old school iron

[mkd]

http://machinerynetworkauctions.com/brochures/MARCH-5-2013-WEB.pdf

 

wish i knew how to retrofit some of these ancient controls to PC based.

Make some money, then upgrade to modern servos to rival today's top shelf stuff.

[gcode]

One of those machines might be a good fit at this place.

Buy it cheap, retrofit it it and make it a dedicated small vane machine.

Ø50" is too small for a lot of our vanes but we do enough in that range that

you could set it up for our small vanes and do nothing else with it.

It would cut setup time to near zero

[Pilot Plant Supervisor]

Some serious stuff there!

[mkd]

One of those machines might be a good fit at this place.

Buy it cheap, retrofit it it and make it a dedicated small vane machine.

Ø50" is too small for a lot of our vanes but we do enough in that range that

you could set it up for our small vanes and do nothing else with it.

It would cut setup time to near zero

how 'bout i buy one, and you offload all your vane work in that size range?

did i mention i work for peanuts?

 

that cinncinati T30 with the 950 control would be a nice compliment to your profiler = same brand / control!

[Newbeeee™]

That SNK and Rigid are sweet looking machines.

How much would you have to throw at a retrofit - prolly around £40k here ($70?) for a siemens. Sweet machine for the money then...

[GoetzInd]

The one think that would make me nervous on an old 5 axis mill like that would we the condition of the worm and wheel on the rotaries.

 

Mike

[mkd]

SNK has a fanuc 16m control and a spare spindle assembly. no need to upgrade unless you're seriously trying to set the world on fire.

 

 

seems odd that a company setup to do some fairly exotic work has gone under. management problems or someone with more capitol investment on more modern faster more reliable machinery could undercut their piece price and delivery?

this is in zoober's stomping ground, right?

[mkd]

The one think that would make me nervous on an old 5 axis mill like that would we the condition of the worm and wheel on the rotaries.

 

Mike

 

we'll just throw these new type of gears into.

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

From what I've heard you can do a PC based retrofit for about 6K.

[Sticky]

Does anyone know what kind of travels the SNK mill has? That brochure is lacking a lot of detailed/important info on the machines...

[Newbeeee™]

MKD - That design of rotary has the same gear design that hitachi used on the hicels - ie a roller bearing running in a slot.

VERY WEAK - when a tip went on a boring bar at a previous place, this caused the part to come out of the chuck (2" dia stainless x 3" long by memory).

It put a flat on the slot where the roller bearing ran meaning at that tool position, the tool would then rock back and forth. The answer was a new turret which was big bucks.

For lathes I don't think you can beat hirth type couplings = rigidity, because accidents do happen.

 

That said, Akiri Seiki make some nice very fast stuff - their opposed axis drill/tappers are wicked fast.

I dont think this design is aproblem if you high speed (fast tlight cuts) style approach. Start banging big udrills in and the thing would probably chatter/bang anyway as the table is not a supported trunnion.

 

Can't think who said it previously - we refer to this style as the waiters arm - someone here refered to it as the toilet pan!!!