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- Joined
- Feb 20, 2013
- Location
- Houston TX
Responded to a craigslist ad for 24x120 Pacemaker sitting out in the weeds and ended up in a deal getting literal truck loads of surplus machine and misc stuff.
This Marathon SL320 was part of that deal. I was told that it was running when taken off the line, but the management decided that a newer Hass should replace it.
I got the machine for free. I was originally planning on just taking it straight to scrap. But when I saw the machine in person, it had a chuck, material in the chuck, tools in the turret and didn't look like it had been crashed.
The foreman told me that the machine had recently been serviced and despite being very ugly was a good machine. I didn't really believe him.
The machine had sat outside unprotected for about two months before I got ahold of it. Then I had to store it outside under a tarp on timbers until I had a building to put it in.
Finally ran power to it this last weekend, hooked it up, not expecting much. But the darn thing seemed to have some life and would do some stuff.
I'm powering it with a 100 amps from a 40hp RPC. Could not see any indications if it needed 440 or 220, I only have 220 and seemed to work on that.
Was low on hydraulic and way oil. It's very slow to add hydraulic oil for some reason, I think a screen is plugged up or something, so it's still low, but in the safe range.
I wasn't really doing much to the machine, know next to nothing about CNCs, the guy helping me was pushing the buttons. The most we could do was get the turret to spin, and some error codes would come up.
The batteries still have voltage, we could pull up what I think were the machine parameters and even part of a program.
So my questions are;
If this thing needs air, here would the hook up typicality be? Looked all over the machine and could not find anything.
And do ya'll have any ideas on these error codes? I'm not bad with computers and electrical stuff, but inexperienced.
It kept saying "not ready" at the bottom left of the screen in red letters. Could that be related to low oil and no air.
If this thing needs air, about much for a lathe this size?
Here are the pictures from last weekend. What are ya'll opinions?4
Marathon SL32 by mebunting | Photobucket
This Marathon SL320 was part of that deal. I was told that it was running when taken off the line, but the management decided that a newer Hass should replace it.
I got the machine for free. I was originally planning on just taking it straight to scrap. But when I saw the machine in person, it had a chuck, material in the chuck, tools in the turret and didn't look like it had been crashed.
The foreman told me that the machine had recently been serviced and despite being very ugly was a good machine. I didn't really believe him.
The machine had sat outside unprotected for about two months before I got ahold of it. Then I had to store it outside under a tarp on timbers until I had a building to put it in.
Finally ran power to it this last weekend, hooked it up, not expecting much. But the darn thing seemed to have some life and would do some stuff.
I'm powering it with a 100 amps from a 40hp RPC. Could not see any indications if it needed 440 or 220, I only have 220 and seemed to work on that.
Was low on hydraulic and way oil. It's very slow to add hydraulic oil for some reason, I think a screen is plugged up or something, so it's still low, but in the safe range.
I wasn't really doing much to the machine, know next to nothing about CNCs, the guy helping me was pushing the buttons. The most we could do was get the turret to spin, and some error codes would come up.
The batteries still have voltage, we could pull up what I think were the machine parameters and even part of a program.
So my questions are;
If this thing needs air, here would the hook up typicality be? Looked all over the machine and could not find anything.
And do ya'll have any ideas on these error codes? I'm not bad with computers and electrical stuff, but inexperienced.
It kept saying "not ready" at the bottom left of the screen in red letters. Could that be related to low oil and no air.
If this thing needs air, about much for a lathe this size?
Here are the pictures from last weekend. What are ya'll opinions?4
Marathon SL32 by mebunting | Photobucket