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WARNING TO ALL MACHINE SHOP OWNERS

If DMG MORI UK Ltd charging over £100/hour for a service engineer wasn’t bad enough,
Having issues with work carried out.
Overpriced DMG only...

Hi Folks,
We have a problem on our recently aquired 1999 Fusion 640T powered QT250

The graphics / text is all over one side meaning soft key buttons don't line up, the LHS strip is not visable,...

Hi Folks,
Our Fanuc alpha i 8/20000 spindle motor (A06B-1497-B145) (superceeded by A06B-1497-B901) about 10 years old, is electrically 100% ok but has developed lots of play at the spindle coupling...

Did you have any joy getting hold of the flash files for your RT CPU PCB ?
I have the same problem with 2 of my PCB's out of A500's Both G486VPC, one older with UMC I/O chipset and one newer with...

Hi Folks,
I have just placed a couple of ads in the employment opportunity section, if anyone fancies a well paid new job ?

1 x Miller Programmer / Setter £25-40K
1 x Turner Programmer / Setter...

CNC Miller / programmer / setter required for busy AS9100 aerospace certified precision engineering workshop. Any applicants must be fully conversant with G code programming and have experience with...

CNC Turner / programmer / setter required for busy AS9100 aerospace certified precision engineering workshop. Any applicants must be fully conversant with G code programming and have experience with...

Oh Dear !,

A2100 hard drives use NTFS
by reading in a pc which isn't NTFS eg: a XP machine, you might have screwed it up.

If you get windows NT4 OS and set up an old pc on it, it is then safe...

Hi Folks,

I done a clearance and bought a job lot of gear from a closed up comapny which amoungst all the rubbish and bent tool holders included some pc's and dongles.

I couldn't believe my...

Thanks Al,

I think FanRam is the one I saw years ago
Iv'e sent him a price request.

Cheers

Tricky

Hi Greenery,

Thanks for the link.

Strange google hadn't picked up that site in any of my searches !

They do some great looking kit and I have asked them for some prices.

Cheers

Hi Guys,

Our Fanuc 15MAF (1989 ish) control I think has the max amount of memory which Fanuc do as standard.

It also gives us RAM parity errors every now again.
(have checked options match...

We are looking to purchase immediately a used Integrex 200 SY machine with 10,000rpm+ milling spindle and a minimum of 40 tool ATC (Capto or KM).

(Puma MX or Mori MT1500 or 2000 with sub spindle...

in the UK you would be looking at £250 each for a re-grind and new balls,
(thats if you take them out and send them away yourself)

I would also change the thrust bearings as well.

I'm sure...

Thanks for the info guys,

We spoke to Haas service and their tech guy ran through various revisons which have gone on over the years.

Imagine my shock when he told us that you can't retrofit...

Hi Gar,
"A 486 does not define a PC based control."
I actually said a 486 PC motherboard which means using a standard desktop pc off the shelf part, and maybe changing the bios chip etc.

Hi...

Hi Gar,
Those are some nice parts you have made there,
Much like the sort of parts we make.

The transition mark is common on any machine that has got badly adjusted backlash, worn...

Hi Folks,

We are about to out our 4 Arrow 500's with A2100 control on in the next few weeks and are struggling to find some thing to replace them with.

We don't want any more A2100 machines...

Did you have Fanuc or other experience before you got into Fadal's ?

Hi folks,
we are outing our 4 cinci' Arrow 500 vmc's and A2100 control all around 1996.

The A2100 is a good (when it works) but a bit tempremental control which isn't supported very well any more...

Blxxdy hell !

You are screwed.

The bios settings on the motherboard are read by the A2100 application software and if they are not spot on it will be just like the board not being there.

You...

We use OneCnc XR2 Pro at the moment for milling, some old basic thing for doing geometry for turning.

We have never used a proper CAM system for turning, but with our new machine on its way we...

Thanks for the info

Its a Gildemester made in Italy.

I think you might be a bit biased considering your job :rolleyes:

But all sugestions greatfully received :)

Hi Mike,

Its a CTX310 V6 with Fanuc 32i
(8" chuck, 65mm bore, 6" sub spindle, full C to both, Y axis, B axis to move sub)

The options on software arn't important at the moment, we are going to...

Hi folks,

Anyone use EC 10.5 to do lathe work with c,y axis and sub spindle ?

Desperatly trying to find a easy to use package which dosn't require me to cut and paste several programs together....

I thought I would keep you all posted on my progress with One CNC XR2 Pro. with 4th axis.

We had our training from Peter last week here in our office.

Within a few hours we were drawing stuff...

A chap from OneCNC USA did indeed promptly leave a voicemail for me at my office, which I only just got today. (Due to an unfortunate incident with a ladder which has ended up with me immobile, in...

We have had a few problems getting to grips with XR.

Having been told to pay extra to get our 4th axis support which were promised for free isn't helping either. I will have 2 of my guys trained...

We upgraded from OneCNC XP to XR and were prommised as part of my deal 4th axis support upgrade free of charge as soon as it came out.

Now its out we have bee told by our UK agent that we can't...

Hi,
We are considering getting some software like DNC-Max which will allow us to link up all our machines to a terminal server over an ethernet connection. Can we use any old surplus terminal server...