So here is my next project. It is a South Bend Lathe. PC based Magnaturn from the early to mid 80s. And probably had not been cleaned since that time also. Dug out over 15 gallons of crud from bottom of machine.
Machine ran from two floppy drives. When i got it from owner it was not working. Turned out to be one of the floppies was corrupted.Got it running....but what a pig on power. It has a 15HP 3 phase motor that ran a bunch of hydraulic cylinders and motors.
The system was very impressive tho. As the movement of axis was done with hydraulic cylinders and had scales for closing the loop. I did position tests of .0005" with no problems. But, machine just took to many amps to run. Took about 50amps to get it started!
Here is some pics of bringing it home and before it got a LONG over do bath.
Troy