Search:

I have a xp3 1500 with fanuc 18i control and alpha drives and motors. If you jog thevx axis it is good. With the mpg handwheel it is good. In mdi or a program a G0 move is good. In MDI or program...

Since it is an operator message it is created by the PMC ladder and most likely is due to not having the PMC parameters installed. You might be able to get a Mori dealer to send you a list of what...

Grid shift is applied after a initial zero point has been established. It is used to shift the zero point slightly. For instance let say on a lathe the reference home position for the x axis is set...

The pulse coder sends 3 sets of pulses to the control, the A channel pulse, B channel pulse, -A channel pulse and -B channel pulse are the ones it counts and uses to determine position and...

No rapid 8 is the power drawbar. If the ez trak prints that were posted do not match your mill you will have to help identify which version of eztrak you have. Rather than going off on a tangent...

How it is set depends upon the control and drives you have. Check the control manual.

Given the age of the mill and what happened after getting the taper reground I'd probably just pull the drawbar, chances are you will find cracked or broken bellville washers. Replace the whole...

After 7 or so months of downtime you are probably better off calling in a tech to look at it. Chances are your local Hardinge distributor has no one very familiar with Hardinge or Fanuc controls as...

Methane clathrate does warrant looking into but a lot more research is needed. Since thier dscovery the estimates of how much is in/on the continental shelf have been continually lowerred, but still...

On a Series I you usually have to tap it down from the top side (be careful not to damage the felt washer or the shield/retainer that holds it in place)

Alot depends on how close of a copy it is to a series one. With that said, check the nose piece and see if it has unthreaded some. There should be a set screw to lock it in place, on a series I it...

It wouldn't be as bad as you think as 42% of the oil the US uses is from domestic wells and the bulk of the imported oil comes from Canada and Mexico. Middle eastern oil sources account for less than...

If all else fails you could always try calling Fanuc and buy the MCC from them.

A few years ago when Accurite tried using the AC motors on Millpwrs they ended up sending out DC replacements for most of them. Of course by the time Accurite admitted there was a problem we had...

As some one pointed out the 401 VRdy Off alarm is pretty generic alarm all it is telling you is the drive is not ready. The actual cause of the alarm may not even be in the servo drive or system...

That's a fanuc part number but not for a control. That number is for a keypad for a Fanuc O control. If you have the O control it can hold more than one program in memory. Early versions did not...

I wouldn't go quite that far as the current crop of PV panels have thier uses. They have been used quite effectively (especially when combined with LED technology) for things like traffic signals and...

you should be able to skip the FDisk/partition and dos install as you have already completed them. Just delete out the parameter file and reinstall the software.

Try deleting out the bmdcprms.sys file and reloading the software and using the bmdcprms.sys file that it creates. You may need to manually modify some of the parameters to match your machine's specs.

To answer your questions. No it was not Chinese Iron, and yes it was made as they transitioned into Hardinge/bridgeport.


The mother board does not have a special video card and drives a VGA...

Get your manual out and read section 3.14.16

Typically they used just a roller switch for tool clamp/unclamp. Unless the switch is physically damaged they normally fail by either staying open all the time or closed all the time but not...

Try this guy. Home Page Mike was factory field service for bridgeport and later for hardinge/bridgeport. I doubt you will find anyone who knows more about the old Bridgeport equipment then he does.

Check to make sure you are not loosing power to the control. I've seen things like this on new machines where some one at the factory forgot to tighten down all the terminals.

It's a possibility. The power leads are not the only ones that carry the 24 volts, this is also what powers the prox switches and other switches that are on the machine, some of the cables to those...

Power supply could be going out or something else could be shorting out. The main 24 volt power supply in the TC's usually had a 5 amp circuit breaker or fuse protecting it's output and should be...

It's a common arrangement. If you had a large turret on the front side of the work piece like a conventional lathe the amount of space it would take up and the shielding needed would mean the...

That means you have reset the physical torque limiter. Now finish the procedure from the book. Step six says to "Complete the torque limiter reset procedure by continuing with the X-Axis Zero Return...

As with CNC mills, g-code programming is common but there are also controls that offer other methods.

G-code programming is similar from one machine to another but not always identical. Even if...

Yes left and right is the Z axis. X changes the diameter.

Live tooling is there is a motor that spins the tool. For instance say you are turning a shaft that also needs a small hole through the...