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We had a 1990 4020 which was sold last week. It still had the original battery with no problems. We bought a replacement battery many years ago but never put it in. Wish the batterys in my cars would...

The best thing you can do is replace the thrust bearings and then route the cooler fluid to the spindle housing only. One of the worst ideas Fadal ever had.
Hardly anyone really needs the screw...

Thanks CCOLEMAN,
I appreciate the advice however the main difference between your machine and mine is that yours is R2E3 with a whole lot more electronics high up on the head thus more to...

Hey Guys. Thanks for the replies and the pictures. I believe The second method will be the best for me. I will only have to remove the wires to the spindle motor along with the air lines to the...

Hey Guys,
Sometimes all that is required is to adjust the orientation factor in the parameters settings. Note your current setting and then try a number a couple numbers higher and lower.

Hi Guys,
I will bet I am not the first one to have this problem. I brought a Series 1 Rigid Ram Boss 5 home I need to take part of the head off to get it inside the garage.
I will have to...

After you put the control into "Waiting for command" mode you must type
DNC hit Enter and now the control expects to receive data. Now you go to your PC and do your thing as you said.

Try using M99P2 in place of your GOTO call.

recordhound,
Normally there are two air lines to the VH5C. One is for the collet closer and the other is for the brake. The solenoid on the back of the controller is probably for the brake. When it...

imaginemw,
Will the head continue to go down if the main power switch is off?

Your R0 is okay. It would rapid the drill right to the surface of your part but you are then telling the machine to drill upwards. Needs to Z-.03

The Tapmatic unscrews from the holder. If you do not have the wrench that came with it you will have to make one. The two flats are at the top of the Tapmatic.

How long is the slot? You might try a series of drilled holes say 3/16 dia. along the length of the slot spaced next to each other. Then setup your end mill to plunge the webs out. offset the end...

hatch789,
I am not quite sure what differences there are between your machine and a 2UVR or 2UVR-c head if any. Is it a vari-drive head? If it is the same then removing the main belt is not too...

Hi Guys,
We have a strange problem with the servo coolant on one of our Fadals. When starting up it goes down to touch the spindle housing to initialize as usual but then snaps up all the way to the...

Hi R&R,

Are you sure there even is a brake on the Z axis? Normally when power is on, and the servos are on, the motor itself is "locked up" and prevents any movement of the axis unless commanded...

Good morning all,
I am in process of repairing a VH5C rotary unit and I have a question. The unit somehow got coolant inside the draw bar force multiplier area and some of the components are badly...

ASTR,

I have a bare BP spindle with a Erickson 30 Quick Switch out of a Series I
R2E3. Our situation was the opposite from yours. You would have to verify
that it would fit a Series II. Ours is...

Hi all you R2E3 guys,
I have a problem one of you guys may be able to help with. We hadn't used our Boss8 machine for quite a while and when my guy went to set up a job the pulse generator for the...

Hi all you R2E3 guys,
I have a problem one of you guys may be able to help with. We hadn't used our Boss8 machine for quite a while and when my guy went to set up a job the pulse generator for the...

Hi Guys,
I copied your program with notepad and then inserted it into NCPlot exactly
as it was. Loaded it into a CNC88 machine running in format 1. Typed in
four fixture offset locations. I used...

Double wire above and single wire at bottom.

Sorry for the short answer, In a big to get out of here.

Gary

Years ago in a shop I worked in had a machine that was just like you described.
I believe the machine was an old MOREY hand profiler that used hand cranks for x and y. Sort of worked like a...

Give this example a try

T1M6(CENTER DRILL
G0G90X1.Y1.
M3S2600M8
H1G0Z1.5 ( THIS IS IF YOUR Z 0 IS SET TO THE TOP OF PART
G98G81X1.Y1.R.1Z-.2F6.
G99X2.
G98X3.
X4.

Has anyone ever tried to gauge the condition of their belleville springs by lowering the air pressure way down and then slowly raising it until the tool will release? Maybe when you replace them...

One thing to remember in the Z depths in G81 ect. is that the first Z is
the full depth from the point at which you start the cycle not it's relationship
to Z0. If you make your first Z .500 but...

Cellar Dweller,
You are correct, the control handles the Z differently between milling and some of the canned cycles such as G81 and G83 ect. In milling it is just as you would think however in G81,...

Hi Guys,
If you want to avoid having the head going up to TC position after completing a part use M99P# (program jump). If you are only using one tool and don't want the spindle orient every time,...

Hi Guys,
In looking at your two examples of code it seems to me that both items start and finish at the same point. This being the case it is like not putting the x and y coordinates in at all and...

Hi George, Would not that be closer to 27 years old?