Hello,
I recently purchased an old Acra mill with an Anilam Crusader M control (3 Axis). Everything seems in good shape and the control seems to work fine. So far we have machined a few relatively complex plates. I have the control sending and receiving programs from a laptop - all of which are programmed at the control thus far.
My problem is with holding zero on the Z axis. We set X, Y, Z zero then start setting the tool offsets. Somewhere in moving around we go to start the program and Z zero will change. Sometimes way off, sometimes .300 off. I figured that somewhere along the line we were switching tool offsets and maybe then resetting zero on the wrong tool offset. But we just ran one part, 4 tools all worked fine. moved around a little to put the next part on (same program) and next thing you know Z is all the way up and reading -2.2289 its driving us mad... its like if we turn our back on the machine z changes. never had an issue with the X or Y changing.
Any advice on this old machine and finicky control would be appreciated.
Thank you
clint
I recently purchased an old Acra mill with an Anilam Crusader M control (3 Axis). Everything seems in good shape and the control seems to work fine. So far we have machined a few relatively complex plates. I have the control sending and receiving programs from a laptop - all of which are programmed at the control thus far.
My problem is with holding zero on the Z axis. We set X, Y, Z zero then start setting the tool offsets. Somewhere in moving around we go to start the program and Z zero will change. Sometimes way off, sometimes .300 off. I figured that somewhere along the line we were switching tool offsets and maybe then resetting zero on the wrong tool offset. But we just ran one part, 4 tools all worked fine. moved around a little to put the next part on (same program) and next thing you know Z is all the way up and reading -2.2289 its driving us mad... its like if we turn our back on the machine z changes. never had an issue with the X or Y changing.
Any advice on this old machine and finicky control would be appreciated.
Thank you
clint