conceptsmachine
Aluminum
- Joined
- Jan 19, 2005
- Location
- DeSoto, IA
Hey guys, wondering if anyone can help me out? Never had this happen before in all my years.
I was machining some plastic parts today on a vacuum fixture. 12 tools in the program, 6.30 cycle time. Vacuum fixture part. Running away, just hitting the start button. Was on about part number 70 When CRUNCH!!!! I have H and T match on in parameters. It was supposed to pick up tool 3 but it somehow grabbed 7 and thought it had the right tool and it smashed it. First time this machine had ever crashed. I was proud of the record haha.
Anyone know what might have happened and anything I can check?
It reset the tool atc somehow because my tools where all mixed up. I needed to offset all down .01
And also reface my fixture. Stinks man...
So after I did the ATC reset it wouldn't change one on the t3...kept on giving me an alarm. Finally took after calling up different tools. It just didn't want to take t3, but finally it took. Put all my tools back in and started making parts again. I'm afraid it may happen again...
The machine started dropping tools a week or so ago... wouldn't clamp in time. Only did it a couple times and it seemed it did it when the machine was very stuffy with coolant mist and plastic chips.
Is it just a.bunch of bad luck at once or is something going wrong with my ATC and draw bar?
I took off the ATC cover and made sure all was clean. Looked like the proximity switch was working right, but it was a bit dirty so I cleaned it good.
Thanks for any tips.
I was machining some plastic parts today on a vacuum fixture. 12 tools in the program, 6.30 cycle time. Vacuum fixture part. Running away, just hitting the start button. Was on about part number 70 When CRUNCH!!!! I have H and T match on in parameters. It was supposed to pick up tool 3 but it somehow grabbed 7 and thought it had the right tool and it smashed it. First time this machine had ever crashed. I was proud of the record haha.
Anyone know what might have happened and anything I can check?
It reset the tool atc somehow because my tools where all mixed up. I needed to offset all down .01
And also reface my fixture. Stinks man...
So after I did the ATC reset it wouldn't change one on the t3...kept on giving me an alarm. Finally took after calling up different tools. It just didn't want to take t3, but finally it took. Put all my tools back in and started making parts again. I'm afraid it may happen again...
The machine started dropping tools a week or so ago... wouldn't clamp in time. Only did it a couple times and it seemed it did it when the machine was very stuffy with coolant mist and plastic chips.
Is it just a.bunch of bad luck at once or is something going wrong with my ATC and draw bar?
I took off the ATC cover and made sure all was clean. Looked like the proximity switch was working right, but it was a bit dirty so I cleaned it good.
Thanks for any tips.