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Sorry this has taken me a few days. I have taken some pictures of the cabinets and uploaded them to Dropbox. Here's the link. If you have any questions or want more specific pictures, I can...

We've finally gotten to the point where we're only running our T-10 about a couple times a year and it's now taking up more space then it's worth. We've removed the guarding from the machine in...

THANK YOU!
I'm currently working with a DMU70evo and a DMC-100 and I think those posts can be very useful for me. I really appreciate your sharing them.
Jay

We also have a machine with an Acramatic 950 and we're having almost the exact same issue. The machine will be going along fine and then *poof* control reboot (hydraulics and servos off). For us...

I haven't tried an emulator myself. I can tell you that unless you have a more recent version of the software you can't use the floppy to load NC programs, only the system disks. The more recent...

What's the chance you could do the same on an Acramatic 950MC? I believe the 850 is actually newer than a 950 if that's any help.

Jay

I'm going to guess that maybe the control in the Arrow 500 might not recognize the flash drive. This could possibly be due to size of the drive. A lot of older BIOSs couldn't recognize dives above...

Great information! Thanks for the follow-up post.

Justin

What does the M70/M80 option do? More importantly, What did you do to get it?

Justin

You might want to take special note of the tool change blocks in the program that ktmktmman posted. You'll notice they start with a colon. This is referred to as either a "sync block" or a...

I agree that the WFI4 part number should be 3-542-1190A. This is what I found on the Siemens part listing as well. I believe you need to have a minimum version of the software in order for the...

I just checked and the WFI board says Rev. C. I'm assuming that's a version 3 board.

Do you happen to know the part number for the non-retrofit version of the IDE drive? I know the retrofit version is 3-424-2284A0x but I believe there should be a part number for a control that came...

Would this also allow me to load part programs with the floppy and possibly upgrade to a standard 1.44MB floppy drive? If so this would really be worth the upgrade.

Justin

Thanks for posting a follow-up. Answers are always helpful. I'm glad you got it working.
Justin

I am quite familiar with Ghost and dd and other backup methods for PCs. The problem with that is the drive in the machine is an old Winchester/MFM drive. I don't have any way to read that in a PC...

It sounds maybe like you have a position encoder (or cable) issue. Just a thought.

Justin

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Any thoughts? Anyone?

Here is some more information
I talked to a very knowledgeable rep at Siemens about options for replacement/upgrade. He said that I could buy an upgrade kit that...

Our shop has a Cincinnati Milacron T10 HMC with an Acramatic 950 control. I am in the process of learning some of the quirks and peculiarities of the machine.

I'd like to figure out a way to get...

Trigg,
I've also used the G47 engraving on the Haas control and I've liked it a lot. I bet you could adapt the macro program that G47 calls to Acramatic language with a little work and then just...

Hello all,
I'm wondering what solutions people are using to connect one or two stationary PC's in a programming office to multiple machines on the shop floor. I have two shops I'm working...

Thanks for the quick reply. The 3 phase coolant pump seems to be long gone and has been replaced by a small 120v model.

So, from what you say it seems that I shouldn't be having any problems due...

I'm not trying to run the machine on single phase. I have actual 230V, 3 phase power available and now wired to the machine. I bypassed the external step up and side mounted step down transformers...

I got the machine a little closer to running today. I did as I figured I could and bypassed the step-up and step-down transformers and supplied the 230V directly to the machine. The Z axis is now...

I'm not going to post all my pictures on the board because they're all really big and it's easier for me to just host them on my own server. Here's the link http://jdm.hopto.org/hurco/gallery.html
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Thanks for your input Scott. The machine is kind of the pet project of one of the owners of the business and he's asked me to get him a cost on getting it production ready. The guys in the shop who...

OK, I had a chance to probe the machine for voltages. I found some interesting readings and eventually, after a few on/off cycles of the step-up transformer it seems to have stopped working. I have...

drat....
Just a quick update. I cleaned out the tape drive and tape as best I could yesterday in an attempt to power on the machine and see what it would do. The answer is: darn near nothing. I...

Long post warning......you've been warned.

Thanks for the ideas Ed. btw, I used you as a referrer when I signed up on practicalmachinist.com. I was only up until about 3am last night doing...

I haven't had a ton of time to really get all over this machine as I'd like to but in the couple minutes I spent looking I couldn't find any ports that looked like you guys have described. There's...