realize I only used it 3 times. Friend of mine retired about 25 years ago, handing off his shop to his daughter and son in law. He kept an area in the shop for himself...

Friend of mine had a 60" x 40' engine lathe. The chuck was integral so it lived with a 24" chuck clamped in the 60" chuck. I think it had around a 400 RPM top speed so it wasn't really a problem.

Makes sense to me. You've talked about wanting to get an older HMC in the past. If you were able to get one with a full 4th would it suit the kind of work you do better than a VMC?

Not questioning your motives, just genuinely curious- What do you need a fully integrated 4th for that an independent 4th w/control box integrated with m-codes can't do? I get there's a lot it cannot do that the integrated can. I'll admit I haven't set up a 4th on a vmc since I got my HMC, but...

I would love a vertical lathe that size, but with a 16" chuck. The small footprint looks amazing.

Good point! I didn't think about the I/O board swap relating to spindle issue.

Huge shout out to Kevin for coming down to troubleshoot this old thing with me last weekend. Definitely a very weird issue with this machine. very intermittently we got a 920 alarm (like one in 20+ power cycles) on the screen. The Puma uses Fanuc input and output modules. Kevin noticed the I/O...

I have some Skoda and quality looks good.

Hardinge really shoved the control in a shit place on this thing. Hard to get a good picture, sorry. I have started calling it the SB42 instead of SP42. I feel Shit Box is more suiting than Super Precision.

My Hardinge SB42 has an 0TC. Which is the PMC board?