Yea you shouldn’t be machining if you are staying away from those older machines. I have a fadal15 and old mori seiki cl20. Tolerances were 3 tenth’s on mori and 3thou on fadal. Retrofitted both and kept them running at today’s demands using xometry to put them to use. If you get a deal, take it. You will learn a lot about machining. Not just how to push buttons. These older machines allow entry level machinists opening a new show to have great rigidity at a great price.
Bought a 2008 tm3 haas from a machine action selling company gosh never been cleaned had to have Setco rebuild spindle in every way possible I'm wondering if I should buy a new belt old one seems ok it's in my basement a 2006 tl1 also cleaner but I need help tramming the spindle to the table I'm willing to buy a 10 x6 x1 granite square to check x to y and those to z first East tn here so u take on jobs for good pay I have a starrett no 199 master level if so hola I'll pay should be a one time thing
Clearly this one has not heard of dripfeed and other retrofits that make RS-232based CNCs usable. Speed might not be up there with new purchase modern machines, but if it can run and can CNC, it’s Better than literally nothing at all.
Thanks for the explanation. Currently have a triple crown situation (plugged lines, caused a clogged pump, which blew the relay fuses)… currently have a bridgeport style hand pump on the CNC to flush the lines out 😁🔪
Strange issue. 2 of my machines will stop and on the screen it will say "waiting". Most of the time I hit reset and the machines will run fine. I'm running 2 Haas mills on a Phase Perfect phase converter. Any ideas?
It’s probably worn encoder belts and pulleys. I’ve got a video about checking them. It’s a little different depending on what model machine you have but it’s similar if you need parts, give us a call.
You need more experience to have this kind of opinion . Tons of these machines in our system. BUT I do agree that the MFG that are out of business i.e. Hitachi Seiki , Cincinatti, but all the Fadal still have good support . His statement is to broad in my opinion
We have a FEMCO V-12 49" VTL. Tried taking off the bottom plate of the tool holder to get to the spring and mass chuck. I can only get it to drop about 1/4" not sure what holding it up. Used a jack and a pc of wood while loosening the blots , but it won't release. Any helpful tips to get it off to see if the springs need to be replaced?
i'm in school for industrial maintenance right now and think cnc machines are fascinating, i want to get into cnc repair badly but it's such a niche trade and it's been really hard to find resources. felt like finding buried treasure coming across your channel! please don't ever apologize for being long-winded, in fact i would love some more in-depth "explain it like i'm five" videos lol. it's helpful for newbies like me!
Nicely done, man! Thanks for taking the time and walking thru the process! I was able to successfully establish a good handshake with a usb to db25 interface.
Hey buddy, I'm working for a shop with old 25 pin rs 232 ports. I,'m going to buy an old pc to download and upload programs. I'm not a pc guru but can run a pc. What do I buy as far as an old pc? Serial port, parallel port, etc. 9 pin or 25? Thanks for consideration. Herb
My vf-0e tried to delete itself. Thanks to cnc repairman I was able to get tools, parts and education to fix that machine and make many chips. Just bought some parts to fix the way covers.
I sheared the back of the switch off. Then someone brought me a new switch and I sheared that one too. I think I'm getting good at this shearing business. I now have a special button.
See it all the time. Obsolete controls and drives. Very long lead times for mechanical parts not common anymore. Shops not doing lube system PM's, killing the ways. Big expensive crashes. Not cleaning underneath the way covers, packing in so many chips the servo load goes through the roof and everything rusts because they don't keep an eye on their coolant concentrations either. Crappy incomplete repairs done in the past that cost tons to rectify correctly (plant manager was jumping up and down yelling "we just need it to run!"). Machine is depreciated out, they need to move it to make room for a new one and can't find a buyer. Lots of reasons.
That's because most shops put uneducated operators on them, run this **** out of them 20 hours a day, and don't have any maintenance on them until something goes down and breaks. It's really sad because the price of these machines is outrageous. We had 25 + year old Okuma LB-15's in our shop that were well taken care of and still held a thousandth tolerance all day long. We rebuilt spindles, replace drive units, and rebuilt turrets on these machines as needed, and they never let us down. We owned over 80 Okuma mills, lathes and Multus machines in our lifetime at our business and they were all rock solid.....
I have a usb adapter to rs232 worked fine for years now all of a sudden I get an error message on the computer "unable to open port" any ideas what could cause this? have not changed any settings.
I was having some problems sending a program to the machine when I noticed a blank space just before the end of another program that I downloaded from the machine It may have had an invisible character because when I copied and pasted the blank line into my new program I was then able to send it to the machine. Is it possible that a blank line could contain some information?
Can you do an extensive video on Fadal gibs and straps (and what's exactly what) adjustment? There is only the manual on the internet, but not really a good video about it.
All of my machines are Reagan era. Two Mori Seiki and an Okuma. All make good parts, and make good money for me. They still hold tolerance! Take care of them, and they'll last. I've had them since new. Other than the paint, they're pristine.
I currently have an old vmc-100 I can find anything about online or anywhere for that matter it’s got a tag saying it was built in 1972 but I don’t know anything about it other then what the previous owner told me (it worked before I discontinued it) granted he was selling everything in his shop but that’s one of the ones he quit using before he closed his shop he started to use his manual horizontal mill rather than the vertical vmc-100 claimed it was easier to run simple parts on the manual Cincinnati horizontal mill. I have the original electric schematics and a lot of the original liter of the machine but can’t figure out how to simply tighten the belt after i replaced it before I even tried to run it and can’t get anything to move unless I press a button in the electric panels this thing has two rather large circuit panels and takes up twice the amount of space as a newer one but I’d just rather see it run then throw the money away I have invested already i already found and purchased a lot of tool holders fit it and have over 100 holders just for this machine I’d have to replace them if I got a different machine
