I simple greened everything, then pulled the two axis. I want to clean the metal back to silver and I dont want my compound in the dovetail slots so I pulled everything to do the polishing on the bench. ball screws feel a little notchy, but they are not on the grease circuit, they have pressure grease ports but they are manual. Im hoping its just a lack of lubrication as the ball screw looks clean
I found a turret control PCBA design built for linuxcnc using the custom board and an arduino. Its called the "toolerator 3000". this is pretty much what I had planned to do myself. Props to the author for the open source. I will need to change over the linuxcnc code to mach3 code, but the skeleton of the code is there and I think it is enough to have the framework to make it work. the link is here If someone has already adapted this setup to mach3 please let me know, I will also try to get some help over at the artsoft site. This looks like a huge time saver for me.
A note for those wanting to use the Vexta drives. I did not receive connectors with my motor controllers. these are expensive connectors!. part numbers are Phoenix Contact. 3 position 1792252, 5 position 1792278, and 9 position 1792317. I got them from Mouser, Digikey did not have all three.
I installed KiCAD on my computer and opened the design files for the Toolenator3000 PCB. Exported gerbers and netlist from KiCAD and sent them to a proto board house. I should get 10 bare Toolenator3000 pcb's in a few weeks.
5hp 3ph motor is mounted
here's a CAD of the Toolenator 3000 PCBA. I'm working to identify all of the components to create a costed BoM
motor pulley mounted and aligned, x and z axis in the cooker. The BoM for the toolerator 3000 pcba is figured out (mostly) and I should be getting bare PCB's delivered tomorrow DHL.
reassembled the x-axis slide, the oiler lines, and the z-axis slide. completed the Toolerator 3000 BoM and ordered 2 sets of parts from Digi-Key and Mouser. I also ordered a chinese solder station, looks ok, we will see. Certainly should be better than the radio shack one I have had for years.
woohoo pcb's are here
also got a little work done on the lathe. got ball screws and stepper mounts attached tonight for both axis
Hi
Welcome to the club of Emco owners, I do not know did you cleaned ballscrews (all the way to the balls), I wanted to tell you it is not complicated, I found in mine lot of dirt (metal chips) so they are pretty damaged
https://youtu.be/9GJcuLVlv5g?t=15m16s
and new one are expensive x and z axis 950 Euro plus VAT.
You can rewind video to 15 minute , from there starts interesting part.
Looks like you will be soon done with conversion
I looked at the screws and they did not have damage as shown in your excellent video. The notchiness seems to only be present if the screw is completely unloaded, with any pressure at all they are smooth, so I did not want to chance taking them apart with the screw showing no issue. I oiled the shaft and put it all together, they are not hard to remove so worst case I will remove them later if there is any issue.
from this (page 9) im going to get this superlube because I cant find any of the nye products listed and get this Amazon.com: Astro 101 Mini Grease Gun with Needle Nozzle: Home Improvement to deal with the flush grease fittings
Emco spec. Castrol Spheerol Epl- 2 | Castrol United Kingdom | Grease - Off-Road Products | Castrol United Kingdom | Off-Road - Motor Oil & Lubricants | Castrol United Kingdom | Products | Castrol United Kingdom | Castrol - Motor Oil & Lubricants | Castrol United or a very basic NLGI2 like Castrol LM.
got the toolerator 3000 pcba built but not tested. still need to get a 24vdc power supply and the turret reassembled
the Dell FX170 arrived today as well as the ball screw grease, 24vdc, 5vdc power supplies and the small rj45 BOB.
Hello
Good to see another Emco CNC lathe under restoration.
Similar project here: I am working on a Machinekit retrofit for a 120P.
Currently I am finalizing the control panel and the PLC software.
Emco Turn 120P | F1OAT CNC experiments
Frederic.
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