Hello Everyone.
I'm starting this build thread with 2 main purposes. First, since this is my first machine and my first retrofit, maybe some of you heavy hitters can help a newbie, as cncsnw and Al The Man already have. Second is that I hope others can benefit from something I'm sharing. This machine is part of the metal fab shop I have created to hopefully start building off-road buggies and similar fab products. This machine is my baby, though.
I purchased the machine about 4 yrs ago from a man here in Vegas by the name of Mel White. Many of you probably know him. He is a great guy and has went out of his way to help me on more than one occasion. This is a machine that Mel actually produced in 1990-1992 or so. It has a rigid head and is built like a tank. I bought it with a Hust control which slowly degraded in functionality to where I could only use MDI one line at a time. I finally (after years of lurking here and other sites) purchased the Ajax system for 3rd party drives and am currently about 95% on the retrofit. I've had to rewire all 3 servos, all 3 limits switches and the entire electrical panel. I decided to use the old control panel and adapt it to its new 15" flat screen monitor. I used the old mill one last time to fabricate the new front for the panel. I built a shallow box to house the new monitor and the new control panel and attached it to the front of the old control cabinet. I decided to install the PC in this same cabinet. I cut up the PC's case into subsections and mounted them inside the cabinet. Everything is modualar and I can replace any part of the PC just as easily as if it were in a regualr PC case. I'm going to attempt to post some pics here for the first time. These pics are the "before" pics.
Thanks for looking and for any help/comments you may have,
Dave