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Takisawa Astroturn DTX-1 Retro Fit
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garageboy21
Hi all,
I have the oppertunity to get a Takisawa DTX-1 for next to nothing and was hoping that someone out there had any experience with retrofitting the control on one. It has a Fanuc 5T now, and I am wondering about the DC spindle and whether or not the servo motors are brushless. Basicly, would you recommend trying to get this lathe going? Thank you! Dustin |
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I had 2 different older CNC mills with Fanuc controls 6MB and 11M both blew
there spindle drives which were expensive to repair/replace. I never had trouble with any other components. The early models like mine were dc brush servos with +-10 analog drives ( I think this is standard until 16 on ?) depending on wether you have Rs232 and what parts are in need of replacement fixing the Fanuc control may be cost effective. If it doesn't communicate with a computer and the spindle drive is bad I would retro fit it. |
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The Dc spindle drive is driven with a binary code not analog and the servo
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takes analog but you will probably have to change the feedback from resolver to encoder. I recommend using the Machinemate CNC which can handle the whole machine without any problem. THe cnc with 48 inputs and 34 outputs and 4 axes of control. Harko On 6/9/06, garageboy21 <garageboy21@...> wrote:
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Lee
You guys may know what I am looking at here. I have a 1985 Bridgeprt
R2G4 Series I with Fanuc 11MA controller. Lots of manuals but little discription of what I need to know. Trying to interface with a PC so I can write programs and send to CNC but everything is so old, I don't even know what I am looking for. I wish I could find a command on the controller that said, send program to PC, then I would know I am communicating. ALso, If I could just punch in Gcode in MDI Mode on controller and "SAVE AS" I could do some work. Are there any software updates for this stuff? Easy way to retrofit up 20 years? Any other user or owners groups?? thanks Lee |
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archie road
LEE,
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go to www.cnczone.com and search R2E4 and look for "drip fed" also (copied this from somewhere) There are actually 4 manuals for this machine R2E4 . Maintenance, parts, programming, and operating. It sounds that you do not have the operating manual. Search Ebay and machinemanuals.net as there was a BOSS communicating kit for about 50 dollars including software. Port A is used for editing and program transfer. Port B is for DNC and for program transfer by software called EZLINK. MDI executes a line of program and forgets it. MDI STORE does the same but remembers it so you can build a program into memory. It does have a help function where it prompts you for what it needs but does not give enough detail. Hope this helps I am getting a R2E4 soon I hope. it is coming out of a school. Happy Hunting archie =) =) =) Lee wrote: You guys may know what I am looking at here. I have a 1985 Bridgeprt |
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