Wish a deal like those would fall in my lap. Ive not been seriously looking until now, but I have seen enough in passing that I think I'll be patient and try to find one for about $5k. I know they'll come around eventually.
Bought a QT15, now what?
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Too bad you aren't closer (I'm in PA), a friend of mine has a mint Yam ck2 with an OT-C control that hes going to sell around that price. He bought it 15 years ago and never made a part with it as hes a 1 man show and has over 30 machines.
A couple years after he got it, it had a parity alarm and several people tried to fix it over the years replacing power supplies and all kind of odd stuff. He asked me to look at it about 6 months ago and I traced it down to a bad memory card (likely a failed memory I/C but an entire card was only $100 on ebay) and a couple other issues that were actually the result of others working on the machine.
Plenty of deals out there if you don't need the machine yesterday.
My general rule is for most common things if you have the cash in hand, a place to put it and a way to move it you will find it for sale locally within a 90 day period if you are vigilant.
For uncommon stuff it's taken me up to 3 years to find exactly what I needed.
My first CNC lathe was a big old Mazak M4. I paid $600 and a 12 pack of Heineken for it. I bought a nice running TL5 Mori off Ebay once for $1
I don't expect things to be dirt cheap or free, but I sure don't pay more than I have to for machines.
Most of the deals I get come with some strings attached- Like I buy it broken, dirty, ugly, make it painless for the seller and pay cash.
Big companies hate used machinery dealers just as much as the rest of us.
For uncommon stuff it's taken me up to 3 years to find exactly what I needed.
My first CNC lathe was a big old Mazak M4. I paid $600 and a 12 pack of Heineken for it. I bought a nice running TL5 Mori off Ebay once for $1
I don't expect things to be dirt cheap or free, but I sure don't pay more than I have to for machines.
Most of the deals I get come with some strings attached- Like I buy it broken, dirty, ugly, make it painless for the seller and pay cash.
Big companies hate used machinery dealers just as much as the rest of us.
Wasn't too far away from that, myself. I'm working to get her to understand, but so far it's been all uphill.A while back I was given a choice, the business or the little lady.......
Clearly I chose wisely as I'm still making parts and buying machines
In all seriousness the only thing I had to answer for was working 98+ hours a week
Back to tech talk-
I have 0 lathe tooling to speak of. Other than basic stick tools, what should I be shopping for? Collet holders, drill chucks, bar puller, what else?
This can't be as expensive as the 40 holders I have for my mill, right?
I have 0 lathe tooling to speak of. Other than basic stick tools, what should I be shopping for? Collet holders, drill chucks, bar puller, what else?
This can't be as expensive as the 40 holders I have for my mill, right?
I find lathe tooling 100 times more complex than mill stuff.
I have mountains of sweet auction lathe tooling bits and rarely have the tool I need. I would buy new as you need it.
For one off stuff it is handy to have a pile of old stick tools and a MIG welder. You can make just about anything that way.
I should also say I make some pretty weird shaped lathe stuff, so my tooling needs are often face grooving or roughing in a direction a tool isn't designed for.
I have mountains of sweet auction lathe tooling bits and rarely have the tool I need. I would buy new as you need it.
For one off stuff it is handy to have a pile of old stick tools and a MIG welder. You can make just about anything that way.
I should also say I make some pretty weird shaped lathe stuff, so my tooling needs are often face grooving or roughing in a direction a tool isn't designed for.
chad883
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MariTool has some nice straight shank collet chucks. I am extremely happy with the ones I have from them.
TeachMePlease
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Knurling tool. Boring bars. Or an insert drill that can drill/bore. No experience with those, most of my bar stock is smaller than the smallest insert drills I've seen 
The more complex your work, the more complex your tooling. Call me lazy for not reading all the posts here, but what do you want to do with the new addition? Just what do you plan on doing with this?
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Time to set her up and give her a shakedown run
Mr. M
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Congratulations!
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Not all 3 phase will have a high leg. Also most machines will have a transformer that takes 2 legs and bucks them down to 100volt ish. Technically if your phases are balanced the high leg is the same as the others unless you are referencing neutral which none of my machines have a provision for on the mains. Or referencing earth, which is not supposed to be used to complete a circuit.
All that aside most people like to avoid sending the high leg to the control. You will likely trace 2 legs to a transformer that powers the control, hook you 2 non manufactured legs to the mains that power that.
I'm not an electrician so don't listen to anything I have to say.....but most electricians I've run across don't know how to hook up delta high leg anyway
I don't know if it's a stretch or not to claim this, but all the machines I have paid attention to this on, the control takes power from the R and S legs. T doesn't power the control.
Should be real easy to tell where the control transformer is hooked in. At some bolted junction point in the cabinet wiring there will be two terminals with one more wire than the third terminal has. That's your huckleberry
Should be real easy to tell where the control transformer is hooked in. At some bolted junction point in the cabinet wiring there will be two terminals with one more wire than the third terminal has. That's your huckleberry
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The control transformer is a small unit usually inside the control cabinet. Post up some pics
Edit, looks like you are correct that it's one big unit that is delta wye and also have a 100volt tap
Edit, looks like you are correct that it's one big unit that is delta wye and also have a 100volt tap