skunkworks
Aluminum
- Joined
- Aug 9, 2007
- Location
- Holmen, Wi
Here is a blast from the past. (and now in proccess of a EMC2 conversion)
To explain the K&T
http://www.electronicsam.com/images/...DSCCurrent.JPG
http://www.electronicsam.com/images/KandT/oldkandt.JPG
This is a kerney & trecker horizontal machining center. It is named the Milwaukee matic IIIb. We had gotten it for the price of scrap maybe 15 years ago. Thought we could make it work and did. It has a GE controller on it that is all discrete components. Yes discrete components: ). It worked quite well for the past 15 years but finally died. It had linear and circular inturp up to 9.9999 inches (which wasn't that great but worked)
It has a 60-tool chain. 38"X36"X24" travel. Table that indexes at 5 degree increments. It has Ball screws through-out and tikko(sp) ways (think re-circulating roller bearings for way bearings)
Emc2 will be a nice match - it has ladder logic built in to do some of the tedious things like pallet and tool changes.
Right now it has hydraulic servos but the plan is to replace them with these or similar
http://www.electronicsam.com/images/KandT/DSC_0242.JPG
The emc group has done something similar to a mazak
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emc....pl?MazakRetro
also
http://webpages.charter.net/bengvall...onversion.html
sam
To explain the K&T
http://www.electronicsam.com/images/...DSCCurrent.JPG
http://www.electronicsam.com/images/KandT/oldkandt.JPG
This is a kerney & trecker horizontal machining center. It is named the Milwaukee matic IIIb. We had gotten it for the price of scrap maybe 15 years ago. Thought we could make it work and did. It has a GE controller on it that is all discrete components. Yes discrete components: ). It worked quite well for the past 15 years but finally died. It had linear and circular inturp up to 9.9999 inches (which wasn't that great but worked)
It has a 60-tool chain. 38"X36"X24" travel. Table that indexes at 5 degree increments. It has Ball screws through-out and tikko(sp) ways (think re-circulating roller bearings for way bearings)
Emc2 will be a nice match - it has ladder logic built in to do some of the tedious things like pallet and tool changes.
Right now it has hydraulic servos but the plan is to replace them with these or similar
http://www.electronicsam.com/images/KandT/DSC_0242.JPG
The emc group has done something similar to a mazak
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emc....pl?MazakRetro
also
http://webpages.charter.net/bengvall...onversion.html
sam