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I've been running Mach 3 on a small shopbuilt router, and it works O/K, except it is too slow. I recently acquired an older hardly used Vytec router, forerunner to the Rebel series.
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I'm in Ridgefield about 3/4 mile NE of the I5 exit 11 interchange. If it's got a Fanuc, Mazak, Edge, Fadal, or Mach3 control, I can probably help you out. Give me a shout if you still need a hand....

Give the Kitamura guys a call with the machine serial number (847) 520-7755

They will help you out and are aewsome. I recently had an issue where my pallet changer would hang and found the limit...

I routinely hold some 8" x 10" x 2" thick 6061 parts in aluminum softjaws with .1" steps milled into them. It's no big deal to go 160IPM with a .150" DOC and a 1.6" stepover with little fear of...

Kitamura is the one manufacturer that is adamant that you not exceed the 220 volts. They are designed to run on 200 volts, so the 10% window puts you in the 220 VAC range. We had to add a transformer...

Turns out the pin had come separated from the bolt on the end of the air cylinder. A simple fix. I found it while fixing the chip conveyer auger. Some bozo drilled holes to drain coolant out of the...

Don't know if you solved your problem yet, but is it as simple as you forgot to wander around to the pallet load side of the machine and hit the pallet load enable button. If you don't the machine...

Thanks!

Evidently the amplifiers need to come out which means I'll lose the absolute position data and have to rehome all the axis. I guess I need to find a tech brief that tells me how to home...

Evidently Google must work better in India. I always use Google first and generally do quite well. After wading though dozens of pages of Fanuc A06B-6096-H106 hits, I can tell you lots of places to...

We're trying to get a Kitamura HX400i up and running that led a previous life well lubricated but never cleaned. There is coolant mist goop everywhere, and it's not as bad inside the electronics...

We just installed a 2002 Kitamura HX400i horizontal in the shop and are working our way through the resurrection issues.

So far most of the nit picky stuff has been fixed, but were hung up on a...

You can't. The formats are different.

You can have them save it in something like a .dxf or a .dwg and open that just fine however.

Stu

I'm looking at picking up a used Kitamura H400 or an HX400i. I've never used a kitamura machine. How do they hold up, and is there a source for used pallets for this machine?

Thanks,

Stu

Vici has a link to her manuals off her web page... you'll can review her programming manual there so you can help her with her homework...

Try http://victoriacaruk.com/Vici6.html and click on the...

Greetings,

I've been installing, retrofitting, and servicing CNC plasma systems for years and noticed that few companies, or individuals actually know how to size a drive system appropriately....

This book helped me out a ton years ago. Now that I have a better idea how the heat affects things, I take measures to keep it from distorting in the first place.
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Don't know about the older version of Mazatrol, but my daughter uses some programming manuals she keeps here if you need to take a look. It might help.
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Exactly! Only minor detail is I don't know how to write the macro.

I have 2 parts fixtured, each of which is guaranteed to get 4 cneter drilled, drilled, and tapped holes. then I can make a chart...

That's what I currently do except now what do you do when you can't just ignore all 3 holes or not. It could be that you need to skip none of them, or any combination of the 3 of them. In which case...

Block skip is the way I currently do it, but it creates 3 times the effort and allows to much room for error.

I have 7 holes with 3 ops each to complete the part.
4 holes will always be drilled...

I do 13" parts on a HAAS HL1BB all the time. It only has a 10" chuck, so the part overhangs and you can't use a stick tool because there isn't enough clearance outside of the turret. I'm using a KM...

I need to fix several hundred parts that were made wrong by another company gone bankrupt. Essentially I need to relocate 4 holes in 6061 T6 aluminum plate that will be drilled and tapped and have...

LAser, except you don't want to do the PVC in a laser

Come on give him a beak. When I got my Integrex I flew to Housten for the programing class, they never taught us how to set the tools for a Matrix control, because they didn't have a Matrix simulator...

The parameter for # of incomplete threads can get you even with a through hole. I've busted taps untill I realized the tap was driving in an extra 3 complete threads even with a through hole drilled....

Try going to

http://www.haascnc.com/training/Misc_PDF/PCQC%20on%20Web.pdf

and download the free program generator. It allows you to quickly generate the canned cycles and the code to turn the...

Look inside and see if the spindle encoder on your lathe is driven by the belt. When the bearings on the encoder go bad, the timing belt pulls the timing gear into the spindle drive pulley. Your...

Look at it this way. Everybody makes mistakes.
Failure to program the tool to clear the bore and move to a safe distance BEFORE the tool change was the issue and the root cause.

The second was...

Try getting hold of Dan Palow. He's a Mazak apps tech in Seattle. He works out of the Machine Toolworks office in Seattle. I believe he wrote the macro that will do just that in Mazatrol.

Get hold of Mazak trainig, spend the $500 and take the maintenance trainign class. I'd bet they have one for the spindle assembly as well. They certainly have a rebuild center in kentucky and staff...