Helpful tip, grind a small notch on inside both jaws of a set of needle nost pliers for stubborn lock nuts on electrical equipment. Multiple places sell pliers that way, but for free and 5 min wirth of work you get a tool that works the same. It really beats the screwdriver and hammer method, plus there is less risk of damage to other components in the process.
I have access to a relatively large CNC which hasn't been in use for several years, I guess the maintenance was very poor the machine is full with oil, chips, dust, rust, dust mixed with oil (from the manual machinery nearby). I wonder as a repair guy do you also clean those machines or ask the owner to do some minimal cleaning before. The machine I'm in front at the moment looks like someone dumped it into a dirt bath and took it out again, when climbing inside it's like eeh I don't want to touch anything there without some minimal cleaning (there's like 1-2 mm sticky dirt on many parts) I want to use the machine for some of my projects, the overall structure looks fine it certainly needs some maintenance (I'm currently recovering the controller (putting settings from the manufacturer back), and possibly change it to linuxcnc afterwards). The owner gave me access to it for free and he'd be happy to have me work for him like a few hours every week for some parts. My benefit is the free access for my own commercial projects..
Hi, I have a shuttle motor from a 2020 Minimill I had to replace, I have the one that went bad, the technician says it doesn't worth the shame to try to repair it but I think it does since there is a reduction box attached to it, do you guys fix these or have a use for the it?
They are around, not a lot of support for them. I have a meldas based lathe, since I got it it has never run. It is out as soon as I get a chance to deal with it, or a need for a replacement. No one seems to know how to work on them.
I love these videos...please keep up the good work. Hope to see your channel grow!
Helpful tip, grind a small notch on inside both jaws of a set of needle nost pliers for stubborn lock nuts on electrical equipment. Multiple places sell pliers that way, but for free and 5 min wirth of work you get a tool that works the same. It really beats the screwdriver and hammer method, plus there is less risk of damage to other components in the process.
Good pro tip on the rag to turn the ballscrew
This man is the closest real-life resemblance I've ever seen to space engineer Charles Tucker the Third from Startrek Enterprise series!
This will be useful for my CNC retrofit replacing the Fanuc red servos
Just curious, why get rid of the FANUC red caps?
@@sshep7119 I will be replacing the control with LinuxCNC and can't adapt the red caps to work due to the proprietary pulse-coders
Great video!
thanks for the videos
I have access to a relatively large CNC which hasn't been in use for several years, I guess the maintenance was very poor the machine is full with oil, chips, dust, rust, dust mixed with oil (from the manual machinery nearby). I wonder as a repair guy do you also clean those machines or ask the owner to do some minimal cleaning before. The machine I'm in front at the moment looks like someone dumped it into a dirt bath and took it out again, when climbing inside it's like eeh I don't want to touch anything there without some minimal cleaning (there's like 1-2 mm sticky dirt on many parts)
I want to use the machine for some of my projects, the overall structure looks fine it certainly needs some maintenance (I'm currently recovering the controller (putting settings from the manufacturer back), and possibly change it to linuxcnc afterwards).
The owner gave me access to it for free and he'd be happy to have me work for him like a few hours every week for some parts. My benefit is the free access for my own commercial projects..
Hi, I have a shuttle motor from a 2020 Minimill I had to replace, I have the one that went bad, the technician says it doesn't worth the shame to try to repair it but I think it does since there is a reduction box attached to it, do you guys fix these or have a use for the it?
That was easy. Thanks
I'm just curious, how often do you get to see Mitsubishi Meldas based Controllers in the U.S?
They are around, not a lot of support for them. I have a meldas based lathe, since I got it it has never run. It is out as soon as I get a chance to deal with it, or a need for a replacement. No one seems to know how to work on them.
@@sshep7119 can you tell me which problem you are facing? I have a Meldas mill, we are waiting for some settings from the manufacturer at the moment
what would cause a haas AC motor to trip an alarm while only retracting Z at full rapid? 50% doesn't happen
What alarm...
"Encoder has a glass scale, don't drop it." Proceeds to smack it with a hammer?!
I am the hammer man! lol
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