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Guess what. I switched on the machine this morning and it started working. Have many deadlines to meet, so I'll leave the head scratching to a later day on what was the cause of this. Any suggestions...

Found from the drawings that F12 and F13 are for spindle head fans. So the problem is somewhere else. Let me dig deeper into drawings.

I checked that there are 120 Volts across the blown up fuses. Some device is shorting the circuit perhaps. The wiring diagram would tell which device that could be.

Zafar

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My Hurco VMX30 just refused to startup this fine morning. It is giving me this error on the screen

ATC ERROR!!
SPINDLE CLAMP INPUT NOT DETECTED.
ENTER "ATC AND MACHINE DIAGNOSTICS" TO...

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I have a LVD Shape Delta turret punch on which Dynapath Delta 50P is installed. Machine is running ok except when we rotate the turret anti-clock wise then the locking shotpin does not operate...

Thanks a lot for the help. We have already sorted it out and the machine is in operation now. It turned out that one of the pressure switches was connected to wrong hydraulic pipe. That's why it was...

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I am installing a couple of old Trumpf punches. One is Trumatic 240 and the other is Trumatic 2000. TC240 gives me following error when I press the Ref. button after turning the hydraulic on....

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Recently lost tool change macros on Fanuc 0P controller running a Strippit Fabri-Center 1250MH. Machine is equipped with multi-tools. The macros left in the machine are O9010, O9013,...

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I am retrofitting a tapping center here. The spindle drive is a Sanyo Denki model no. 60BA150BFW03. Searched the net for any info about it but no success. Can anyone help me out with the...

We design and install CNC controls on Turret Punch machines. Our controller combined with the punch CAM software supports punching, nibbling, sheet repositioning, tool rotation, punch hover height,...

This is pocket milling in steps of 1 mm through CNC control.

Here's another video

Video for vertical pocket milling test job

Remarkable work. Machine is exceeding your expectations. Exceptional cost and time saving. Did you put mobile A/C on the controller box?

Zafar

Khalid,

It was really wonderful working with you for the last 4 days. Putting a machine in working order is always a moral booster. And if the machine is such a clever piece of design then it's...

aluplastvz,

I've sent email to your yahoo address. Check it out.

Zafar

Video of the first drill job done on this machine. This is basically compilation of different videos captured by Khalid and a few snapshots.

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Placing the job on machine wasn't much hassle with the old setup. They just used to put it there, level it and clamp it. Then move the radial arm around to reach the drill position. Marking the...

I'd love to see the video. I normally use xvid codec with virtualdub software to compress the videos. That 85 mb vid would be reduced to around 5 mb with that without much quality loss.

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Here are latest photos from Khalid. Paint job is complete on the machine. Nice inscriptions are painted onto it and the slide guards are all in place. Looking nice. They have...

Can't wait to see the latest photos and videos. I would have taken those photos myself had it not been that chicken pox spell :(.

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It is second day at Sadiqabad. At breakfast table I receive SOS call from home. Chicken pox has erupted on kids, wife needs me home ASAP. I have already planned the job to be...

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I am back in Sadiqabad again. Had the stainless steel sheets sheared and bent in Karachi and brought them with me here yesterday. Today we welded them together and assembled...

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The bearing block at the far end of ball screw was too close to the table bottom. It's clearance is increased from 0.5mm to 3.0mm with this portable mill. Khalid has many...

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Here are recent photos of the machine. Khalid has tidied up the lubrication lines and also painted the foundation base a nice yellow and black striped pattern. They are also...

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Work is still in progress on the slide guards for the Y-axis. I am supposed to get them this evening or tomorrow. I'll have to make some fittings for them at my workshop in...

Khalid, you are tempting me again to spend a few days away from home. You know very well that I can't resist the temptation to watch this machine operating at it's full capacity :).

Hard tapping is not possible with this setup. However with a reversing type tapping head they can tap holes. Another customer of mine has done tapping with a floating tap holder with a setup similar...

It can do very light milling work. First of all there is skew on the drill head without the locks on. The drill head quill is not good for side loads of milling cuts. And the max spindle rpm is too...

Thank you guys for the compliments. It was a unique project for me too. This was the first time I had done complete CNC designing. So far we had been doing CNC retrofits on old CNC structures, which...

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It is Sunday and we are going to do drill tests today. It is going to be our last day in Sadiqabad (hopefully :) ). It will be our third Sunday here and Khalid has been with us all...