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  1. K

    X612 won't fire

    We are fairly new to lasers and have a 2500w Mazak X612 that has been down for a while. It will travel to the start of the cut, the head will drop to the correct height off the material, but it won't fire. The technicians that have been out to look at are down to having us pull boards one by...
  2. K

    Open Gear Lube?

    Thanks for all the replies! I'll have to check some of these out. These are big slow moving 6'-10' open gears. The new stuff we got was supposed to evaporate and harden, but it just keeps dripping. For the amount we have to apply, and with all the guarding, it was always easier to just...
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    Open Gear Lube?

    We used to have open gear lube that was the consistency of heavy tar for the big gears on our older presses. We had to heat it up to pour it on to the gears. It was a pain to apply, but worked very well. Lately we haven't been able to find anything similar, and the lighter weight stuff is...
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    Blanchard grinder just started pulling too many amps

    Bill, I think your post just made my day. After I read it, I went out to take another look. The start contactor closes fine, the gear driven relay for the run contactor closes, then the run contactor closes then pops between open and closed which would explain why the amp meter was jumping so...
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    Blanchard grinder just started pulling too many amps

    Yea, just dressed the stones this morning because it was pulling too many amps when I ran it last week. Today it went into a whole other realm of pulling too many amps. I'll do some more testing in the AM. Thanks for the info regarding the teardown procedure. Hope I don't have to use it...
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    Blanchard grinder just started pulling too many amps

    This is a WWII era Blanchard so I assume the motor has brushes. It has been with our company since new and has had a pretty easy life. All three legs are hot in the wiring after the contactor/overload relays until it blows the overloads. It pretty much has to be in the motor. I've been...
  7. K

    Blanchard grinder just started pulling too many amps

    Grinding plates on a Blanchard No18, has always been fine, but today it started pegging the amp meter running at .004/min feed with hardly any spark. It's now tripping the overload relays as soon as it makes any contact at all. Anyone have any experience with this? It has power on all three...
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    Ready Power 12v generator - forklift battery substitute

    My understanding is that this unit was sold to people who, for whatever reason, couldn't have charging downtime, couldn't stop to replace a battery, or didn't use the unit regularly enough to keep up a good charging schedule. Also, from what I understand, they were well more expensive than a...
  9. K

    Ready Power 12v generator - forklift battery substitute

    Unfortunately there is no packing gland on this unit. :( Here are some pictures. Thanks, Phillip
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    Ready Power 12v generator - forklift battery substitute

    Well, no telling last time this unit had been run, but it doesn't look like it has been run much. I did find out the engine is a Hercules ZXB-3. This morning I pulled the plugs and oiled the cylinders. This afternoon I spun it over by hand, cleaned up some odd wiring, hooked it up to a forklift...
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    Ready Power 12v generator - forklift battery substitute

    I picked up a Ready-Power generator unit at an auction last weekend, and unfortunately I can't seem to find much information on them. What I do know is that they were sold as a drop-in engine powered replacement for forklift batteries back in the 1960s or so. The one I have is model W-12 (12...
  12. K

    Torch Height Control for Whitney Punch/Plasma with Hypertherm Max 200??

    Jim, Thanks for the info. If you say a torch height control won't work well...I trust you on that. I did talk to Whitney, and they have a "halo" available which senses when the guard comes off and shuts the machine down. I guess this might be our only option. It isn't that the pieces fall...
  13. K

    How to punch a joggle hook?

    Take a look at he top row, second from the left. Whitney Special Tooling -Phillip
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    Torch Height Control for Whitney Punch/Plasma with Hypertherm Max 200??

    Over the past year and a half we have broken 3 machine torches on our Whitney Punch/Plasma machine. The Whitney design uses a sort of a guard around the torch which has roller balls that ride across the top of the material to maintain torch clearance during the cut. Basically like this...
  15. K

    bend smallest radius with least distortion in 1/2" plate?

    As you go up in die width, you will put less stress on the bottom of the part. 5 times part width (2.5" with 1/2" material) is on the very lowest end of the spectrum for die width. I would use a wider die to reduce marking. If you need a tighter bend radius, using a 90deg die, coin the part a...
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