HI, that's a strange situation.......if the licence states specifically for a CNC machine, what about all the add on bits that go as peripherals and could number in the hundreds if you wanted to exaggerate.
China must have a special high volume foreign trade department specifically geared to printing licences in bulk with a rubber stamp for the first million bundle if the World market is anything to go by.
That other explanation for the long delay in these machines being exported as it takes so long to hand print a licence on rice paper....LOL.......the rice paper is not as absorbent as conventional paper, so the ink takes longer to dry.
But I digress.......when is a CNC machine considered a CNC machine?......when it is a turn key item?......or to be more exact, would you consider the machine to be a CNC one if it is a bare bones basic machine like the SVM-0 with ER32 spindle or the advanced package like I ordered that has the ISO 20 spindle and a High Speed Spindle too complete in an enclosed cabinet etc along with a collection of items to make it more enhanced.
What I am saying is.......does the machine have to work out of the box as a turnkey CNC machine per se, or must it be further enhanced by adding a tool changer and power drawbar to make it a "real" commercial interpretation of the CNC aspect as opposed to a hobby mill with CNC characteristics.
If that be the case, then it is a CNC machine if the design is orientated specifically in that direction, as opposed to being a manual mill that is reworked in another factory and exported as a CNC machine with all the bells and whistles etc but which it really is not.
But if the licence calls for a complete package with electronics etc, then does it also state that the damm thing must work at point of destination?........the 6040 routers are not reliable in that context as many people who experience trouble with the controllers change them over to Gecko's and dump the supplied "blue" box.
The buyer still has to supply a computer and cad/cam package to make the machine work, so it is not all that turnkey in the end.
I would say that if the SVM-0 machine was supplied with a "blue" box that only paid lip service to being a controller and only added a dollar or two to the package cost as it was going to be dumped anyway, that would cover the licence requirements and allow a replacement of the electronics as the buyer desired.
Better to have the electronics sourced locally and warranted than all the way back to China under warranty at buyer's cost.
BTW, the machine I have on order does not have a power drawbar fitted to release the tooling even though it has the drawbar with Bellville washers in place to hold the tools in the spindle, (it is my responsibility to make and fit it) so it cannot be a CNC machine per se if you can't supply tools to the spindle or remove them......you can't even mount a tool in the spindle without some means to push the drawbar down.
The same analogy would therefore apply to a machine that did not have an electronic controller fitted as part of the package but could be by the buyer.
As so many variable have been accumulated from the word go to make the mill(s) what they now are, adding another variable by removing the electronic content would not sink the ship.
Judging by the photos in previous threads of the various electronic components, they are well put together, if a book can be judged by it's cover, but can add a huge amount of time to a mill build package as is now apparent.
Ian.
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