mTeryk
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Jul 4, 2010
- Location
- corvallis,or
It's been almost 3 weeks so I guess it's time to post up some pictures and info on my "new" FP2NC. Here it is in its new home.
I bought this machine from Ross. I know that for many of you the FP2NC is a pretty small machine but for me, it's the largest machine I have moved. With Ross's experience and help it was also the easiest and lowest stress machine I have moved. At his recommendation, I rented this drop deck air ride trailer and we simply rolled it on with his machine skates. Back at my place, I was able to roll it off right into my shop with some borrowed skates. I think in the future a drop deck trailer will be my go to rental for machine moves.
That's my girlfriend posing with the mill. It's amazing what bringing my better half along will do. Ross's shop is in a really beautiful part of California. We took a few days off and got an AirBnB a few miles from his shop. Went to the beach and saw some Redwoods the day before loading the mill and took a couple days to drive the 550 miles home with the mill, stopping near Mt. Shasta along the way.
It's taken some futzing to get the power supply worked out. That's a 10hp Rotary phase converter behind it in the picture. Upon spindle start up the voltage of the wild leg drops about 15% which was causing the control to reset. I've got it working by running the voltage output of the 380v transformer at +5% and swapping the leads until I found a setup that kept the control from resetting yet kept the spindle rotating correctly. I have another capacitor on the way which should help the voltage drop issue. It retrospect, I should have bought the Heavy Duty offered by American Rotary (or the Phase Perfect ..... )
Everything seems to be in really great shape on the mill. Once I got the power situation worked out, the control powers up and pretty much everything works as expected. The buttons on the control were pretty flakey, with some not working at all. I opened the cover on the control, hooked up my multi-meter on continuity test mode and bathed each button in Deoxit D5 while jogging the button until I got a nice clean connection. They all work great now.
I've got a few questions which I'll ask in a following post. For now here's a few more pictures of the mill and a big thank you to Ross for helping to make this sale and move go so smoothly. Ross took time out of his busy schedule to walk me through all the features of the mill which will really give me a head start in getting productive with it.
Here's the FP2NC with the FP1. The wide angle lens makes them seem almost comparable in size but in reality the FP2NC dwarfs the FP1.
Inside of the cabinet (pretty darn clean)
Control
Inside of the control
Closer up of table
That's it for now. Thanks again to Ross for all the help and for feeding my Deckel habit. I'm off to continue my search for Vacuoline 1419, which I'm beginning to suspect has been discontinued.
Teryk
I bought this machine from Ross. I know that for many of you the FP2NC is a pretty small machine but for me, it's the largest machine I have moved. With Ross's experience and help it was also the easiest and lowest stress machine I have moved. At his recommendation, I rented this drop deck air ride trailer and we simply rolled it on with his machine skates. Back at my place, I was able to roll it off right into my shop with some borrowed skates. I think in the future a drop deck trailer will be my go to rental for machine moves.
That's my girlfriend posing with the mill. It's amazing what bringing my better half along will do. Ross's shop is in a really beautiful part of California. We took a few days off and got an AirBnB a few miles from his shop. Went to the beach and saw some Redwoods the day before loading the mill and took a couple days to drive the 550 miles home with the mill, stopping near Mt. Shasta along the way.
It's taken some futzing to get the power supply worked out. That's a 10hp Rotary phase converter behind it in the picture. Upon spindle start up the voltage of the wild leg drops about 15% which was causing the control to reset. I've got it working by running the voltage output of the 380v transformer at +5% and swapping the leads until I found a setup that kept the control from resetting yet kept the spindle rotating correctly. I have another capacitor on the way which should help the voltage drop issue. It retrospect, I should have bought the Heavy Duty offered by American Rotary (or the Phase Perfect ..... )
Everything seems to be in really great shape on the mill. Once I got the power situation worked out, the control powers up and pretty much everything works as expected. The buttons on the control were pretty flakey, with some not working at all. I opened the cover on the control, hooked up my multi-meter on continuity test mode and bathed each button in Deoxit D5 while jogging the button until I got a nice clean connection. They all work great now.
I've got a few questions which I'll ask in a following post. For now here's a few more pictures of the mill and a big thank you to Ross for helping to make this sale and move go so smoothly. Ross took time out of his busy schedule to walk me through all the features of the mill which will really give me a head start in getting productive with it.
Here's the FP2NC with the FP1. The wide angle lens makes them seem almost comparable in size but in reality the FP2NC dwarfs the FP1.
Inside of the cabinet (pretty darn clean)
Control
Inside of the control
Closer up of table
That's it for now. Thanks again to Ross for all the help and for feeding my Deckel habit. I'm off to continue my search for Vacuoline 1419, which I'm beginning to suspect has been discontinued.
Teryk