Jersey John
Stainless
- Joined
- May 29, 2015
- Location
- Beccles / Suffolk, United Kingdom
Hi folk
Seems like my "New" FP2 is haunting me right now
It arrive around a month ago and has not done any work until this morning when I started to make some brackets for my newly arrived DRO system.
It had been working fine in the X axis with the powerfeed and manual use of the X and Z handwheels for about an hour then I started to get oil drips from both sides of the main apron around the lower bellows area. This I felt reasonably happy with as the oil galleries had been recently cleaned from grease contamination.
Then being a true Brit I decided to stop for a cup of tea as one bracket was just complete.
Having return to the machine some 45 minutes later I began to setup for another bracket only to find the "X" handwheel locked solid! On closer examination I also saw the "Operators" end lead screw end cap had opened up to around 0.75mm/0.030" which I'd not seen or noticed earlier. Together with this the "X" scale dials have started to seperate.
My first conclusion was that the machine had a new X axis leadscrew nut fitted prior to delivery and something has failed.
On further investigation with power on there was NO POWER to the X, Y or Z feeds???
Now something from the distant past is telling me there is a safety "Shear pin" somewhere and if this fails all power feeds are lost???
I'm also concerned that the operators end "End Cap" has moved??
Nothing has been working at extreme limits of travel (today my maximum X cuts were around 125mm) and last week and prior to today's work I tested all three sets of trip dogs for my own peace of mind (all functioned as they should).
All comments greatly welcomed Pictures of today's stopage shown below.
MTIA
John
Seems like my "New" FP2 is haunting me right now
It arrive around a month ago and has not done any work until this morning when I started to make some brackets for my newly arrived DRO system.
It had been working fine in the X axis with the powerfeed and manual use of the X and Z handwheels for about an hour then I started to get oil drips from both sides of the main apron around the lower bellows area. This I felt reasonably happy with as the oil galleries had been recently cleaned from grease contamination.
Then being a true Brit I decided to stop for a cup of tea as one bracket was just complete.
Having return to the machine some 45 minutes later I began to setup for another bracket only to find the "X" handwheel locked solid! On closer examination I also saw the "Operators" end lead screw end cap had opened up to around 0.75mm/0.030" which I'd not seen or noticed earlier. Together with this the "X" scale dials have started to seperate.
My first conclusion was that the machine had a new X axis leadscrew nut fitted prior to delivery and something has failed.
On further investigation with power on there was NO POWER to the X, Y or Z feeds???
Now something from the distant past is telling me there is a safety "Shear pin" somewhere and if this fails all power feeds are lost???
I'm also concerned that the operators end "End Cap" has moved??
Nothing has been working at extreme limits of travel (today my maximum X cuts were around 125mm) and last week and prior to today's work I tested all three sets of trip dogs for my own peace of mind (all functioned as they should).
All comments greatly welcomed Pictures of today's stopage shown below.
MTIA
John
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